Article Category: Fit to Print?

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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CoI SLEEPS SOUNDLY

December 14, 2023
LAST WEEK the Church of Ireland (CoI) and the Scouts Association forked out £100,000 in damages to Eddie Gorman, who was abused by Rev... Read more »

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NON-DISCLOSURE AT THE ‘IT’

December 14, 2023

IT LOOKS like the Irish Times DAC and also the IT Trust have weathered the stormy response of the National Union of Journalists... Read more »

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DUNNE-HAUGHEY: THE REAL STORY

November 30, 2023
Last Saturday Irish Times finance guru Cliff Taylor posted an account of how the story about Ben Dunne bunging Charlie Haughey £1.1m was researched... Read more »

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HELEN MCENTEE’S BAD PRESS

November 30, 2023
IRISH TIMES political editor Pat Leahy directed his sardonic derision at Helen McEntee last weekend following her embarrassing efforts to posture as a plausible... Read more »

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SINS OF THE FATHER

November 30, 2023

IT MAY be a coincidence but the fact that Sunday Independent columnist David Quinn wrote two weekly columns supporting Israel in three weeks... Read more »

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EOGHAN HARRIS’S LONG WAR

November 15, 2023

IRISH TIMES correspondent Ronan McGreevy celebrated the “bravura performance” of Eoghan Harris when the latter concluded last week’s conference on southern Protestants in... Read more »

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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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