UCC Online Jean Monnet Lecture Series 'The EU and the Dangers of Disinformation, Dark Money and Dirty Politics' by Peter Geoghegan & Neale Richmond

16 Apr 2021

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Department of Government and Politics

UCC Online Jean Monnet Lecture Series 

The EU and the Dangers of Disinformation, Dark Money and Dirty Politics

Peter Geoghegan, Writer and Journalist 

Neale Richmond TD 

3–4.15pm Thursday 22^nd April 2021

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This month’s UCC Jean Monnet Lecture will explore the impact of disinformation, dark money and dirty politics on national and EU politics and political systems. Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics, will discuss the link between ‘dark money’ and disinformation, and speak about its impact on the UK’s Brexit referendum campaign and on the process of the UK’s exit process from the EU. Neale Richmond TD will discuss the challenges of limiting and containing the influence of disinformation groups, and will speak, in particular, about his efforts to confront the attempts of the pro-Brexit campaign group, Leave.eu, to migrate the registered office for its website to Ireland in order to retain its ‘.eu’ internet address.

Peter Geoghegan is an Irish writer, broadcaster and investigations editor at the award-winning news website openDemocracy. He led openDemocracy's investigations into dark money in British politics that were nominated for a 2019 British Journalism award and the Paul Foot award. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and many other publications. His last book, Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics was published last August and was a Sunday Times bestseller.

Neale Richmond is the Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown and party spokesperson on European Affairs. He has previously served as a County Councillor, Leader of the Irish delegation in the Committee of the Regions and as a Senator where he Chaired the Brexit Committee. A graduate of UCD (BA History, MA Politics), he has a professional background as a Parliamentary Assistant and Project Manager.

The event will be held on Zoom. For further information please contact: maryc.murphy@ucc.ie. 

This Lecture series is supported by the Erasmus + Jean Monnet programme.

For more on this story contact:

Dr Mary C. Murphy

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork

Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration 

President, Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies www.iaces.ie

Department of Government & Politics

University College Cork