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‘SINDO’ RENAISSANCE?

June 4, 2020

THAT ANY newspaper editor should proclaim as ground breaking an interview with the leader of the biggest vote-getting party in the country, Sinn... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ PATRIOTIC DUTY

June 4, 2020

IF A programme for government is agreed shortly, then the Irish Times will deserve plaudits (especially political editor Pat Leahy) from the three... Read more »

ALL KINDS OF WRITS

May 21, 2020

COVID-19 KNOWS no boundaries, but neither does the determination of Eurovision winner, ex-MEP and two times presidential candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon to exact... Read more »

‘INDO’ POLITICAL TEAM

May 21, 2020

THE ELATION of Philip Ryan, newly appointed group political editor at INM, was evident on Twitter recently. Ryan enthused about the Indo’s newsroom,... Read more »

VLAD TAKES GLOVES OFF

May 7, 2020

IT’S THE lure of dangling money at the broken newspapers for political purposes that Varadkar is about in stimulating those supportive media reports... Read more »

HOMAGE TO CATALONIA

May 7, 2020

VILLAGE EDITOR Michael Smith has become embroiled in a six-month-long spat with journalist Jason O’Toole over the magazine’s publication of O’Toole’s interview with... Read more »

CONNOR MURPHY’S RTÉ GIG

April 23, 2020

ALTHOUGH APPOINTMENTS to state boards have effectively been put on hold while the interim/caretaker government remains in situ, it turns out that some... Read more »

CASSANDRA COLEMAN

April 23, 2020

LOOKS LIKE mercurial economist Marc Coleman is on the loose again, having been tamed within IBEC for a few years. Earlier this month,... Read more »

RTÉ’S COVID-19 MESSAGE

April 9, 2020

THERE WAS a noticeable shift in media coverage of the government’s efforts last weekend as hacks woke up to the fact that maybe... Read more »

STEPHEN RAE’S ‘STRAITS TIMES’

April 9, 2020

FORMER INDEPENDENT News and Media (INM) group editor Stephen Rae’s been out of the journalism business for a while, but he’s keeping his... Read more »

MARK PAUL BITES BACK

March 26, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS more than a little surprised to see a blistering attack on one Dermot Desmond over his use of the Irish Times... Read more »

‘INDO’ CORPSE COUNT

March 26, 2020

WE ARE facing one hell of a lot of corpses in the next few weeks if the part-time virologists, pneumonologists and epidemiologists in... Read more »

LEGAL MAUL

March 12, 2020

EX-IRELAND rugby legend and captain Rory Best may have to shortly tog out for an off-field scrummage of far greater significance – legally... Read more »

JOURNALIST STALKED

March 12, 2020

THE “abominable” stalking of Irish News security correspondent Allison Morris, whose life and that of her family was rendered unbearable for three years,... Read more »

TOP-10-HEAVY RTÉ

February 27, 2020

THE PROCESS of Brendan O’Connor’s appointment as replacement for the late Marian Finucane’s weekend slot had all the finesse and transparency of a... Read more »

PHELIM MCALEER’S OLD COLLEAGUE

February 27, 2020

JOURNALISTS PHELIM McAleer and his partner, Anne McElhinney, have homed in on the Harvey Weinstein trial with daily podcasts, according to an obliging... Read more »

RUSSIAN AGENTS ON IRISH LAND AND SEA

February 27, 2020

SUNDAY TIMES intelligence sources have stimulated yet another Russian scare and the paper recently exposed a dastardly plot by Russian agents operating in... Read more »

BORIS’S AWRISH PAL

February 13, 2020

THE NOW-stateless author, journalist and former spokesman for EU Commissioner Ray MacSharry, Scottish-born John Cooney has refused to renew his British passport in... Read more »

‘INDO’ ATTACKS POLITICAL BIAS

February 13, 2020

MEDIA REACTION to Fine Gael’s election meltdown plunged to further depths the day before the general election when the Irish Independent front page... Read more »

MARKING PAUL’S CARDS

January 30, 2020

A CLARIFICATION in the Irish Times noted recently that its article about foreign investment in Israel “involved a visit to Israel… organised and... Read more »

ADVERTISING SNAKE BITES

January 30, 2020

IN AN unusual departure for the Irish Times, the newspaper devoted two full-coloured broadsheet pages (pages two and three in front of the... Read more »

MARIAN’S ADMIRERS

January 16, 2020

LIKE EVERY other media and many politicians, the Sunday Independent eulogised the late Marian Finucane, but there was a slight edge to Liam... Read more »

RIC AND THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

January 16, 2020

THE Irish Times may be ruing its own campaign – via former political editor Stephen Collins and its own editorial platform – in... Read more »

CONOR GANNON CLEANS UP

January 16, 2020

A FORMER clerical student at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, Conor Gannon, is ploughing his way, so far successfully, through a raft... Read more »

HERMANN KELLY’S CORRECTION

December 12, 2019

HERMANN KELLY, founder of the decidedly, er, right-of-centre Irish Freedom Party and spin doctor for Nigel Farage has struck a blow for freedom... Read more »

FIFTH COLUMNIST FINTAN

December 12, 2019

THE Irish Times has been in full-on battle mode against proposals for a citizens’ assembly to prepare for a border poll and has... Read more »

MYERS’ DUAL LIBEL SUITS

December 12, 2019

KEVIN MYERS will be grateful for an extraordinary slip up by RTÉ in his High Court action for libel against a Morning Ireland... Read more »

NOT IN FRONT OF THE HACKS

November 28, 2019

‘SMILING CHILDREN, not sour-faced journalists’ is the best description of the urgent stratagem deployed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and communications minister Ricky Bruton... Read more »