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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 »

DENIS O’BRIEN TO THE ‘RESCUE’

November 2, 2017

TWO Sundays ago, Sunday Independent hack Liam Collins suggested that Independent News & Media’s new chief executive, Michael Doorly, should bid for the... Read more »

NOVEL CONSPIRACY

October 19, 2017

THE Sunday Independent ran a racy yarn last weekend about the Guardian and Observer whose political prejudices, the Sindo argued, was the reason... Read more »

Paddy Agnew and The Irish Times

October 19, 2017

THAT Michael O’Leary should be cornered by that European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling forcing Ryanair to deal with employees in the country... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN TO DUMP NEWSTALK?

October 5, 2017

HAS the penny finally dropped with Denis O’Brien about his troublesome and loss-making radio station, Newstalk? The word is that he is preparing... Read more »

IRISH TIMES’ POST HASTE

October 5, 2017

DID Liam Kavanagh, MD of The Irish Times DAC, lose the run of himself when he said his company would have a look... Read more »

Martin’s PR

October 5, 2017

THE lyrical odes to Micheál Martin penned almost weekly by Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris must surely be reddening the Fianna Fáil leader’s cheeks.... Read more »

LONDON MET TO QUIZ INM?

September 21, 2017

THE latest salvo in the legal shock and awe campaign by Dana and her brother, John Brown against various parties in the media... Read more »

IT RESTORES PEACE WITH NEWSTALK

September 21, 2017

FINTAN O’TOOLE’S public gesture in proclaiming his boycott of Newstalk over George Hook’s rape commentary would surely have met with the approval of... Read more »

WHO WILL BUY ‘IRISH EXAMINER’?

September 7, 2017

THE Sunday Business Post’s recent report that a bid by The Irish Times Ltd to buy the Irish Examiner is virtually a done... Read more »

John Burns’s Hard Neck

September 7, 2017

IS Sunday Times associate editor John Burns beyond embarrassment? Just a wet week or so after ST columnist Kevin Myers – whose outpourings... Read more »

RINGER’S WESTERN SPIN

September 7, 2017

MINSTER for Rural Development Michael Ring is at least as conscious of PR and media manipulation as his new boss, Leo Varadkar, and... Read more »

Jonathan Hoare: Keyboard Warrior

August 24, 2017

INTERESTING to see Jonathan Hoare, special advisor to Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, has deleted all but two tweets from his personal Twitter... Read more »

After Myers at the ST

August 24, 2017

Frank Fitzgibbon A loud if delicate calm has descended on The Sunday Times newsroom since the Kevin Myers anti-semitic affair, reflecting the mute... Read more »

Newstalk Mad Men

August 24, 2017

Sarah Carey THE take-over of Newstalk’s Drive programme by Ivan Yates, means that Drive presenter Sarah McInerney’s future is unclear, as is that... Read more »

Myers’ Fans

August 10, 2017

Kevin Myers THE only consolation for The Sunday Times on the weekend of its now ejected columnist Kevin Myers’s anti-Semitic implosion was that... Read more »

RTÉ WAGE SLAVES

August 10, 2017

Claire Byrne DESPITE rampant speculation about Bryan “Dobbo” Dobson moving to Morning Ireland, RTÉ’S head of news and current affairs, the no-nonsense Jon... Read more »

WORST LIBEL LEGACY

August 10, 2017

Susan Denham THAT profit warning from INM issued in late July and which referred to extra costs arising from “legacy libel awards” referred... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS IN THE BOX

July 27, 2017

Paul Williams THE Sunday Independent’s extensive feature on Paul Williams’ evidence to the Charleton Tribunal described how the ”pre-eminent crime journalist of his... Read more »