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MAURICE McCABE’S LEGAL LABYRINTH

May 17, 2018

THAT apology broadcast by RTÉ’s Prime Time last week to Supt Noel Cunningham over his dealings with whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, was humble... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S GHOST ADVISERS

May 3, 2018

IAN HYLAND’S most impressive “advisory board” on his newly created PR firm, Principal Communications (PC), seems to have disappeared just weeks after it... Read more »

ANNE HARRIS’S ‘WAR’ CASUALTIES

April 19, 2018

WRITING in the Sunday Business Post recently, former Sunday Independent editor Anne Harris described her “personal testimony of my experience at INM” as... Read more »

GAVIN’S DISGUST

April 19, 2018

“It is time for answers at INM, GAVIN O’REILLY EXCLUSIVE”, was emblazoned across the front page of the Sunday Business Post following the... Read more »

O’BRIEN CRIES ETHICAL FOUL

April 5, 2018

DENIS O’BRIEN and his spin doctor James Morrissey are engaged in an artful stratagem against The Irish Times by implying that its correspondent... Read more »

RUSSIAN MEDIA GAS

April 5, 2018

THE Irish media got right onside with HMG in deciding that the Ruskies carried out a nerve gas attack on two Russians in... Read more »

MI5 Man tied up

April 5, 2018

SINDO columnist Ruth Dud Edwards recently penned a touching eulogy to her long-time pal, MI5 and special branch IRA informer, Sean O’Callaghan, following... Read more »

MINISTER McHUGH’S ADVISER SUED

March 22, 2018

GREG HARKIN, special adviser to government chief whip and Junior Minister Joe McHugh, has been hunted around Government Buildings, Dublin bars and restaurants... Read more »

Barry Egan’s salad days

March 22, 2018

WOW! What a wild boy Barry Egan was back in the 1980s when, as he explained recently to breathless Sindo readers, he cavorted... Read more »

ABORTED INDO STORY

March 22, 2018

THE Irish and Sunday Independent have been running a campaign against their bitter rivals in The Sunday Times and its new title, The... Read more »

IRISH TIMES BUYS SCU SPIN

March 8, 2018

THE IRISH TIMES heaped ridicule on the €1.5m outlay on the national plan orchestrated by the government’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU). But there... Read more »

POOR CLAIRE SISTERS

March 8, 2018

POOR Claire Byrne must be feeling left out as Arnotts launches its Spring Summer 18 Catwalk Show, “an evening of style and elegance”... Read more »

David McWilliams’s double dip

February 22, 2018

IT’S a hard job getting new material – but rehashing your own is a bit cheeky. Financial superstar hack David McWilliams – “ranked... Read more »

ALIVE! AND KICKING

February 22, 2018

BOTH sides in the abortion referendum have exhorted their foot soldiers to be respectful and moderate in tone when arguing the case for... Read more »

Leo’s Loyal Fan

February 22, 2018

“DURING the Fine Gael leadership campaign I supported Leo Varadkar and strongly opposed Simon Coveney.” So claimed Eoghan Harris recently in his Sindo... Read more »

RTÉ’S RADIO DIVAS

February 8, 2018

RTÉ proclaimed “Fresh Moves at RTÉ Radio 1” with a photo montage of six presenters – five of them women – in a... Read more »

MEDIA CIVIL WAR

February 8, 2018

THOSE High Court libel actions taken out by two gardaí against various media over reports on Maurice McCabe are mirrored by the sharp... Read more »

The Sindo’s diverse readership

February 8, 2018

WHAT a surprisingly cosmopolitan readership the Sunday Independent has. In a recent letter to the Sindo retired Defence Forces commander and peace activist... Read more »

Who will buy the Business Post?

January 25, 2018

CONOR KILLEEN, owner of The Sunday Business Post, will have been disappointed that the Irish Times interest in the newspaper did not result... Read more »

Ryan Airbrushed

January 25, 2018

MEANDERING back to the rare and rarefied auld times is a favourite device of Sindo columnist Zozimus aka Liam Collins, who recently devoted... Read more »

The Sheriff

January 25, 2018

Independent News & Media (INM) titles fulminated last week about the treatment of Joanne Hayes and how she so richly deserved apologies from... Read more »

Michael Clifford’s book

January 11, 2018

A strange silence surrounds the release last September of Irish Examiner hack Mick Clifford’s book, A Force for Justice: The Maurice McCabe Story.... Read more »

Miriam’s Fans

January 11, 2018

FAILED presidential candidate Seán Gallagher’s six-figure sum in compensation for the ‘Tweetgate’ incident on RTÉ’s 2011 Presidential debate programme shows what a small... Read more »

dystopian visions

January 11, 2018

PERCEIVED wisdom among whining liberals – you know the type – is that the root cause of Garda scandals is more cultural than... Read more »

Reviewing Eileen Battersby

December 14, 2017

GOOD to see that The Sunday Times has also noticed the symbiotic relationship between Irish Times critics and authors John Banville and Eileen... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S STARRING ROLE

December 14, 2017

THERE WAS the usual back-slapping by assorted hacks at the Westbury Hotel shindig earlier this month when the UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist... Read more »

CORK HACKS REBEL

December 13, 2017

IRISH TIMES DAC’s takeover of Landmark, owners of the Irish Examiner, Evening Echo and other regional titles, provoked some sour coverage from rival... Read more »

NEWSTALK / IRISH TIMES TRUCE?

November 30, 2017

WILL Irish Times editor Paul O’Neill throw his editorial colleague Fintan O’Toole under a bus in order to mollify Communicorp chairperson Lucy Gaffney’s... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR LOSES SINDO

November 30, 2017

ANOTHER leaked spin from the spinners in the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) recently emphasised the Grand Canyon separating the SCU from Fine Gael... Read more »

Union Militant

November 30, 2017

THE accolade bestowed on Vincent Browne by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) – a life membership certificate – at a recent ceremony... Read more »

JOHN CONCANNON STRIKES BACK

November 2, 2017

MICHEÁL MARTIN has been accused of making too much of Leo Varadkar’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) as a €5m propaganda machine for Fine... Read more »