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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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GUINNESS GUFF

February 22, 2024

THE SPECIAL pleading from Diageo against the imminent banning of its five-axle lorries from the city centre has the finger prints of a... Read more »

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MIRIAM AND BRENDA SOCK IT TO THOMAS

February 22, 2024

IRISH TIMES columnist Miriam Lord gave Fianna Fáil minister Thomas Byrne, the party’s leader on the referendums, a good talking to recently and... Read more »

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MARK’S ISRAELI VICTIMS

February 8, 2024

THE REVIVAL of an Israeli PR blunder – unusual for the well-resourced PR machine of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) –... Read more »

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POLLS DISTORT REFUGEE ‘CRISIS’

February 8, 2024

ARE THE ‘quality’ broadsheet Sunday newspapers reflecting the crisis and anger about immigration or are they stimulating it with sensationalist coverage? Scrutiny of... Read more »

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BASHFUL BRENDAN O’CONNOR

February 8, 2024

RTÉ PRESENTER and Sindo front-page commentator Brendan O’Connor has turned out to be the shy, retiring type, despite giving the impression of being... Read more »

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RTÉ ACCUSED OF GAZA BIAS

January 25, 2024
HAS THE predicted subservience of a demoralised and virtually bankrupt RTÉ come to pass already, with the station fearful of upsetting the Government in... Read more »

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DANA’S COMPLAINT

January 25, 2024

ONE OF the last defamation battles that singer, ex-MEP and former presidential candidate Dana has to sort out is, ironically, one that resulted... Read more »

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‘CURRENCY’ EXCHANGE?

January 25, 2024

AS GOLDHAWK reported last year, the lofty “overarching philosophy” of The Currency is the creation of “journalism that is fearless, focused and always... Read more »

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DEIRDRE VELDON’S LOVE LETTER

January 11, 2024

JOURNALISTS AT the Irish Times – once jealously regarded by their peers elsewhere as the pampered literati of the newspaper world – were... Read more »

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ARSON ABOUT

January 11, 2024

THOSE MOST-favoured words of security correspondents, “security… senior… sources”, can cover a multitude of issues when gardaí want to get a message across... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ NEW LINE

January 11, 2024

THE NEW editorial regime at the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times – with editor Kieran McDaid and associate editor Michael McNiff –... Read more »

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‘MIRROR’ OVER REACHES ITSELF

December 14, 2023

THE ELEVATION of Irish Sun editor Kieran McDaid to the hot seat occupied until recently by Nóirín Hegarty at the Aarish edition of... Read more »

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