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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »