Article Category: Fit to Print?

CORMAC LUCEY’S HOT AIR

November 15, 2023

Climate denial comes in all guises but Goldhawk was surprised to see it appear on the website of the august Chartered Accountants Ireland.... Read more »

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BOOKS EDITOR’S ‘CLASSIC’ BOOK

November 15, 2023

A NEW literary genius would appear to have been discovered and is working away, almost unknown and unrecognised, in the Irish media, judging... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: PRINT MEDIA NOT YET ON THE ROCKS

November 15, 2023

IRELAND’S PRINT media resembles the Titanic. With print revenues falling and digital income insufficient to make up the difference, disaster seems pre-programmed. But,... Read more »

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‘DISAPPEARED’ HACK

November 2, 2023
THERE WAS much revelry and mutual congratulation at Dublin’s Sugar Club to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sunday Worst in conjunction with Nicola... Read more »

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ISRAEL’S MEDIA CHAMPIONS

November 2, 2023
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’S new columnist, David Quinn, has been regurgitating all the disingenuous clichés about Israel’s critics being anti-Semitic, Hamas using people as human... Read more »

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STEPHEN RAE’S SETTLEMENT

November 2, 2023

A LONG-RUNNING High Court defamation case taken by the former editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) titles, Stephen Rae, against then Sunday... Read more »

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OFFALY ‘MURDER’ AND JUDGE’S ORDERS

October 18, 2023
DISTRICT COURT judge Andrew Cody clearly possesses a sophisticated and flexible legal brain and he has not moved to haul the Sunday Times into... Read more »

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‘ISRAEL’S BLOODY SUNDAY’

October 18, 2023
THE ISRAEL Defense Forces (IDF) may be good at carpet bombing Palestinians in civilian areas of Gaza but its public relations expertise leaves a... Read more »

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JOHN COONEY’S DEBATE

October 18, 2023

VETERAN AUTHOR and journalist John Cooney led the successful opposition to a students’ motion “regretting the fall of religion” at Trinity College Dublin... Read more »

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DANA’S LENGTHY LEGAL SAGA

October 5, 2023

THE LENGTHY legal journey that Dana – the singer and former MEP and presidential candidate, aka Rosemary Scallon – has embarked on over... Read more »

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GARDAÍ ACCUSED OF PRIVACY BREACH

October 5, 2023

AN INTRIGUING case that Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny is taking against not only Mediahuis title the Irish Independent but also An Garda... Read more »

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“PARTITIONIST” ALISON

October 5, 2023

What an unusual angle Alison O’Connor deployed in defending beleaguered Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in her Sunday Times column last weekend headlined, “Garda... Read more »

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LEAKS FROM RTÉ BOARD

September 21, 2023
BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S attack on RTÉ at last week’s Oireachtas media committee was colourful but it obscured an intriguing tussle between committee chair Niamh Smyth... Read more »

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THE HARP THAT ONCE…

September 21, 2023

WHEN MEDIAHUIS last year launched a strong campaign to abolish Vat on newspapers, it claimed that democracy in Ireland was threatened by any... Read more »

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CORRECTION

September 21, 2023

GOLDHAWK HAS been contacted by NewsBrands Ireland to point out that the newspaper lobby group, along with the Press Council of Ireland and... Read more »

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BANKING PROFESSOR O’KELLY

September 7, 2023

HOW REFRESHING to read an argument about the big banks’ behaviour that does not pander to the populist mob and tells it like... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS’S LEGAL BILLS

September 7, 2023

TWO THINGS are clear from the latest reports of the legal battle involving Mediahuis, ex-Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley and... Read more »

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IRELAND’S SARAJEVO

September 7, 2023

THE NUMBER of approving, even hyperbolic comments published in the Irish Times in the last two years about the book, Great Hatred: The... Read more »

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TUBS’S IMMODEST SUCCESSOR

August 24, 2023
MOST NEWSPAPERS could not resist listing the contenders to replace Ryan Tubridy in his radio morning slot and most were relatively objective in their... Read more »

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SEE NO EVIL, PRINT NO EVIL

August 24, 2023

THE COMPLICITY of the media in largely failing to highlight clerical child abuse unless it is perpetrated by Catholic clergy has recently been... Read more »

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‘SLAPPING’ THE MEDIA

August 10, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS greatly impressed by the deliberations of various politicians, lawyers and media executives who gathered at the Oireachtas joint committee on justice... Read more »

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STEVE AIKEN’S BROADSIDE

August 10, 2023

Steve Aiken, former Ulster Unionist Party leader from 2019 to 2021 and before that a commander on Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines, launched an... Read more »

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O’DEA V DOOLEY

August 10, 2023

Much media ink – and pixels – have been devoted to Fine Gael justice minister Helen McEntee in recent weeks, with quite a... Read more »

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SECTARIAN SCOPING INQUIRY

July 27, 2023
The Irish Times is refusing to publish on its news pages the fact that a ministerial scoping inquiry into abuse in day and boarding... Read more »

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BUGGER OFF!

July 27, 2023

IN WHAT must have ageing PSNI officers heaving with laughter at the sheer irony of it all, it has emerged that the filmmakers... Read more »

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AI REPORT PROLONGED

July 27, 2023

IRISH TIMES hack, Jennifer O’Connell was not five minutes in the role of opinion editor when that bogus article claiming the use of... Read more »

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DON’T HOLD THE FRONT PAGE

July 13, 2023

SOMETIMES IT’S not what you print but what you don’t print that tells a tale and, among those journalists who are somewhat conflicted... Read more »

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ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

July 13, 2023

LISTENING TO The Communications Clinic (CC) public relations manipulator, Anton Savage, interviewing film producer and media guru David Puttnam about public service broadcasting... Read more »

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WHAT’S THE STORY, RORY?

July 13, 2023
RETIRED DIRECTOR of strategy Rory Coveney said two things about his and RTÉ’s disastrous project, Toy Show The Musical, last week. The first was... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ SPLIT ON NEUTRALITY?

June 29, 2023
AFTER SEVERAL days of semi-hysterical reaction from Irish Times hacks to President Michael D Higgins calling out Micheál Martin’s forum on security for what... Read more »

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ANGLO-US MEDIA

June 29, 2023

PREDICTABLE DENUNCIATION of anti-war protesters at Micheál Martin’s security forum came from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times – Whitehall’s favourite Aawrish... Read more »

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IRISH TIMES MARCHES ON

June 28, 2023

TIME WAS when the Sunday Independent was the would-be Irish Tory trumpet in the media on foreign and domestic politics (think Eoghan Harris... Read more »

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UNA HEALY’S TRANSFORMATION

June 15, 2023
TV PRESENTER, singer and brand ambassador Una Healy appears to have multiple personalities and her energetic PR campaign has seen her rubbish reports of... Read more »

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VETTING ‘MALE’ REFUGEES AT INCH

June 15, 2023
FORMER COMMISSIONER of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and ex-RTÉ producer Betty Purcell has made an interesting complaint to RTÉ about the... Read more »

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JOHN DOWNING & THE BELGIANS

June 15, 2023

ERUDITE INDEPENDENT writer John Downing normally gives his newspaper titles a slightly higher tone but what are we to make of Downing’s apparently... Read more »

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‘SEE NO SECTARIANISM …’

June 1, 2023

THE IRISH TIMES lasered in on the Government’s scoping inquiry into abuse “at private fee paying schools” recently, but its article had little... Read more »

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