IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Dearbhail McDonald and Fiach Kelly
Saturday November 10 2012
THE Government was forced to shut its children referendum website for a second time — despite a Supreme Court ruling that “extensive passages” in its booklet and website were not “fair, equal or impartial”.
The website was shut down for several hours last Thursday following the Supreme Court decision, an embarrassing setback for the State which has set off a blame game within Government about how its €1.1m information campaign went wrong.
The website, www.childrensreferendum.ie, was back online within hours — this time including only “basic information” on the wording and outlining the scheme of the adoption bill.
But Chief State Solicitor Eileen Creedon had to make arrangements with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DYCA) for the website to be taken offline again yesterday after further complaints by engineer Mark McCrystal, who successfully challenged the Government’s information campaign.
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