Fit to Print? Archives

DAMNED STATISTICS AND THE ‘INDO’

August 24, 2016

THE Irish Independent devoted its entire page three last Friday to a boastful commentary on the latest ABC circulation figures, year on year... Read more »

Indo rules OK

August 24, 2016

THE evisceration of sports minister Shane Ross by the Irish Independent in recent weeks is only the latest of several campaigns and political... Read more »

DE PAPER’S QUEST FOR A NEW EDITOR

August 24, 2016

ONE of the Irish Examiner’s in-house front runners to replace outgoing editor Tim Vaughan is deputy editor/sports editor Tony Leen. But there are... Read more »

LET HACKS EAT CAKE

August 10, 2016

IRISH TIMES Ltd MD Liam Kavanagh was mistaken if he thought his recent message to staff would temper the hacks’ displeasure about yet... Read more »

Deirdre Foley’s PR

August 10, 2016

CONGRATS to FleishmanHillard which is making herculean efforts to rehabilitate the battered public image of new Clerys’ owner Deirdre Foley, who had been... Read more »

ALISON O’REILLY’S GUARDIAN ANGEL

August 10, 2016

A COPY of the Irish Mail on Sunday’s (IMS) inquiry into that “interview” given to its reporter, Alison O’Reilly, by Louise James(James’s partner,... Read more »

EOGHAN HARRIS HOUNDS HALAWA

July 28, 2016

AS IF Ibrahim Halawa, jailed for three years in Egypt without trial and facing a possible death penalty, had not enough to contend... Read more »

MCD’s blacklist

July 28, 2016

IS Irish Independent feature writer and music critic John Meagher the latest disrespectful hack to fall foul of omnipotent music promoters MCD Productions?... Read more »

DEE FORBES’S GOODBYE KISS

July 28, 2016

RTE’S NEW director general Dee Forbes gave her “enormously talented” charges a corporate pep talk via a memo to staff when she landed... Read more »

PAT CAREY’S PRIVACY CASE

July 15, 2016

THE mother of all High Court cases is coming down the tracks in the form of ex-minister, Pat Carey’s action for breach of... Read more »

New Presenter for Drive Time

July 15, 2016

BRAVELY, Sarah McInerney, due to co-host Newstalk’s new Drivetime programme in September, has left The Sunday Times to take up her new job.... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS’ WAR

July 15, 2016

“Just to be clear. I thought then and think now, that the moral argument in favour of America intervening in Saddam’s Iraq was... Read more »

Loveable loyalists

July 2, 2016

The impeccable behaviour of the Irish soccer fans has provoked a cross community response from some quarters that argues the Norn Iron fans... Read more »

GSOC Vs INDO

July 2, 2016

JUSTICE Frank Clarke’s inquiry into the conduct of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) in an investigation that saw Sergeant Michael Galvin take... Read more »

Dumb Dearbhail

July 2, 2016

Goldhawk wrote last February that Dearbhail McDonald was agonising about taking the group business editor’s post at INM because of the delicacy of... Read more »

RTÉ POL CORR CONTEST

June 17, 2016

THE two senior political journalists in the state, RTÉ’s political correspondent, David Davin-Power (DDP), and Irish Times political editor Stephen Collins, are due... Read more »

Irish Examiner’s preoccupation

June 17, 2016

THE Irish Examiner’s preoccupation with anniversaries of IRA outrages in the Republic 20 and 30 years ago is proving to be a litigious... Read more »

COSTS PUT SCREW ON RED FLAG

June 17, 2016

WHILE Denis O’Brien continues his compulsive, serial litigation against anybody that blinks at him, the most insidious legal vendetta he is pursuing is... Read more »

GARDAÍ AND MEDIA LEAKS

June 1, 2016

A THOROUGH breakdown of Judge Kevin O’Higgins’ findings on whistleblower Garda Maurice McCabe’s eight central allegations against the force were published in The... Read more »

IRISH TIMES Vs DENIS O’BRIEN

June 1, 2016
LOOKS as though The Irish Times has summoned up previously untapped reserves of courage and is engaged in a serious confrontation with the most... Read more »

SF MOVES AGAINST O’BRIEN “MONOPOLY”

May 18, 2016

FANS of The Irish Times and Irish Examiner – but not those of the Irish Independent – will have read recently a report... Read more »

Politically correct?

May 18, 2016

DOES Irish Times columnist and ex-Fianna Fáil back room functionary, Noel Whelan, not believe he should retract and apologise for his entirely erroneous... Read more »

VINCENT BROWNE’S SUCCESSOR

May 18, 2016

TV3 management is anxiously calculating just how long Vincent Browne will wait before retiring from his late night show and is scouring the... Read more »

Pig-Headed Litigant

May 5, 2016

THE jury in a looming High Court libel case against the Sunday World will be presented with a catalogue of crime – some... Read more »

O’CONNOR AIRBRUSHES DENIS O’BRIEN

May 5, 2016

A SELECTION of 100 defining moments in the last century by Brendan O’Connor in the Sunday Independent was more interesting for what was... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN Vs IRISH TIMES

May 5, 2016

DAYS before the end of the one year period within which a defamation action can be taken, Denis O’Brien has lodged a writ... Read more »

Vincent Browne to Retire?

April 21, 2016

LOOKS as though not just Ivan Yates but also that other big broadcasting beast, Vincent Browne, is on his way out of the... Read more »

SEAN O’CALLAGHAN’S EVIDENCE

April 21, 2016

WHAT a spoilsport the Irish Examiner has turned out to be with its failure to defend a libel action from Tralee’s James Sheehan,... Read more »

LYING DRUG MULE OR MISSIONARY?

April 21, 2016

THE Indo and Sindo managed to transform Michaella McCollum from an Aids charity worker to lying drugs pusher and back again to charity... Read more »

Ní Bheoláin Libel

April 7, 2016

PRIVACY is fast becoming the new weapon of choice by those who claim undue coverage of their affairs in the media, and two... Read more »

THE GUARDIAN ON IRELAND

April 7, 2016

PUBLISHERS Cork University Press (CUP), recently advertised an interesting critique of the Northern troubles, entitled Britain’s Algeria, France’s Ireland, written by Toronto based... Read more »

IRISH TIMES: 1916-2016

April 7, 2016

THE Irish Times souvenir edition of the 1916 Rising managed the notable feat of airbrushing out of history not only Sinn Féin but... Read more »

Business Post vacancies

March 24, 2016

THE departure of Pat Leahy from the Sunday Business Post to The Irish Times (his deputy political editor title indicating that he will... Read more »

MCD BLACKLIST CRITIC

March 24, 2016

A WELL written review of musicians like “bestubbled young guitar strummer, Hozier” – too well written – by music critic Ed Power for... Read more »

SINN FÉIN LIBEL LOOT

March 24, 2016

THE media onslaught against Sinn Féin has not been entirely without consequence but it is RTÉ, not the Irish Independent, that faces High... Read more »

UL Ponders Libel Action

March 9, 2016

UNIVERSITY of Limerick president and vice-president, Don Barry and Paul McCutcheon respectively, are weighing up the unpalatable prospect of backing down from the... Read more »