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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

RTÉ’S POLITICAL PRIORITIES

May 29, 2019

WHILE RTÉ’S coverage of the election counts was up to its usual high standard, the scheduling of EU election debates – easily the... Read more »

PRESS COUNCIL — SECRET INFO

May 29, 2019

WHAT AN intriguing postscript at the end of last weekend’s Sunday Business Post’s publication of the Press Council’s rejection of its appeal against... Read more »

CREATING THE NEWS

May 16, 2019

YOU HAVE to hand it to whichever Sunday Independent newsroom hack came up with last weekend’s front page headline, “Varadkar’s €3bn tax cut... Read more »

DANA’S CROSS-BORDER LIBELS

May 16, 2019

EX-PRESIDENTIAL candidate and singer, Dana, took the Sunday World for a sum not far off €200,000 plus mammoth legal costs in the Belfast... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ BUSINESS

May 2, 2019

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST chief executive Siobhán Lennon’s goodbye bash in Doheny & Nesbitt’s Baggot Street hostelry last week saw her replacement, Colm O’Reilly,... Read more »

DERVAN’S FIERY FAI DEBUT

May 2, 2019

THE THEN FAI boss John Delaney announced the appointment of veteran sports hack Cathal Dervan as the FAI’s director of public relations and... Read more »

CRIME DOES PAY

April 18, 2019

The International Fraud Prevention Conference, organised by ex-INM group editor Stephen Rae and his best buddy and colleague, Paul Williams, formerly of Newstalk,... Read more »

PRESS SANCTION FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

April 18, 2019

VETERAN Irish Times journalist and former Sunday Tribune editor Peter Murtagh retired last week. The IT fired a shot at Denis O’Brien in... Read more »

INM ‘HACKERS’ FOR HIGH COURT

April 4, 2019

INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA’S (INM) legal and corporate strategy is clear from the decision to take High Court action against former chief executive,... Read more »

CORBYN AND JIMMY SAVILE

April 4, 2019

A FRISSON ran through the RTÉ newsroom shortly after 7am last Thursday, following the usual Morning Ireland slot, It Says in the Papers... Read more »

RUTH DUD DEPARTS ‘SINDO’

March 21, 2019

LONG-TIME Sunday Independent scourge of Republicanism Ruth Dudley Edwards bid the newspaper au revoir recently. However, she reassured anxious readers that, while she... Read more »