Fintan O’Toole: i documenti ufficiali stanno tranquillamente scomparendo dai siti Web dipartimentali. Perché?

>In [George Orwell’s](https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-orwell/) 1984, Winston’s job is making awkward documents and reports disappear down the “memory hole”: “Day by day and almost minute by minute, the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct …”

>The Irish Civil Service appears to be implementing the suitably Orwellian practice of “unpublishing”. The past is being “brought up to date” through the disappearance – deliberate or otherwise – of official documents from departmental websites……………………