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‘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 »

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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 »

‘MY CHURCH, RIGHT OR WRONG’

July 25, 2024

Last December, The Irish Times published a statement from the Church of Ireland in a report by Arthur Beesley saying that it “neither owned nor operated”... Read more »

DOUBLE STANDARDS AT THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

July 11, 2024
JUSTIFIABLY, AND admirably, newspapers, and TV and radio programmes reported and commented on the recent suspended sentence for soldier Cathal Crotty, who viciously assaulted... Read more »

ULSTER-SCOTS’ PR

July 11, 2024

TIME WAS when one of the few unionists to see positive benefits in the peace process was ludicrous Lord Laird, who milked the... Read more »

RTÉ TOLD: DO MORE WITH LESS

July 11, 2024
RTÉ’s decision to outsource Fair City and The Late Late Show to outside production companies has been greeted with anger by Montrose trade unions... Read more »

IAN KEHOE’S ‘CURRENCY’ RATE

June 27, 2024

SIGNS ARE that Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, joint owners of digital financial publication the Currency, are intent on selling their company, judging... Read more »

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CLARE DALY AND THE ‘IT’

June 27, 2024

IS THE Irish Times worried that many readers recognise that its hounding of Dublin MEP Clare Daly helped to unseat her and nearly... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS SHEDS HACKS

June 27, 2024

AS MEDIAHUIS continues to cut a swathe through its workforce, the genial, soft-spoken Mediahuis chief executive, Peter Vandermeersch, has been issuing soothing statements... Read more »

MEDIA AND CHURCH RED FACES

June 13, 2024

THERE WERE red faces for the north’s justice minister, Alliance leader Naomi Long, and her officials, who can add non-competence to the party’s... Read more »

PAUL TWEED’S MATCHMAKER

June 13, 2024

An intriguing mention in the Irish Times recently reported that dating agency Intro Matchmaking is seeking an injunction against one of its former... Read more »

‘MORNING IRELAND’ REPLACEMENT

June 13, 2024

NOW THAT the venerable Dobbo’s replacement on RTÉ’s News at One has been appointed – Morning Ireland’s Rachel English – speculation about who... Read more »

GOLDEN BOY’S TARNISHED IMAGE

May 30, 2024

IT IS natural that the grown-up children of Tony O’Reilly would praise their father’s qualities in funeral eulogies, as would any bereaved family... Read more »

O’DEA’S MEDIA MESSAGE TO MARTIN

May 16, 2024

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S media maestro, Paul Clarkson, and Martin’s political brain, Deirdre Gillane, will have been very interested in the take of former minister,... Read more »

‘INDEPENDENT’ MEDIA FUNDING

May 16, 2024

FOREIGN MINISTER and Tanáiste Micheál Martin continues to publicly and loudly mount a heroic defence against media minister Catherine Martin’s proposals for the... Read more »

STEPHEN REA’S PERFORMANCE

May 16, 2024

AN INTERESTING, alternative treatment of the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings – one that involves award-winning actor Stephen Rea – is Frank Connolly’s novel, A... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S UCD BASH

May 2, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO Business & Finance publisher-turned-grandee Ian Hyland, who didn’t let the small matter of Gaza get in the way of a day... Read more »

‘BALANCED’ DEBATE ON GAZA GENOCIDE

May 2, 2024
THE DOGMATIC radicals among Irish supporters of the Palestinians are outraged at the aesthetes on the editorial team at RTÉ’s arts programme, Arena, who... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS’S MEDALS

May 2, 2024

MEDIAHUIS’S EDITORIAL supremo, Cormac Bourke, told staff last year that the media awards organised by NewsBrands – now franchised out by NewsBrands –... Read more »