Article Category: Fit to Print?

NEWSTALK SHY ABOUT RATINGS

May 3, 2017

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Irish Independent boasted three months ago that Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk programmes, Newstalk Breakfast and Newstalk Drive, had produced “significant” increases in... Read more »

Anton Savage’s PR

May 3, 2017

THE Irish Sun gave Anton Savage a much needed boost by reporting that the ex-Today FM programmer could be on the verge of... Read more »

Reviewing Desmond Traynor

April 19, 2017

IF Irish Times critic and literary diva Eileen Battersby was treated with kid gloves by the Sunday Independent, her own critic, Sindo reviewer... Read more »

VICTORIA WHITE’S TSUNAMI

April 19, 2017

IRISH EXAMINER columnist Victoria White last week stuck it to those Harry Houdinis in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil whom she charged with... Read more »

IRISH TIMES’ LAST CHANCE SALOON

April 19, 2017

EXITING Irish Times editor Kevin O’Sullivan has expressed excitement at his new role as environment, agriculture and science editor but he put up... Read more »

MYERS AND MOTHERS’ MILK

April 5, 2017

EXHIBITING characteristic tenderness for society’s victims, Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers condemned those “pseudo republican papist zealots” and Irish society as a whole... Read more »

Post V. INM

April 5, 2017

DAVID McWILLIAMS has disappeared from the pages of the Sunday Business Post and is now disporting his flamboyant talents in the Saturday edition... Read more »

MORE POWER TO TRAVELLERS

March 23, 2017

SUNDAY TIMES hack Brenda Power, champion of settled people persecuted by jackbooted Travellers, offered an ingenious response within days of the government recognising... Read more »

HARRIS HEDGES BET

March 23, 2017

PUNTERS looking for guidance on the fluctuating Fine Gael leadership tussle should keep a watch on Sunday Independent seer Eoghan Harris who often... Read more »

INM Libels

March 23, 2017

WHAT a stirring clarion call to defend freedom of expression was made by Independent News & Media (INM) recently and what a compelling... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S BOSWELL

March 9, 2017

IS Denis O’Brien’s enthusiastic apologist, John J May, deliberately trying to provoke a libel writ from one or more principals in the Moriarty... Read more »

Cop Culture

March 9, 2017

WITH exquisite timing the current edition of Garda Review, organ of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), was published the day before the Policing... Read more »

RE-IMAGINING RTÉ

February 23, 2017

ON April Fool’s Day last year RTÉ board chair Moya Doherty announced the appointment of Dee Forbes as director general saying: “The appointment... Read more »

Irish Times inequality

February 23, 2017

JANUARY WAS undoubtedly a bad month for the paper of record, with its rivals gleefully seizing upon an admonishment by the Works Relations... Read more »

‘(S)INDO’ WOMEN FOR CHARLETON TRIBUNAL

February 23, 2017

THE Sunday Independent took another swipe at the Sunday Business Post last weekend via the Zozimus (Liam Collins) column with another litany of... Read more »

RONAN FANNING’S ‘WHITE NIGGER’

February 9, 2017

“A DEEP appreciation of the importance of archives” and “a relish for the power plays of high politics” were just two of the... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S DAMNED STATISTICS

February 9, 2017

COVERAGE of the latest JNLR (12 months to December 2016) radio ratings of Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk in Denis O’Brien’s Irish Independent was hilarious... Read more »

Sindo discretion

February 9, 2017

IRISH TIMES literary correspondent Eileen Battersby would not have been displeased at her newspaper’s review last autumn of her first novel, Teethmarks on... Read more »

Damery dismisses apology

January 25, 2017

AN apology appeared in the Irish Examiner last week to Ciaran Damery for wrongly accusing him of the rather serious crime of involvement... Read more »

IVAN YATES OFF AIR

January 25, 2017

THE return from his US sojourn of former minister, bookie and broadcaster Ivan Yates has not resulted in Denis O’Brien begging him to... Read more »

TK WHITAKER’S VIEW OF DENIS O’BRIEN

January 25, 2017

THE Sunday Independent wrote with typical hyperbole about recently deceased TK Whitaker, pointing out that he had been voted the greatest living Irish... Read more »

‘IT’ IGNORES CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL

January 12, 2017

THE Church of Ireland Gazette reported with commendable independence in November and December on the decades long scandal and tolerance of a St... Read more »

Nero lashes out

January 12, 2017

EVEN by Sindo standards the hatchet job by Jody Corcoran and Dan White on the Sunday Business Post last Christmas was splenetic. Apparently... Read more »

‘INDO’ SNOWFLAKES

January 12, 2017

THE hysterical reaction from Irish liberals to an Irish Times article explaining the opinions of the alt-right movement was distinctly illiberal as well... Read more »

DECLAN KELLY’S ENEMIES

December 14, 2016

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT hack, Maeve Sheehan did quite a hatchet job recently on transatlantic PR supremo, Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD, Alan Kelly.... Read more »

GAA’S SOUR NOTE

December 14, 2016

GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghaíl did not shoot his mouth off without any PR preparation when advocating that the organisation abandon the Irish... Read more »

CONOR BRADY SPILLS THE BEANS

December 1, 2016

A CLASSIC, obfuscating Irish Times editorial last week condemned Sinn Féin’s bill to insert neutrality into the constitution as “tilting at windmills”. The... Read more »

Forbes no fool

December 1, 2016

IS RTÉ director general Dee Forbes’s outsourcing of kiddies’ programmes really as cack-handed and insensitive as most seem to believe? Or is Forbes... Read more »

Denis O’Brien award

November 30, 2016

Sir, For the record, your statement that I wrote the citation for Peter Murtagh’s winning entry in the recent NewsBrands journalism competition is... Read more »

AFTER GARRETT HARTE AT NEWSTALK

November 3, 2016

THE announcement of Newstalk editor-in-chief Garrett Harte’s resignation came five days before the JNLR ratings for all stations. Coincidence? Hardly. But the shrewd... Read more »

BARREL OF LAUGHS FROM MARK HUMPHRYS

November 3, 2016

THE SUNDAY TIMES has recently published more than one column from DCU lecturer Mark Humphrys, the latest of which says that if Palestinians... Read more »

Mail hardship

November 3, 2016

GALLEY slaves at the Irish Daily and Sunday Mail were summoned to MD Paul Henderson’s annual state-of-the-nation address and, after years of slashed... Read more »

TEACHERS UNION LIBELS HACK

October 20, 2016

THE alleged campaign by Galway City Tribune journalist Dara Bradley against members of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) at Galway-Mayo Institute of... Read more »