Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday
Everyone’s talking about the government asking Facebook for users’ information and intervention in Syria.
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Everyone’s talking about the government asking Facebook for users’ information and intervention in Syria.
Financial service providers who have at least three complaints against them substantiated will be named by the Financial Sevices Ombudsman.
Brendan Howlin was responding to the criticism of the banks by the Financial Ombudsman yesterday.
4,676 complaints were made by customers between January and June of this year.
Group claims Twitter “allowed a homophobic atmosphere to develop” on the social media site in France – and is filing a complaint for incitement to hatred.
Over €62,000 in monetary penalties were imposed on gardaí found to be in breach last year.
Twenty-one complaints were upheld by the ASAI, Ireland’s advertising watchdog, in it’s latest complaints bulletin.
That’s an increase of 12 per cent between 2011 and 2012, according to the council’s annual report.
Garda Ombudsman Commission received more than 2,000 complaints last year.
The man is in his 60s and was arrested in Waterford City today.
An official report outlines some of the customer complaints upheld against energy providers last year.
A complaint about an Ireland AM segment on abortion was also upheld.
The latest batch of broadcasting complaints includes five against Psychic Readings Live, with three upheld in full or in part.
Figure show that 40 per cent of all banking complaints related to mortgages.
The amendments have been described as a “major step forward” by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.
After a numbers of complaints, producers have decided to cancel TV3′s Psychics Readings Live.
Complaints range from not having a personal light and TV switch, censored phone calls, “screaming” prison mates and cold coffee.
One of the complaints was made against a presenter’s comments who stated as fact that a woman’s home would burn down but it would be OK, because insurance would cover it.
The Trinity College Dublin entertainment society pulled the Facebook competition, apologising to anyone offended by it.
Tonya Cooley alleged that she had been attacked by fellow contestants but Hollywood Reporter says the case has been settled.
The two urinals designed by female Dutch artist Meike van Schijndel, which resemble a woman’s lipsticked mouth, are to be removed after being labelled “an example of misogyny”.
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On two occasions, on-air psychics discussed the health of callers in breach of the General Commercial Communications Code.
3,700 people lodged complaints with Bill Prasifka’s office in the first half of 2012 – a 5 per cent increase in last year.
Air passengers complaints amounted to half of the total number of cases where the ECC liaised with traders directly on behalf of customers.
While overall level of complaints fell in 2011, the Commission for Aviation Regulation says number coming under its responsibility grew.
Legislation restricts the Financial Services Ombudsman from dealing with any complaints from non-Ulster Bank customers who were affected by the ‘technical glitch’.
Ads for the 48 mobile network and a hangover cure have been shot down by the ASAI.
The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission says it received 2,275 complaints last year, with more than one third relating to abuse of authority by gardaí.
A total of 380 complaints about doctors were received by the Medical Council last year.
BAI upheld part of complaint which said that ad concerning prostitution in Ireland was directed towards a ‘political end’.
The annual report of the Press Council of Ireland and the Press Ombudsman was launched in Dublin today with the Leveson inquiry featuring heavily.
Around one in 16 children do not feel safe at their school, according to a new survey.
Billy Hawkes said his office received 1,161 complaints for investigation last year.
The Central Bank says there has been a 100 per cent increase in complaints from the public about unauthorised investment firms.
The GSOC is to investigate the handling of complaints of sex abuse against a Fr Corin, about which concerns were raised in the Cloyne Report.
The insurance firm had breached the Consumer Protection Code on a number of occasions between 2007 and 2011.
The Garda Ombudsman is reviewing a complaint concerning the treatment of protesters during the recent official visit of China’s Vice President to Ireland.