Politics.ie

Politics.ie

Politics.ie

Irish political forum

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][unreliable source?]

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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.[citation needed]

Technical issues

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

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. [1]
    "Pie Media Limited". www.solocheck.ie. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Auctioneer settles action against Politics.ie website". The Irish Times. 4 April 2010.
  3. [3]
    "Has politics.ie closed down ?". www.boards.ie. 27 September 2008. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. [4]
    "threads/so-p-ie-dies-again.25905/page-50". Retrieved 15 June 2021. [dead link]


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