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‘COOL KID’ BRENDAN O’CONNOR

August 22, 2024

RTÉ AND Sunday Independent front-page commentator Brendan O’Connor clearly felt the need to reinvent himself as a man with empathy when he moved... Read more »

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GARDA INTEL FEARS

August 22, 2024

NATIONAL SECURITY fears were issued via the media and its supportive crime journalists late last year when the punitive pension tax bills facing... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORS

August 22, 2024

COVERAGE OF the recent conviction of prolific child abuser Derry O’Rourke in the Irish Times was a commendable, warranted catalogue of outrage against... Read more »

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THE ‘CURRENCY’ AND ‘WEIRD’ INM REPORT

August 8, 2024

THE ENORMOUSLY expensive (€5.67m) and lengthy (six years) High Court inspectors’ report into various goings-on at Independent News & Media (INM) has laboured... Read more »

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FIONNUALA ON EDNA O’BRIEN

August 8, 2024

IRISH TIMES columnist Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond wisely decided to choose the New Statesman rather than her weekly Irish platform for a treatise on... Read more »

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IT’S NOT CRICKET

July 25, 2024

ONE OF the most enduring lines peddled by post peace process British securocrats, and enthusiastically relayed by the UK and Dublin media’s security... Read more »

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‘MY CHURCH, RIGHT OR WRONG’

July 25, 2024

Last December, The Irish Times published a statement from the Church of Ireland in a report by Arthur Beesley saying that it “neither owned nor operated”... Read more »

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DOUBLE STANDARDS AT THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

July 11, 2024
JUSTIFIABLY, AND admirably, newspapers, and TV and radio programmes reported and commented on the recent suspended sentence for soldier Cathal Crotty, who viciously assaulted... Read more »

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ULSTER-SCOTS’ PR

July 11, 2024

TIME WAS when one of the few unionists to see positive benefits in the peace process was ludicrous Lord Laird, who milked the... Read more »

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RTÉ TOLD: DO MORE WITH LESS

July 11, 2024
RTÉ’s decision to outsource Fair City and The Late Late Show to outside production companies has been greeted with anger by Montrose trade unions... Read more »

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IAN KEHOE’S ‘CURRENCY’ RATE

June 27, 2024

SIGNS ARE that Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, joint owners of digital financial publication the Currency, are intent on selling their company, judging... Read more »

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CLARE DALY AND THE ‘IT’

June 27, 2024

IS THE Irish Times worried that many readers recognise that its hounding of Dublin MEP Clare Daly helped to unseat her and nearly... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS SHEDS HACKS

June 27, 2024

AS MEDIAHUIS continues to cut a swathe through its workforce, the genial, soft-spoken Mediahuis chief executive, Peter Vandermeersch, has been issuing soothing statements... Read more »

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MEDIA AND CHURCH RED FACES

June 13, 2024

THERE WERE red faces for the north’s justice minister, Alliance leader Naomi Long, and her officials, who can add non-competence to the party’s... Read more »

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PAUL TWEED’S MATCHMAKER

June 13, 2024

An intriguing mention in the Irish Times recently reported that dating agency Intro Matchmaking is seeking an injunction against one of its former... Read more »

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‘MORNING IRELAND’ REPLACEMENT

June 13, 2024

NOW THAT the venerable Dobbo’s replacement on RTÉ’s News at One has been appointed – Morning Ireland’s Rachel English – speculation about who... Read more »

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GOLDEN BOY’S TARNISHED IMAGE

May 30, 2024

IT IS natural that the grown-up children of Tony O’Reilly would praise their father’s qualities in funeral eulogies, as would any bereaved family... Read more »

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O’DEA’S MEDIA MESSAGE TO MARTIN

May 16, 2024

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S media maestro, Paul Clarkson, and Martin’s political brain, Deirdre Gillane, will have been very interested in the take of former minister,... Read more »

