Meeting again this Saturday, Exchange Dublin at 4pm

All welcome, come on down and fly your flag!

Well 2009 came and went without much happening for most but for all of us Pirates here in Ireland it brought with it the founding of the Irish Pirate Party. Already we have over 130 members and with any luck by this time next year we will have the full amount needed to register officially and we will be well on our way to making this country a more free and pleasant place to live.

This was sent to the PP mailing list and as a mark of respect for the late Florian Hufsky I decided to put it up here so that if anyone knew him that they can pay tribute.

Today ex Pirate Bay public relations officer Peter Sunde has accused the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN of falsifying evidence submitted to the Dutch court as part of BREIN's case against the Pirate Bay.

Well to cut a long story short we are finally putting together workgroups to help nail down the types of policies we will be following as a party. If anyone wishes to help out please contact us via the contact page here on the site or via this thread in the forum.

Its been a crazy couple of weeks now and I thought I'd take a moment to say a few words to all of our supporters.

We have had a good few people signing up to the party and I'd like to thank all of these people for their support. We are still a long way from getting registered but we are slowly getting there. There have been a few new members that I couldn't find the time to email back personally so I think I'll just make an overall response here. Welcome all of you to the party. Its nice to have you aboard.

Its nice to see SR giving a few minutes to help air our views. SR is a great source for tech news and we are glad that such an esteemed group decided to cover our first press release. Here is the article in question:

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/13692/comms/pirate-party-hit...

Well here it is. Small bit on the issues with Eircom and IRMA with some statements from myself and also from Dick Doyle of IRMA and others.

Its also on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_g9Ggn0SZ0

You can also download it directly here

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 24, 2009

The Pirate Party is deeply concerned by news that eircom is to block access from its subscribers to thepiratebay.org. The Pirate bay is a website that provides listings of content hosted by people all around the world that can be searched and downloaded via peer-to-peer technology. It hosts absolutely no copyrighted material itself, only links.

In light of the recent Eircom announcements to block the Pirate Bay from September 1st, Matt Cooper invited Dick Doyle, Director General of IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association) and Swedish Piratpartiet MEP Christian Engström to debate the issues on TodayFM's The Last Word.