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‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

‘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 »