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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 »

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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 »

OFFENDING ALAN SHATTER

July 12, 2018

THERE was apprehension, on both sides ahead of a meeting between Irish Independent editor Fionnan Sheehan and Alan Shatter to discuss terms of... Read more »

THE FAMINE HACK

June 28, 2018

FRETTING recently over the possible erosion of Irish devotion to Britain and its royal family engendered by Brexit, Irish Times columnist Stephen Collins... Read more »

ROMAN FEUD AT THE IRISH TIMES

June 28, 2018

IRISH TIMES efforts to dispense with longtime Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew without decent recompense are developing into a legal saga in Rome with... Read more »

JODY CORCORAN PROTESTS (TOO MUCH)

June 28, 2018

BARRISTER and ex-politician Noel Whelan’s weekly Irish Times columns do not normally provoke much angst but a recent reference to a Sunday Independent... Read more »

MAIL IN THE BOX

June 13, 2018

THE tongue lashing delivered to group editor of the Irish Daily and Irish Sunday Mail titles, Sebastian Hamilton, by Supreme Court judge Peter... Read more »

EVE HEWSON’S EXCUSES

June 13, 2018

IT SEEMS Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has inherited her dad’s preternatural talent for annoying people. The Brooklyn-based Dubliner had a bit of an... Read more »

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS

June 13, 2018

BUSINESS people’s bible the Sunday Business Post stuck it to the drinks industry recently in a devastating critique of the “well-funded lobbyists” that... Read more »

STEPHEN RAE’S UNTIMELY INM EXIT

May 31, 2018

INM group editor-in-chief Stephen Rae is aghast at the unfavourable impression created, not by the manner of his exit from the newspaper group,... Read more »

WHEN IN ROME …

May 31, 2018

IRISH TIMES management recently told its staff that efforts to throw Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of over 30 years, overboard were carried... Read more »

DAILY MAIL FORGETS TO CAMPAIGN

May 31, 2018

GIVEN THAT the Irish Daily Mail proclaims itself “Ireland’s campaigning newspaper”, readers may have been surprised at the lack of coverage of the... Read more »

HACKS PRIVILEGED?

May 17, 2018

THE imminent appearance of ex-garda commissioners Martin Callinan and Nóirín O’Sullivan at the Charleton Tribunal has the media salivating, but the same hacks... Read more »

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 »

VARADKAR’S PR

May 17, 2018

“SHAMBOLIC: blame shifts to Varadkar”, was the arresting, not to say provocative, headline on the front page of last Saturday’s Irish Independent over... Read more »

KEAVENEY V IRISH TIMES

May 3, 2018
PRESS Ombudsman Peter Feeney is refusing to deal with ex-TD Colm Keaveney’s complaint against The Irish Times coverage of his travails and truce with... 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 »

Brendan and Denis

April 19, 2018

AN INM editorial executive who has thrived despite offering Denis O’Brien perhaps the greatest single provocation is Sindo journalist Brendan O’Connor. In 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 »