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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 »

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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 »

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 »

PADDY AGNEW’S SCOOP

February 7, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES’S parting with its 28-year Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew (or sacking, as Agnew and many colleagues argue) has led to protracted... Read more »

‘INDO’ EVICTION FOLKLORE

February 7, 2019

THE print media sometimes rails against the unregulated irresponsibility of social media, but what restraints are there against the nonsense sometimes purveyed by... Read more »

SDLP MEDIA SPIN

January 24, 2019

A CASE STUDY in how a political agenda is manufactured and disseminated via the media – whether or not it is factual –... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S MEDIA CRITICS

January 24, 2019

THE DISSING of Shane Ross by his Fine Gael cabinet ‘colleagues’, normally given a loud airing by FG’s media Greek chorus, recommenced last... Read more »

‘STAR’S’ NEW REGIME

January 24, 2019

NEWS THAT the Indo group is embarking on another round of cuts has caused yet more gnashing of teeth among the hapless hacks.... Read more »

THE INDO’S EVICTION COVERAGE

January 10, 2019

IRISH INDEPENDENT coverage of the attack on security men who evicted the McGann family from their Strokestown home was a masterpiece of investigative... Read more »

McCABE, HACKS AND LEGAL EAGLES

January 10, 2019

IRISH TIMES crime correspondent Conor Lally did a demolition job on Mick Clifford and the Irish Examiner recently for their incorrect story on... Read more »

‘GUARDIAN’ BURIES PAEDOPHILE STORY

January 10, 2019

GRIFFITH COLLEGE journalism academic Niall Meehan asked online on New Year’s Day why the Guardian in 2017 had removed, without explanation, an online... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ COUNTER REVOLUTION

December 13, 2018

A QUIET coup appears to have taken place at the Sunday Business Post, with a purge of the editorial top brass and their... Read more »

MARTINA FITZGERALD’S BOOK

December 13, 2018

WAS IT Martina Fitzgerald’s book, Madam Politician, that jinxed the (former) RTÉ political correspondent, who lost her position last week? Certainly, Martina had... Read more »

‘IT’ OUTSIDER

December 13, 2018

HISTORIAN and Irish Times columnist Diarmaid Ferriter quoted Irish Times columnist Kathy Sheridan to buttress his Irish Times column heaping hyperbolic praise on... Read more »

INM AWARDS ANGST

November 29, 2018

BEING BEATEN into second place by The Irish Times – again – in the NewsBrands journalism awards, the Sunday and Irish Independent editorial... Read more »

THE IT VS SHANE ROSS

November 29, 2018

THE OLD Lady of Tara Street will need smelling salts if or when Shane Ross’s execrable Judicial Appointments Bill is passed into legislation.... Read more »

SLASH AND BURN AT ‘IRISH DAILY MAIL’

November 29, 2018

A PURGE of staff journalists, a cull of columnists and cuts for some of the more highly paid personality columnists is under way... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS’S EXIT

November 15, 2018

NEWSTALK BREAKFAST’S joint host, Paul Williams, met with managing editor Patricia Monahan last Thursday and, following a fraught discussion, it was agreed that... Read more »

EXITING THE INDO

November 15, 2018

TWO more INM executives shuffled off last week, both of whom held senior positions during recent convulsions at the group. Chief peoples officer... Read more »

MIRIAM’S MANY MEDIA FANS

November 15, 2018

RSVP magazine was back promoting Miriam O’Callaghan for all its worth this month, with the presenter splashed across the front page under the... Read more »

‘POST’ BOSS LOSES DRESSING ROOM

November 1, 2018

NEW Sunday Business Post owner Enda O’Coineen addressed his business-savvy – but worried – journalists recently in an effort to soothe concerns following... Read more »

HACKS AWARDS BEAR GARDEN

November 1, 2018

THE mega-egos of mainstream journalism will gather in the Mansion house this month for an event of far greater significance than the first... Read more »

NÓIRÍN VS MEDIA

October 18, 2018

EX-GARDA COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan appears to have been rehabilitated by Justice Charleton’s findings, but if no journalist offered a scintilla of evidence against... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S MOBILE

October 18, 2018

DENIS NAUGHTEN scuttled back to base the day after his resignation last week and straight into an interview with Shannonside FM in what... Read more »

FRANK MCDONALD’S HIT LIST

October 18, 2018

TRULY FRANK is the title of long-time Irish Times environment correspondent Frank McDonald’s newly published memoir, in which he pays off a few... Read more »

RADIO SILENCE

October 4, 2018

KERRY’S EYE sleuth Aidan O’Connor recently provided his newspaper with a local media scoop concerning a €1m High Court judgment against a pillar... Read more »

EXAMINER’S LEGACY DEBT

October 4, 2018

A LEGACY debt the Irish Times had to pick up following its recent takeover of the Irish Examiner arose from a rather serious... Read more »

JOURNALISM MATTERS (SOMETIMES)

October 4, 2018

THE MOST laudable campaign, Journalism Matters Week, launched by NewsBrands Ireland recently, was enthusiastically promoted by the Irish Times in particular. The Old... Read more »

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S SCOOPS

September 20, 2018

It’s ironic that Ireland’s most famous investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin, should be the torpedo that sank Gemma O’Doherty’s presidential campaign. In a bizarre... Read more »

WAITING ON DENIS NAUGHTEN

September 20, 2018

ACCOUNTS JUST filed by the joint venture between INM and Northern & Shell that publishes the Irish Daily Star confirm the downward trend... Read more »