Article Category: Fit to Print?

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Brendan O’Connor for TV3?

July 27, 2017

Brendan O’Connor THE personalities mentioned as successor to Vincent Browne’s TV3 programme have ranged from Ivan Yates to Matt Cooper and the venerable... Read more »

TRIBUNAL WITNESSES

July 27, 2017

TRIBUNAL chairman Mr Justice Charleton made a most significant statement about the motivation of witnesses when it was suggested by Paul Williams’ barrister... Read more »

DAIL’S WAR CORRESPONDENTS

July 13, 2017

THE Fine Gael leadership contest was a polite straightforward affair compared to the machinations surrounding the election of a new chair of the... Read more »

Indo Contempt

July 13, 2017

THE Irish Independent’s angst about TD Paul Murphy and supporters of the Jobstown Six being allegedly in contempt of court may be intensified... Read more »

‘MR SHOWBIZ’ DONE FOR FRAUD

July 13, 2017

LEO VARADKAR will have been impressed at the northern Department for Communities’ successful prosecution last month of journalist Paul Martin for defrauding £13,250... Read more »

BEEB MAN KICKS ASS IN RTÉ

June 29, 2017

BBC legend John Simpson once remarked that while RTÉ’s new managing director of news and current affairs, Scouser Jon Williams, was a top... Read more »

O’BRIEN V KEAVENEY

June 29, 2017

DENIS O’Brien’s brief, Michael Cush SC, told the Court of Appeal last week that former Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney’s Dáil speech criticising... Read more »

Indo savages Varadkar

June 29, 2017

THERE is a distinct polarisation between The Irish Times and Irish Independent on new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with the Indo attacking him while... Read more »

INM’S ‘NO’ TO CELTIC MEDIA

June 15, 2017

THE “mutual” decision by INM and Celtic Media Group to go forward “on a separate footing”, thus ending the proposed INM buy-out of... Read more »

Noel Whelan’s U-turn

June 15, 2017

WHAT a perceptive student of British politics Irish Times columnist Noel Whelan is. Just days before the UK general election Whelan pointed out... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ AFGHAN WARRIOR

June 15, 2017

WHY does the Irish media continue to present military commentators to the public as if they were detached observers in violent conflicts across... Read more »

COVENEY’S INDO CHOIR GIRLS

June 2, 2017

THE Irish Independent made a desperate attempt to rally support for its favoured Fine Gael contender Simon Coveney last Saturday while also lauding... Read more »