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JODY CORCORAN CALLS IT

April 5, 2023

BLOODY POLLS. They can make whizz psephologists such as the Sunday Independent’s Jody Corcoran look positively foolish, with banal stats that take no... Read more »

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‘IT’ CENSORS DENIS O’BRIEN

March 23, 2023

THE IRISH TIMES editorial office is locked in ethical debate about whether to publish a letter on behalf of mega-mogul, Denis O’Brien. His... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ IMPLOSION

March 23, 2023

THE PURGE or exodus of seasoned journalists from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times has been well chronicled in these pages, as... Read more »

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SPY GAMES

March 22, 2023

TWO SHARPLY contrasting takes on alleged Russian ‘spy’ Marina Sologub – booted out by Australian authorities and the subject of much spooky speculation... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORSHIP

March 8, 2023

THE RECENT statement to the Irish Times from various TDs and senators proposing a peace dialogue in Ukraine was responded to by a... Read more »

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EILIS O’HANLON’S ‘INTERNALISED LOATHING’

March 8, 2023

THE JOINT committee on children, equality, disability, integration and youth held a discussion on “integration and refugee issues” in the Dáil last month,... Read more »

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DANA V VIRGIN MEDIA

March 8, 2023

ONE OF the last defamation actions in the raft of such cases undertaken by Dana following the acquittal on all charges of child... Read more »

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COLOUR-BLIND CRITICS

February 22, 2023

HUGH LINEHAN has been conspicuously silent about the race row over nominations to the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022. The IT’s arts... Read more »

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GLOBAL MEDIA FUNDING

February 22, 2023

THE LAST edition of The Phoenix (see issue 10/2/23) drew attention to the media group-think and bias about Nato’s proxy war against Russia... Read more »

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IAN KEHOE’S RTE CONCERNS

February 22, 2023
WHAT A remarkably detailed account of last September’s RTÉ board minutes was made available to the Sindo’s Mark Tighe last Sunday. And how prominent... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ TICKS OFF ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

February 9, 2023

THE TRANSFORMATION of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times from heavyweight editorial to low-brow human-interest stories is a direct result of London’s... Read more »

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RARE SPORT AT THE ‘EXAMINER’

February 9, 2023

BORN-AGAIN HACK Ian Mallon, formerly a senior editorial exec with Independent News and Media (INM) and then a public relations pro with the... Read more »

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MEEK MEDIA AND PASCHAL DONOHOE

January 26, 2023

THE INITIALLY tardy attitude of most media to allegations that Paschal Donohoe’s breached election expenses rules is hard to explain (see p3). Surely... Read more »

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SIMON CARSWELL’S SILVER MEDALS

January 26, 2023

IRISH EXAMINER political editor Danny McConnell took the job as Business Post editor ahead of Simon Carswell, the public affairs editor and former... Read more »

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OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

January 26, 2023

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS believe an imposter may have used Eoghan Harris’s identity on social media to launch an attack on the British royal family... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ CRITICS

January 12, 2023

“SPECIAL CONSIDERATION shall be given to the reasonable representation of minority interests and divergent views,” according to the “principles of the Irish Times”.... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS RETREAT

January 12, 2023

EFFORTS BY Mediahuis, publishers of Independent titles and others north and south, to colonise the Sunday market in the north via the Sunday... Read more »

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RTÉ’S MILITARY ‘EXPERTS’

January 12, 2023

TWO DAYS after Christmas RTÉ’s Morning Ireland interviewed the Atlantic Council’s Nicholas Blanford, an expert on the Middle East. Listeners were told that... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ AND CHILD ABUSE

December 15, 2022

ON NOVEMBER 21 last, the Irish Times published a brief report on the passing of 81-year-old Derek Linster (also known as Derek Leinster).... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS SUED

December 15, 2022

RTÉ AND Sunday Independent journalist Brendan O’Connor has arrived late to the privacy party being reluctantly hosted by Mediahuis, owners of the Indo... Read more »

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RTÉ’S ‘TOY SHOW’ DIRGE

December 15, 2022

MEDIA PREVIEWS of Toy Show The Musical were ecstatic, describing the lavish and very expensive production as the “perfect recipe… an instant Christmas... Read more »

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MEDIA GONGS TO BE SILENCED?

December 1, 2022

GOLDHAWK SPECULATED recently that Mediahuis titles might show a marked improvement in the NewsBrands Ireland awards this year compared with their humiliation in... Read more »

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IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY

December 1, 2022

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains... Read more »

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GO, HARVEY, GO!

December 1, 2022

IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals... Read more »

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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN

November 17, 2022

REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light... Read more »

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WHAT A LOVELY WAR

November 17, 2022

AMID MEDIA hand-wringing about Ukraine and Nato propaganda masquerading as journalism, it takes a small NGO to reveal who has really been making... Read more »

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NO IMPEACHMENT AT TRINNERS

November 17, 2022

IT’S BEEN a rocky start for Ailbhe Noonan, newly elected editor of University Times, the Irish student publication of the year for six... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: PRINT – OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

November 17, 2022

UPHEAVALS AT the top of Irish newspapers dominated the print and online market this year. The four or five leading titles all saw... Read more »

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COLD MESS

November 2, 2022

IRELAND’S LOSS is Europe’s gain, as Damien O’Reilly trades in his gig as presenter of RTÉ radio’s Countrywide to head up the Brussels... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS AWARDS NOMINATIONS SOAR

November 2, 2022

WHAT A hugely enhanced performance has taken place in the standard of journalism at Mediahuis – the largest publishing stable in the country... Read more »

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IT V SF

November 2, 2022

AMID THE welter of media hit jobs on Sinn Féin in the last fortnight, the most surprising such assault came from accomplished Irish... Read more »

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RTÉ’S NEW CHAIR

October 19, 2022

THE SHORTLIST of applicants to replace the chair of the RTÉ board, Moya Doherty, is down to three: super successful broadcaster and digital... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE CULL

October 19, 2022

SOMETHING OF a cultural counter-revolution is happening at the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, where new staff to replace the allegedly over-paid... Read more »

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PLUGGING STEPHEN COLLINS

October 19, 2022

HOPEFULLY PUBLIC ennui with Brexit will not diminish sales of the recently published book, Ireland’s Call: Navigating Brexit, by Irish Times columnist and... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ SAVES COVENEY’S BLUSHES

October 6, 2022

INCORRIGIBLE JOURNALIST Sally Hayden recently spoiled one of those feel-good occasions so beloved by Irish ministers when they posture as benevolent, first-world statesmen... Read more »

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OAKLEY EXITS POST

October 6, 2022

THE DEPARTURE of Business Post editor Richie Oakley is just the latest such resignation and underlines the flight of national editors from their... Read more »

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