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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 »

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 »

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 »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

RTÉ’S COLD WAR EXPERTS

October 20, 2016

IS RTÉ incapable of sourcing geopolitical analysts and commentators who are not seriously conflicted by vested interests in Western war games and in... Read more »

IAN O’DOHERTY’S CULTURE BLACK OUT

October 5, 2016

IRISH Independent shock jock, Ian O’Doherty, revels in dissing Muslims, feminists, gay activists etc and he has even had a pop at alcoholics... Read more »

Tasteful Times

October 5, 2016

THE Irish Times criteria for inclusion in its letters pages states merely that such letters should represent a wide range of opinion constrained... Read more »

O’Brien and media

October 5, 2016

SUNDAY Business Post coverage of Donald Trump’s onslaught against Denis O’Brien was a little hard to follow. Editor, Ian Kehoe suggested that it... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ AND AN EU ARMY

September 21, 2016

COVERAGE OF post Brexit developments by The Irish Times, whose own appetite for Irish involvement in an EU army has been consistently enthusiastic,... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS DUMPED BY NÓIRÍN

September 21, 2016

LIKE some unresolved lovers’ tiff, the Indo’s ace cops’n’robbers hack, Paul Williams (now also in Newstalk’s Breakfast line-up) and garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan... Read more »

UNA MULLALLY’S SURPRISING RANT

September 21, 2016

WOW! Irish Times columnist Una Mullally socked it to Apple, the “tech sector” and international corporations following the recent Apple tax scandal. These... Read more »

APPLE OF MEDIA EYE

September 7, 2016

FINANCE minister Michael Noonan’s ill-prepared handling of the €13bn (and counting) Apple tax EU ruling has led to the Irish Independent demanding his... Read more »

Holy Orders

September 7, 2016

RECENT Sunday Times coverage of “Angel of Death” priest Fr Michael Kennedy, a cousin of the American Kennedy clan, has given the inadvertent... Read more »

JUDGES’ ADVOCATE

September 7, 2016

INFLATED front page promotion two days running, masquerading as news stories, of Irish Times former legal affairs correspondent, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book, The... Read more »