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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 »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

DANA’S LEGAL CAMPAIGN

September 20, 2018

THE unrelenting campaign for vindication being pursued by Dana and her brother, John Brown, against INM titles and others came a step closer... Read more »

NIGEL FARAGE’S SPIN DOCTOR

September 6, 2018

OF THE main personalities fronting the new Irexit party being launched this weekend, former Irish ambassador Ray Bassett and UCD professor Ray Kinsella... Read more »

IRA FILM NOIR

September 6, 2018

I, Dolours, a documentary film based on Ed Moloney’s interview with IRA dissident, the late Dolours Price, gets mixed reviews. Screen Daily’s Fionnuala... Read more »

ABANDONING BIRNEY AND MCCAFFREY

September 6, 2018

THERE is consternation in NUJ circles at the main media’s limp response to the arrests of two award-winning journalists in Belfast. Trevor Birney... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR EXPOSÉ!

August 23, 2018

THE Sunday Independent recently splashed a story across its front page and inside page about relations between Leo Varadkar and health minister Simon... Read more »

MICKEY HARTE VS RTÉ

August 23, 2018

IF RTÉ was unaware of just how some in the GAA, especially in nordie counties, viewed the station over the last 20 years... Read more »

SIMON AND SARAH

August 23, 2018

THE LATEST recruit from media to the government spin machine is Irish Times political reporter Sarah Bardon, who will work for health minister... Read more »

WHELAN SPURNS PRESIDENCY

August 9, 2018

WHAT an interesting sequence of statements emanated from barrister, Irish Times columnist, ex-Fianna Fáil election candidate and putative presidential candidate Noel Whelan in... Read more »

SUSAN MITCHELL’S DISGRUNTLED DOCTORS

August 9, 2018

TWO radically different takes on the CervicalCheck crisis were published last weekend by Sunday Times journalist Justine McCarthy and Sunday Business Post health... Read more »

DON’T MENTION THE WAR

August 9, 2018

DENIS O’BRIEN will be pleased to know that RTÉ is watching his back as he contends with various begrudgers in some parts of... Read more »

ICONIC HACK GEMMA O’DOHERTY

July 26, 2018

GEMMA O’DOHERTY has become a media icon for some and she is regularly referred to as one of Ireland’s foremost investigative journalists. Or,... Read more »

BLACK MARK FOR IRISH TIMES

July 26, 2018

MEDIA EFFORTS to portray July 12 celebrations in the north as happy clappy family affairs are perennial, especially in The Irish Times which... Read more »

SMOOTH TALK AT THE IRISH TIMES

July 26, 2018

THE nervous souls at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo were treated to a soothing session from managing director Liam Kavanagh and IT... Read more »

MICHAEL D’S CHORUS

July 12, 2018

THE IRISH TIMES has shown surprisingly little appetite for the high-minded ethical argument that there should be a presidential contest and has not... Read more »

ISRAELIS FIX IRISH MEDIA POLLS

July 12, 2018

THE ISRAELI propaganda machine is flushed with victory after overturning for the second time an Irish poll which, before being targeted by the... Read more »