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IRISH WRITER NOT CENSORED

July 30, 2020

DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR, critic and musical director Richard Pine, who currently pens a regular ‘Greece Letter’ for the Irish Times and who studied and... Read more »

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OUT OF REACH

July 30, 2020

THE END of an era was reached recently with John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Irish Mirror after 25 years with... Read more »

Ó SNODAIGHS’ MOTOR CARS

July 30, 2020

LISTENERS TO Joe Duffy’s Livewhine radio show shortly after the general election would have been taken aback to hear Joe apologising for a... Read more »

SETBACK FOR DANA

July 16, 2020

THE LIBEL juggernaut launched by former presidential candidate and ex-MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon, against various media, ground to a temporary halt in the... Read more »

VICTORIA ABDICATES

July 16, 2020

AMONG THOSE journalists stepping back from the media to facilitate the new government is Irish Examiner columnist Victoria White, wife of Green Party leader Eamon... Read more »

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE

July 16, 2020

SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns must suffer from medium-term memory loss accentuated by an irony deficit. His outpourings on sexism, discrimination and... Read more »

WHO’S AFRAID OF DANIEL KINAHAN?

July 2, 2020

THE STAR’S gamble in announcing a boycott of the proposed Anthony Joshua/Tyson Fury fight has paid off spectacularly as gangster Daniel Kinahan was... Read more »

IRISH TIMES GENDER ISSUES

July 2, 2020

THOSE STROPPY Irish Times women haven’t gone away, you know. A report from IT women journalists alleging all manner of sexist, “macho” behaviour... Read more »

DUTCH MASTER SALES

July 2, 2020

MEDIAHUIS’s INM publisher in Ireland, Peter Vandermeersch, has been quoted as having scant respect for INM’s digital strategy (“incredibly, there was none”) and... Read more »

IVAN’S HARD NECK

June 18, 2020

THE RETIREMENT of The Hard Shoulder presenter on Newstalk, Ivan Yates, was announced by the ex-Fine Gael minister in February following a settlement... Read more »

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S REINVENTION

June 18, 2020

THE REINVENTED, caring Brendan O’Connor is beginning to grate almost as much as when he prided himself on dishing it to every vulnerable... Read more »

‘SINDO’ SENSITIVITY

June 18, 2020

WEDNESDAY’S Irish Times opinion and analysis page has recently resembled an old Sunday Independent edition, with former Sindo personalities Anne Harris and Michael... 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 »

TOM MCGUIRE’S SUCCESSOR

June 4, 2020

CLAIRE BYRNE and Miriam O’Callaghan must wait until another top radio job – a replacement for the retiring head of RTÉ Radio 1,... Read more »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

ENDA O’COINEEN’S ADS

May 7, 2020

WITH THE media suffering a collapse in advertising (at least non-state advertising) it was nice for the Business Post to be able to... 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 »

SINN FÉIN’S “BELLIGERENCE”

April 9, 2020

ACCORDING TO Irish Times northern editor Gerry Moriarty, the newly resurrected Stormont executive is in danger of falling apart and it’s all the... 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 »

NEWSBRAND’S BAIL-OUT

March 26, 2020

THE CEO of the lobby group for the newspaper sector, Newsbrands Ireland – Ann Marie Lenihan – has asked “that government commits to... 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 »

SISI’S SUPPORT

March 12, 2020

A THUNDERING Irish Times editorial marking the recent death of the Egyptian “dictator”, President Hosni Mubarak, sympathised with the Egyptians who had lived... 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 »