Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Free Trial - Politico.ie

Politico.ie is Ireland's foremost current affairs and political website with a digital archive of prominent Irish magazines published from 1968 to the present day.

The archive includes:

Politico.ie articles (2009 - to date)
Village Magazine (2004-2008)
Magill (1977 - 1998)
Nusight (1968 - 1970)
Lookleft (2010-2011)
Changing Ireland (2001 - to date)
Voice of the Traveller (2008 - 2010)

Politico also hosts CrisisJam and BudgetJam, interventions in political debate to which academics, journalists and activists contribute on a regular basis. BudgetJam is a concerted intervention during Budget week involving a daily live blog.

As an added feature, Politico contains a Politicians Database containing the latest news, tweets, and Oireachtas contributions of elected representatives. This database also contains salary and expense details of sitting TDs along with pertinent articles from the entire archive on Politico. The Database for the 31st Dail and Seanad is being updated: here is the database for the last Dail, and a sample profile.

In addition, Politico boasts a large and active following on social media where topical issues and articles are hotly debated. Fair Comment is a popular space within the website itself where readers are invited to publish topical opinion pieces.

Go to http://www.politico.ie/ to access this free trial.

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