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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 »

Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

SUNDAY TIMES VS HUAWEI

May 16, 2019

The vigorous US campaign to persuade western countries to block Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (allegedly because of the risk of Chinese espionage or... 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 »

NEW MEDIA CURRENCY

May 2, 2019

THE TWO Sunday Business Post journalists — ex-editor Ian Kehoe and executive editor Tom Lyons — who wanted to buy out their newspaper... 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 »

KEYSTONE COPS

April 18, 2019

A SCENE of Keystone Cops proportion was conjured up last week by Irish Times, Irish Independent and RTÉ coverage of Garda commissioner Drew... 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 »

INM EXITERS

April 4, 2019

VETERAN EDITOR, Colm MacGinty, has just exited from the Sunday World and is to be followed this month by Sunday Independent executive editor... 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 »

FIONA MITCHELL’S DESK

March 21, 2019

RTÉ’S departing south-eastern correspondent, Damien Tiernan, gave the station a lash as he walked out the door in January. Tiernan pointed out that... Read more »

GEMMA EXPOSES CHRISTCHURCH!

March 21, 2019
“INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST” Gemma O’Doherty has either produced the international scoop of the 21st century or shot herself in various limbs with the assertion that... Read more »

DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS

March 7, 2019

TRIUMPHANT BOASTS and victory cries over the competition always accompany the Irish Independent’s reporting of the circulation figures and the latest ABC results... Read more »

FINTAN’S FOE

March 7, 2019

IRISH TIMES opinion enforcer Fintan O’Toole, expressed his distaste last year that New York Times columnist Ross Douthat should welcome the notion of... Read more »

‘MAIL’ MANAGEMENT MASSACRE HACKS

March 7, 2019

THE PRE-CHRISTMAS hack-cleansing at the Irish Daily Mail (see The Phoenix, 30/11/18) has been followed by another onslaught against staff at the newspaper... Read more »

VINCENT BROWNE’S LIBEL FEUDS

February 21, 2019

FORMER justice minister Paddy Cooney (88 next month) has received comforting financial compensation and a measure of vindication arising from his serial litigation... Read more »

BOYCOTTING BETHANY

February 21, 2019

THE VIRTUAL boycott of the Bethany Homes scandal (over 200 babies died there in the first 27 years of the state) by the... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ HUBRIS

February 21, 2019

THE TRIUMPHAL tone of Irish Times managing director Liam Kavanagh’s recent message to staff declaring victory over its Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew’s unfair... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN TO EXIT MEDIA?

February 7, 2019
IS DENIS O’BRIEN trying to offload not only his Newstalk radio station but also his stake in Independent News & Media, the now-crumbling media... Read more »