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Politics.ie
Type of site
discussion boards
Available inEnglish, Irish
URLhttp://www.politics.ie

Politics.ie is an Irish internet discussion forum. It was founded by David Cochrane. The site was owned by Pie Media Ltd. David Cochrane resigned as director in August 2012. Pie Media Limited dissolved with the company closing on Wednesday the 22nd of April 2015.[1]

The site's membership is diverse and includes a number of activists across the political spectrum, students, politicians, journalists and other people involved in the media. Most contributors are anonymous.

Michael Daly took legal action against David Cochrane in a case involving libel.[2] An injunction was granted, and David Cochrane acknowledged the inaccuracy of the content posted on Politics.ie.

Technical issues

The site went offline for a period in July/August 2018. [3]

Intermittent technical problems continued throughout Q4 2018 and into 2019. In mid February 2019 A serious anomaly occurred resulting in the websites link to the forum software breaking so the server returned the file listing of the web root directory. This resulted in the hosting provider suspending the Account. [4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/Pie-Media-Limited-483403
  2. ^ "Auctioneer settles action against Politics.ie website". The Irish Times. 4 April 2010.
  3. ^ https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=107696384
  4. ^ https://www.politicalirish.com/threads/so-p-ie-dies-again.25905/page-50