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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 »

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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 »

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 »

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 »