Welcome to the latest story on CACI & the Irish Census. I am finding it somewhat difficult to stay on top of this as my only source of keeping up with what is being said in the Dáil is the Oireachtas website….
read on for the latest storified report..
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I interviewed Pádraig MacLochlainn of Sinn Féin yesterday evening, after he kindly called me back following my enquiry into CACI & the CSO Census contracts.
This is the full 20 minute interview which he gave to to me in our telephone conversation. I would like to again thank Pádraig for agreeing to do this at such short notice.
Listen here.. (audio player is not working currently.. click on link to open mp3 directly or alt click to download)
Interview with Pádraig MacLochlainn re CSO / CACI
If I get a chance I will make an edited version of this…
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Here is a short story which is part of a bigger story, I am currently in the process of developing as a documentary film…
This looks at the history of copyright and goes right back to the Hill of Tara where the High King rules against St. Colmcille
“To every cow its calf and to every book its copy.”
Colmcille’s later work, The Book of Kells, now has a copyright question hanging over it….
This is the third census that CACI have been involved in here in Ireland. The first in 2002 after the 2001 census was postponed due to foot and mouth disease, when we were busy counting (dead) sheep. The second census CACI worked on was in 2006. Also in this story… former Fianna Fáil Chief Whip has website hacked…