rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/free-assange-ireland-webinar?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-free-assange-ireland-webinar' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> World BEYOND War https://actionnetwork.org/groups/world-beyond-war https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg MICHAEL CLIFFORD is an Irish author and investigative journalist currently working as a special correspondent with The Irish Examiner. He was awarded the title "Journalist of the Year" in 2016, having won acclaim for his work in exposing the smear campaign against Irish police whistleblower Maurice McCabe by senior members of the Garda Síochána. In 2014, TV3's Tonight with Vincent Browne named him "Journalist of the Year" for his work on the McCabe story. He has also written in the newspaper referencing and highlighting the case of Julian Assange. In 2018, he called for an investigation into the Irish Prison Service, having claimed "that a serving prison officer has made certain claims in a sworn affidavit to the Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan about methods used to stem the suspected flow of drugs and mobile phones into prisons – by prisoners and prison officers". Michael Clifford has written four books; the non-fiction "Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia" (2012, with Shane Coleman), "A Force for Justice: The Maurice McCabe Story" (2018), and two crime novels; "Ghost Town" was published in 2012. He lives in Dublin. TIM DAWSON is a British journalist and the author of several books. He writes regularly for national newspapers and magazines and produces audio visual packages for a variety of organisations. For twenty years, he wrote weekly for The Sunday Times and was a section editor on that paper for over a decade.   He also undertakes work as a photographer, trainer, speaker, conference chair and facilitator, a PR, a copywriter, and an event and project manager. Tim has been a member of the executive of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) since the late 1990s and served as the union's president between 2016 and 2018. Early this year he observed the Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange on behalf of the NUJ. He currently convenes the International Federation of Journalists expert group on the surveillance of journalists. He regularly speaks at major public events including recent meetings at the Palace of Westminster, the European Parliament and the Trades Union Congress. https://actionnetwork.org/events/free-assange-ireland-webinar