No Irish media with access to Wikileaks cables?

seanp_25

Are there any Irish media organisations with access to the entire cache of Wikileaks cables?

The first phase of the Wikileaks cablegate releases where only 5 select organisations had access is long gone. As of 3 weeks ago, there were 50 organisations in 29 countries with access: http://wikileaks.ch/Media-Currently-Publishing.html , and many more have been added since. Ireland is a notable exception.

And that's only the list of the organisations approved by Wikileaks, others have gotten access through other means (like just a few days ago, Greek media getting a copy of the cables from the Norwegian paper Aftenposten: http://wlcentral.org/node/1504 )

Surely any Irish news outlet worth it's salt should be requesting access to these cables? There are 910 from the Dublin embassy in the trove, and only 4 of these have been published publically so far. In one of them it came out that Dermot Ahern was convinced that US rendition flights went through Shannon, and that Ireland was in violation of torture conventions.

I'm sure there is plenty more stuff in the public interest in the other 906 cables: You can see the tags used to describe all 910 Dublin cables here: http://www.cablegatesearch.net/uorigin.php?oid=59

I think it's worth asking journalists and editors at Irish media organisations if they have an interest in obtaining these.

expectationlost

the guardian did do a search for shannon/rendition/troops transports

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/13/wikileaks-latest-developments#block-6

and also looked for mention of the shell corrib gas issue http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/22/you-ask-we-search-december-22

maybe that's it but theres probably more about the "economic friendship"

no irish paper made any effort to work with wikileaks to gain access to the records after they were announced,

I said from the start it was mistake for wikileaks to try and partner with newspaper to spread out the column inches, look at them now, cables still trickling out in other countries but mostly just bickering with the guardian. they should release them all at once.

the IT's mary fitzgerald congratulated herself for covering the keywords of the cables and getting a no comment from officials here and then she was off on her adventures to pakistan but she can't seem to see any connection between the two stories.

seanp_25

Irish Independent: http://twitter.com/#!/fionnansheahan/status/75290599019913216

micro_dot

Going through it today, it just confirms the idea that we are not run in our own best interests.
I remember reading in the Guardian about a leaked Shell boast that they had insiders in the Nigerian goverment, and I wondered who would be their insiders over here (considering the deal they got). Today I realise how cheap we sell ourselves, over and over again.

expectationlost

micro_dot wrote: »

Going through it today, it just confirms the idea that we are not run in our own best interests.
I remember reading in the Guardian about a leaked Shell boast that they had insiders in the Nigerian goverment, and I wondered who would be their insiders over here (considering the deal they got). Today I realise how cheap we sell ourselves, over and over again.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/wikileaks/wikileaks-the-irish-independent-lifts-the-veil-of-diplomatic-secrecy-via-1903-us-embassy-cables-2661629.html

there's your list; members of the cabinet that have participated in
Department of State international Visitors Programme
Mary Coughlan, Dick Roche, Mary Harney, Seamus Brennan

very surprised to hear they didn't pay for them

some of full cables posted here
http://wikileaks.org/origin/113_0.html