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‘INDEPENDENT’ MEDIA FUNDING

May 16, 2024

FOREIGN MINISTER and Tanáiste Micheál Martin continues to publicly and loudly mount a heroic defence against media minister Catherine Martin’s proposals for the... Read more »

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STEPHEN REA’S PERFORMANCE

May 16, 2024

AN INTERESTING, alternative treatment of the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings – one that involves award-winning actor Stephen Rea – is Frank Connolly’s novel, A... Read more »

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IAN HYLAND’S UCD BASH

May 2, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO Business & Finance publisher-turned-grandee Ian Hyland, who didn’t let the small matter of Gaza get in the way of a day... Read more »

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‘BALANCED’ DEBATE ON GAZA GENOCIDE

May 2, 2024
THE DOGMATIC radicals among Irish supporters of the Palestinians are outraged at the aesthetes on the editorial team at RTÉ’s arts programme, Arena, who... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS’S MEDALS

May 2, 2024

MEDIAHUIS’S EDITORIAL supremo, Cormac Bourke, told staff last year that the media awards organised by NewsBrands – now franchised out by NewsBrands –... Read more »

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IRISH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

April 18, 2024

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times appears to have corrected its revisionist line on British foreign policy and has been brought to... Read more »

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CROSS (VERY CROSS) BORDER VIEWS

April 18, 2024

IRISH TIMES northern editor Freya McClements wrote extensively and flatteringly about the longest-serving newspaper editor in these islands, Noel Doran, who is retiring... Read more »

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HUGH O’CONNELL’S LONG GOODBYE

April 4, 2024

THE EXIT of Hugh O’Connell from Mediahuis, where he was deputy group political editor working for the Sindo and Indo, came at a... Read more »

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TARGETING MARTIN MCGUINNESS

April 4, 2024

RECENT SUGGESTIONS from the Sunday Independent and interpretations by others that the BBC Two’s programme, The Secret Army, shows Martin McGuinness was an... Read more »

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LIBERAL MEDIA DEBATES FAR RIGHT

April 4, 2024

APPEASEMENT IS a notion that some media columnists are using and debating right now in the face of a right-wing backlash against so-called... Read more »

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ANOTHER KENNEALLY SCANDAL

March 21, 2024

CHILD ABUSER Bill Kenneally, a member of the well-known Fianna Fáil family, is in jail for multiple child sex offences committed between 1979... Read more »

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BAD ADVICE

March 21, 2024

ROLL OF honour or street of shame? A hefty, three-page catalogue of the Government’s 68 advisors, national handlers and media manipulators drawn up... Read more »

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ARAGE IMAGERY SLAMMED

March 21, 2024

THE BUSINESS POST provoked a storm on X recently with a studious and well-meaning article, by Aidan Regan, on immigration and how to... Read more »

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U2 WINS AWARD SHOCK!

March 7, 2024

ON THURSDAY March 7 U2 are to receive this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Classic Irish Album for their 1991 album Achtung... Read more »

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‘GRIPT’ GIFT TO EU RIGHT

March 7, 2024

A SPAT between Gript correspondent Ben Scallan and Leo Varadkar at the end of a recent Government press conference led to a focus... Read more »

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BOG STANDARD ‘IRISH TIMES’ BEHAVIOUR

March 7, 2024

WHAT COMMONSENSE Irish Times media columnist Laura Slattery dispensed recently when deriding “everybody involved in RTÉ’s rolling crisis” as having “lost the plot”.... Read more »

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‘IT’ BOTTLENECK

March 7, 2024

A RECENT SPECIAL by David McWilliams in the Irish Times Weekend Review told readers: “In Dún Laoghaire a battle for the heart and... Read more »

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RELIGIOUS CENSORS AT ‘IRISH TIMES’

February 22, 2024

THE CENSORSHIP continues of letters and submissions to the Irish Times that challenge the newspaper’s view of unique Catholic repression and abuse in... Read more »

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