Description
Book SynopsisTraces Ireland’s introduction of FOI legislation and considers its use and operation from a series of perspectives, looking at the Irish experience in a truly international context
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Maura Adshead and Tom Felle
1. International trends in freedom of information – Nat O’Connor
2. Two steps forward and one step back: political culture and FOI – Maura Adshead
3. Freedom of information and national security: where’s the harm in that? – Jennifer Kavanagh
4. Freedom of information and policing: still a very secret service – Richard Dowling
5. FOI and public trust in parliament – Mark Mulqueen
6. Freedom of information and the media – a case of delay, deny, defeat? – Conor Ryan
7. A glass half full or half empty? Citizens’ experiences with FOI – Tom Felle and Gavin Sheridan
8. Reflections on freedom of information: past, present and future – Eithne FitzGerald, John Carroll and Peter Tyndall
Conclusion – Maura Adshead, Tom Felle and Nat O’Connor
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