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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »