Michael McDowell

“let’s go on a journey and forget about the destination – the destination isn’t really important in that respect”

Pete Baker on July 21, 2010, 10:47 pm | Readers 8

Former Irish Minister for Justice and Progressive Democrats leader Michael McDowell’s call for the 12th July to be an Irish national holiday makes a cheap, and easy, headline for the RTÉ report. And there may be video from the MacGill Summer School where he made the call. But the RTÉ report also hints at what else he had to say Mr McDowell said that if we were genuine republicans and if the orange panel in the flag meant anything, then …

A step too far by McDowell?

George on December 13, 2005, 5:44 pm | Readers 32

Justice Feargus Flood, chairman of the Centre for Public Inquiry, has come out in support to the group’s executive director, Frank Connolly. In an interview on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said that every citizen is entitled to a presumption of innocence until proven otherwise in a court of law (Audio file available at bottom of article). The comments follow Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell’s admission that he supplied documents to the Irish Independent for their story on allegations that Frank …