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D’ARCY SPURS GARDA PR CAMPAIGN

November 28, 2019

IT’S UNLIKELY that junior minister Michael D’Arcy will get much credit if the flurry of Garda activity in the violent campaign surrounding Quinn... Read more »

RTÉ SPLIT: DEE VS MOYA

November 14, 2019
YOU HAVE to feel sorry for RTÉ director general Dee Forbes, who is faced with the wrath not only of her staff but also... Read more »

BORDERLINE PARANOIA

November 14, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES has responded to growing calls for a border poll with an avalanche of criticism that reached a climax in the... Read more »

JOURNO AWARDS EGO FEST

October 31, 2019

DIGITAL-SAVVY hacks got into the Newsbrands Journalism Awards website some weeks ago (the gong circus is to be held in the Mansion House... Read more »

INM’S BELGIAN BEER INTERVIEWS

October 31, 2019

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Cormac Bourke’s “new role” as editor of the Irish Independent was announced in the Sindo recently, with Cormac quoted as... Read more »

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‘SINDO’ BLUSTER

October 31, 2019

THE REACTION of the Sunday Independent to Boris Johnson’s abandonment of his hard line on Brexit, the north and his former ‘allies’ (the... Read more »

McGREGOR SPLITS MEDIA AWARDS

October 16, 2019

THE Newsbrands Journalism Awards judging process has proceeded with the usual behind-the-scenes bickering and lobbying. Already the Irish Mirror’s editor-in-chief, John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans,... Read more »

AND THE WINNER IS…

October 16, 2019

“WHY WOULD I not believe it?” was the plaintive cry of non-Nobel prize-winner John Banville, quoted in the Irish Times last weekend. Banville... Read more »

ULICK O’CONNOR’S SPECIAL SEAT

October 16, 2019

ARGUMENTATIVE, hot-tempered and sometimes even threatening, writer and critic Ulick O’Connor was Goldhawk’s favourite rebel contrarian – even when being verbally abused by... Read more »

MARTY WHELAN’S JERUSALEM JUNKET

October 3, 2019

VIEWERS OF RTÉ’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest final in May will have heard presenter Marty Whelan speak of a “visit to... Read more »

DIM FORECAST

October 3, 2019

WHAT A mischievous suggestion was recently published in the Irish Mail on Sunday in a speculative forecast about a Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition... Read more »

‘MAIL’S’ MALE TALE

October 3, 2019

The Irish Daily Mail boasts of its special attention to women readers, but it’s uncertain how an online feature headlined “Dublin strippers reveal... Read more »

INM V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

September 19, 2019

SUNDAY TIMES hack Mark Tighe is being pursued in the High Court by former Independent News & Media’s (INM) group editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae,... Read more »

THE CURRENCY’S CAST

September 19, 2019

HAVING FAILED to buy the Sunday Business Post (see The Phoenix, 3/5/19) Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons – formerly editor and acting editor,... Read more »

BBC TV ‘TROUBLES’

September 19, 2019

THE BBC NI series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History, which began last week, received a lyrical welcome from Máiría Cahill in... Read more »

KERRY OWN GOAL

September 5, 2019

KERRY’S FOOTBALLERS dominated media coverage in the Kingdom this week but another battle – between a local sports titan and Fianna Fáil TD... Read more »

MOUNTBATTEN: CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

September 5, 2019

THERE HAS been little media comment about reports, backed up by interviews with abused victims, that Lord Louis Mountbatten – great-uncle and mentor... Read more »

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ AND WOMEN

September 5, 2019

SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns has leaped to the defence of his male colleagues at the Irish Times and has regurgitated their... Read more »

NÓRA QUOIRIN: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

August 22, 2019

IN AN effort to get ahead of the news, an Irish Times front-page splash on Nóra Quoirin last week said, “Suspicions grow that... Read more »

BREXIT BACKSLIDE

August 22, 2019

Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris is driving a campaign to force the government to yield on the backstop. And the divisions in the main... Read more »

IRISH TIMES IMAGE

August 8, 2019

IN AN unusually unsubtle PR move, the Irish Times announced the editorial promotion of two women the weekend following The Phoenix story about... Read more »

SEZ THE MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL

August 8, 2019

HOW IRONIC that the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times should pick up on the fake news peddled by the Daily Mail which... Read more »

COLETTE SEXTON’S CONVERSION

August 8, 2019

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST hack, Colette Sexton, will surely raise the tone and exper- tise of her new colleagues at Edelman which she joined... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS’S LIBEL WRIT

July 25, 2019

THE BROODING Kevin Myers, sacked from the Sunday Times for penning an anti-semitic jibe about BBC Jewish journalists, has re-entered the public arena... Read more »

CLIFF RICHARD FOR HIGH COURT

July 25, 2019

AN UNPRECEDENTED action being taken by John Browne (brother of Dana Rosemary Scallon), who was acquitted of all charges of child abuse in... Read more »

WHEN IN ROME…

July 25, 2019

IRISH TIMES management’s triumphal declaration of victory over its 28-year-long Rome correspondent, Paddy Agnew, last February may have been a bit premature, judging... Read more »

GERRY ADAMS LIBELS

July 11, 2019

WIDESPREAD MEDIA speculation about Gerry Adams being either involved in or having knowledge of the 1991 murder of alleged informer Tom Oliver appears... Read more »

FIONNAN SHEAHAN’S “EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE”

July 11, 2019

DECIPHERING the recent INM advert for an employee communications and experience manager demands a post-graduate degree in HR gobbledygook. Apparently, the core function... Read more »

TO HELL OR CORK

July 11, 2019

AFTER TWO years as editor of the now-defunct Times Ireland edition, Richie Oakley has spent several weeks weighing up offers to edit the... Read more »

HACKS ‘BLOOD’ FEUD

June 27, 2019

TWO PROMINENT Irish post holders in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have become embroiled in the offensive against British Labour Party Palestinian... Read more »

‘INDO’ POLITICAL STAMPEDE

June 27, 2019

INM group editor Fionnan Sheahan is wrestling with personnel issues at Talbot Towers, where his rambunctious persona clashed with the Indo’s equally assertive... Read more »

BANNING THE ‘DAILY MAIL’

June 27, 2019

HIGH ANXIETY has surrounded coverage by mainstream and social media of the Ana Kriégel murder trial, mostly for good reasons. But reaction to... Read more »

STEPHEN DONNELLY VS ‘WICKLOW TIMES’

June 12, 2019

FIANNA FÁIL’S health spokesperson, Wicklow TD Stephen Donnelly, did not have a good local election, with internal rows contributing to the party losing... Read more »

FOREIGN MEDIA

June 12, 2019

INDIGNATION from PR and lobbying maestro Karl Brophy and others at those who were not exactly sympathetic to the abandonment of the Times... Read more »

SOOTHING SHANE ROSS

June 12, 2019

THE Sunday Independent stood by its long-time journalist, now sports minister, Shane Ross, last weekend, allowing him much space to vindicate his effort... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS SPANNER IN IT WORKS

May 29, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES gave the Mediahuis takeover of INM a guarded endorsement, saying the new owners offered a fresh start for the group... Read more »