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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 »

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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 »

TIMES SUBVERSIVES?

January 23, 2025

HAS THE Irish Times editor’s office been infiltrated by those Sinn Féin subversives? Last week the comparison was uncanny between the newspaper’s editorial... Read more »

FOREIGN SPIES IN IRELAND

January 23, 2025

ANOTHER CORKER from Sunday Times security correspondent John Mooney recently told of the “United Front Work Department (UFWD), a shadowy Chinese agency” that... Read more »

MAYOR BLAIN’S MEDIA EXPOSURE

January 9, 2025

NEWLY ELECTED Dublin lord mayor Emma Blain recently told readers of the Sunday Independent, her old employer, that people should “get over” her... Read more »

VIRGIN MEDIA’S NEWS BLACKOUT

January 9, 2025

THE GOVERNMENT’S refusal to accede to Virgin Media’s demand for a slice of the licence fee when it bailed out RTÉ last year... Read more »

JOHN ‘UNIONIST’ BRUTON

January 9, 2025

IRISH TIMES revisionism of national politics and modern history is one thing but revising the message purveyed in its own newspaper is pushing... Read more »

WHATEVER YOU SAY…

December 12, 2024

THE RECENTLY released Disney+ film, Say Nothing, has resurrected the usual controversy about Gerry Adams’s alleged involvement in the killing and disappearance of... Read more »

DUBLIN’S KRISTALLNACHT

December 12, 2024

DUBLIN HAS become afflicted by “rising antisemitism”, according to a recent headline and article in the Irish Times. The article focused on a... Read more »

CANTERBURY TALES

November 28, 2024

THE IRISH TIMES published a perfunctory article on the recent resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. This followed a report blaming... Read more »

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IN PRAISE OF JEREMY CLARKSON

November 28, 2024

IS THERE a common thread between reactionary bumpkin Jeremy Clarkson’s campaign against inheritance tax and that of Alan Shatter’s general election campaign based... Read more »

TROUBLE AT T’MILL

November 28, 2024

EVER SINCE The Irish Times Ltd managing director Deirdre Veldon wandered through the newsroom of the galley slaves who toil in the company’s... Read more »

‘VEXATIOUS’ LITIGANTS

November 14, 2024

FOLLOWING THE Irish Times front-page story headlined “Vexatious claimants ‘making a mockery’ of courts”, the newspaper declined to give Cormac Butler, a consultant... Read more »

CORK WAGE SLAVES REBEL

November 14, 2024

LAST CHRISTMAS the south Dublin proletariat at the Irish Times made angry noises about the austerity imposed on them due to losses at... Read more »

ANNUAL 2024: PRINT LEGACY HAUNTS IRISH PUBLISHERS

November 14, 2024

ESTABLISHED BEFORE the internet age, the lofty Irish Times Trust has long declaimed the newspaper as some sort of trailblazer for taking a... Read more »

Ó FEARGHAÍL’S PA: ISRAEL SHOCK JOCK

October 31, 2024

KILKENNY COMMUNITY RADIO listeners are privileged to regularly receive the views of intense supporter of Israel, presenter and producer Eugene Doyle, although his... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S RETURN

October 31, 2024

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English will be relieved to welcome back former minister and long-time Sindo columnist Shane Ross after an absence since... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ BRICS IT

October 31, 2024

A SORROWFUL tone pervaded an Irish Times editorial last week regarding the Brics summit in Russia, with the first half of the tract... Read more »

BRIT SPIES TARGET RUSSIAN SPIES

October 17, 2024

THE SUNDAY TIMES has over-reached itself with that story about a Putin “agent in the Oireachtas”. Stories about the use of a honeytrap... Read more »

ISRAEL’S ALLIES

October 17, 2024

ISRAELI DIPLOMATS and PR spinners are aghast at the Irish response to the carnage in Gaza but they may have been pleasantly surprised... Read more »

MATT’S MIGHTY MOOLAH

September 19, 2024

FILLING IN for Pat Kenny recently on his Newstalk morning show, Ivan Yates titillated listeners with the exciting news that his long-time colleague,... Read more »

ONLY CATHOLICS ABUSE CHILDREN

September 19, 2024

MOST ABUSE survivors surely could not have been taken in by the restrictive terms of reference in the scoping inquiry to determine the... Read more »

TICKING OFF TIKTOK

September 5, 2024

WITH THE ongoing saga of justice minister Helen McEntee’s on again, off again hate speech bill – or, to give its formal title,... Read more »

McCAFFERTY TRIBUTES

September 5, 2024

GUSHING TRIBUTES to the late Nell McCafferty from most media were carefully phrased to avoid referencing her instinctive Republicanism. But RTÉ was especially... Read more »

ABUSE STORIES CENSORED

September 5, 2024

When Greystones native Simon Harris was elected Taoiseach, former residents of the town’s Protestant Westbank Orphanage asked him to accept a twice-expressed Mother... Read more »

‘COOL KID’ BRENDAN O’CONNOR

August 22, 2024

RTÉ AND Sunday Independent front-page commentator Brendan O’Connor clearly felt the need to reinvent himself as a man with empathy when he moved... Read more »

GARDA INTEL FEARS

August 22, 2024

NATIONAL SECURITY fears were issued via the media and its supportive crime journalists late last year when the punitive pension tax bills facing... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORS

August 22, 2024

COVERAGE OF the recent conviction of prolific child abuser Derry O’Rourke in the Irish Times was a commendable, warranted catalogue of outrage against... Read more »

THE ‘CURRENCY’ AND ‘WEIRD’ INM REPORT

August 8, 2024

THE ENORMOUSLY expensive (€5.67m) and lengthy (six years) High Court inspectors’ report into various goings-on at Independent News & Media (INM) has laboured... Read more »

FIONNUALA ON EDNA O’BRIEN

August 8, 2024

IRISH TIMES columnist Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond wisely decided to choose the New Statesman rather than her weekly Irish platform for a treatise on... Read more »

IT’S NOT CRICKET

July 25, 2024

ONE OF the most enduring lines peddled by post peace process British securocrats, and enthusiastically relayed by the UK and Dublin media’s security... Read more »