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VERONICA GUERIN AND THE ‘SINDO’

July 10, 2025

FORMER SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Anne Harris’s recent article in the Currency, about the murder 29 years ago of Sindo star journalist Veronica Guerin,... Read more »

BBC AND KINCORA

July 10, 2025

FOLLOWING THE Gerry Adams disaster, another distinction earned by the BBC in its coverage of the Troubles came with last month’s settlement of... Read more »

LEO’S LINE

July 10, 2025

THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times is usually kept on a tight editorial leash by the chaps (and gals) in London at... Read more »

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE

June 26, 2025

DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL, the ego-child of David McWilliams, came around this month with little danger of anyone in the literary and media establishment... Read more »

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GABIJA’S BARISTA BOMBSHELL!

June 26, 2025

AS IF Government TDs did not have enough to put up with as voters whine about housing, it emerges that they are also... Read more »

DAY OF THE SQUIRE

June 26, 2025

RECENTLY DECEASED Freddie Forsyth, the author of The Day of the Jackal and other bestsellers, revealed in his 2015 biography, The Outsider, that... Read more »

CONFLICTS AT DE PAPER(S)

June 12, 2025

CORK’S ATTACHMENT to ‘de paper’ may soon be realised literally as one of de two newspapers, the Irish Examiner and the Echo, could... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ CRIES HALT IN GAZA

June 12, 2025

AMONG THOSE scrambling to get onside with the increasing revulsion at the slaughter in Gaza is the Irish Times, which recently editorialised against... Read more »

MICHAEL GAINE MURDER ‘SUSPECT’

May 29, 2025

KERRY-BASED American Michael Kelley, who was arrested on suspicion of murdering Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine and who gave an interview to the Irish... Read more »

RTÉ BLANKS GAZA PROTESTS

May 29, 2025

THE ANGUISH of RTÉ luvvies over a private firm being hired to produce an advert for RTÉ News in a simulated newsroom –... Read more »

GAZA REVISITED

May 29, 2025

IT’S HARD to single out the most brazen U-turn on Gaza by those who might now be anxious about having endorsed – by... Read more »

LOW-COST MEDIA FREEDOM

May 15, 2025
UNSURPRISINGLY, THERE has been little or no media coverage of the pay-outs to media organisations recently from the Government or, rather, the taxpayers’ largely... Read more »

CLARE DALY V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

May 15, 2025

GOLDHAWK PREDICTED as far back as 2022 that then MEP Clare Daly would come for those sections of the media that had, as... Read more »

FUNDING GREAT BRITISH NEWS

May 15, 2025

IRISH TAXPAYERS will be equally happy – in the spirit of our shared island and its history – to learn that the Government’s... Read more »

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DISAPPEARED STORY

May 1, 2025

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the crusade that began in January, when the Sunday Times launched its Forgotten Graves campaign to grant a proper burial... Read more »

THE LATE LATE SHOW

May 1, 2025

AN APPARENTLY non-descript and rather short story, informing Irish Times readers that Denis O’Brien had received nearly €6m for his Moriarty Tribunal legal... Read more »

NO TO ‘IRISH TIMES’!

May 1, 2025

A DISAPPOINTED Irish Times was recently compelled to report that voters favoured retention of neutrality by over 2:1 but the good news for... Read more »

MORE ‘SINDO’ FALL-OUT

April 17, 2025

THE ASCENT of new Sunday Independent editor Liz Kearney from highly proficient sub-editor to the top job at the country’s biggest-selling newspaper completes... Read more »

DEIRDRE VELDON’S BLURRED VISION

April 17, 2025

Last weekend’s Sunday Times saw Deirdre Veldon – the €270,000-a-year MD of the Irish Times group – deny that Irish news publishers are... Read more »

TOP GARDA ‘SECURITY’ THREAT

April 17, 2025

THE IRISH Times reported last weekend on the “unprecedented… crisis” due to the ongoing pension tax anomaly that will see any senior Garda... Read more »

ISRAELI SOLDIERS – THE REAL VICTIMS

April 3, 2025

THE WAVE of antisemitic terror sweeping across Ireland, which the Irish Times and other media have been courageously exposing, has reached appalling levels... Read more »

EU WARRIORS ON THE RETREAT?

April 3, 2025

HAVE DIVISIONS among the European shock troops limbering up to confront Putin’s Russia caused some to have second thoughts? This disappointing retreat from... Read more »

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VICTIMISING MUSK

April 3, 2025

Sir, I was disappointed to read your article in the Phoenix titled “X marks the drop in standards” because I... Read more »

PAUL TWEED’S MIDDLE EAST ROW

March 20, 2025

EVEN LAWYER to the stars Paul Tweed can claim to have suffered collateral damage in the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Tweed... Read more »

OLD BAILEY

March 20, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised that the Sunday Independent did not put on its front page Senan Molony’s scoop last weekend about a breakthrough in... Read more »

TONE-DEAF ‘IRISH TIMES’

March 20, 2025

THE IRISH TIMES last week published a letter from History Ireland editor Tommy Graham, who was questioning Trinity College Dublin for the controlled... Read more »

‘SINDO’ EXODUS

March 6, 2025

THE EXIT of senior hacks from Mediahuis, or more particularly the Sunday Independent, has left the Sindo bereft of experienced editors at the... Read more »

GLOBAL TITLES FIGHT

March 6, 2025

THE HEAVYWEIGHT title contest between various media combatants will take place in London next month at the 2025 Newspaper Awards – open to... Read more »

GARY MURPHY’S HISTORY LESSON

March 6, 2025

AMIDST AN avalanche of war cries from otherwise sober columnists and academics about the need for Ireland to tool up and join the... Read more »

ENGLISH THE LATEST IN ‘SINDO’ EXODUS

February 20, 2025

THE ANODYNE clichés that departing Sunday Independent editor Alan English delivered to explain his sudden resignation, in a most accommodating interview with The... Read more »

ALISON O’CONNOR’S GAZA GUFF

February 20, 2025

AMID THE welter of approval from media ‘adults in the room’ (current code for Government supporters) for the Government’s abandonment of the Occupied... Read more »

HELPFUL HACKS

February 20, 2025

THE WINNING roles played in the election campaign by ex-political press hacks Sarah Bardon and Ciara Phelan in policing the media as official... Read more »

UNSIGHTLY SCENES AT IRISH TIMES

February 6, 2025

JIM O’CALLAGHAN, now the justice minister, led the charge against the tents housing asylum seekers that sprouted up outside the International Protection Office... Read more »

OFFIDE SUNDAY TIMES

February 6, 2025

THROUGH GRITTED teeth English rugby commentators conceded that their team was well beaten by the Aawrish last Saturday. Even MI5’s favourite newspaper, the... Read more »

IRISH TIMES WARRIORS

February 6, 2025

THE PILE-ON against neutrality and for a serious increase in military expenditure is a sacred mission for the western jihadists in the Irish... Read more »

BIG PHIL’S LAMENT

January 23, 2025

THE MOST original – contrarian even – critique of Michael Lowry’s central role in the creation of the new government came in the... Read more »