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‘IT’ EDITORIAL FACTIONS

September 22, 2022

THE EDITORIAL view of some journalists at the Irish Times is that the newspaper is conventional (ie right-wing), overtly pro-business, partitionist and old... Read more »

RTÉ BOYCOTTS DANA

September 8, 2022

THE CRASS behaviour by RTÉ in failing to invite Dana to participate in the RTÉ Concert Orchestra celebration of Eurovision is still confounding... Read more »

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LYNN RUANE’S PARTY

September 8, 2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES’ Atticus column recently published a sniffy piece about “Sinn Féin politician” Senator Lynn Ruane, who failed in her complaint to... Read more »

REVISIONIST FEUD

September 8, 2022

THE FEUD between two media academics and politicos continues at TCD next week when historian Eve Morrison gives a lecture about the November... Read more »

MAKING THE MEDIA GRADE

August 25, 2022

AFTER THREATENING last February to walk out of Newsbrands Ireland post haste – because its titles were “treated unfairly” in Newsbrands journalism awards... Read more »

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VICKY CONWAY’S CONCERNS

August 25, 2022

THE MEDIA tributes to academic and policing expert Vicky Conway reflected the genuine esteem in which she was held by her peers. But... Read more »

MEDIA EYES UP SF

August 25, 2022

IS THE media reverting to its previous attack-dog role against Sinn Féin after a truce of sorts since the general election and more... Read more »

MEDIA TAKES ON HIGGINS — AND LOSES

August 11, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES got out of jail a fortnight ago courtesy of Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov, who opportunistically embraced Sabina Higgins’s letter to... Read more »

CATCHING UP WITH HENRY MCDONALD

August 11, 2022

IT WILL be interesting to see just what the book released this week – Rewriting the Troubles: Ireland/Algeria – says about the Workers’... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS’S ‘SCUM’

August 11, 2022

IN ALL the analysis of the crisis at the Sunday Times Irish edition, perhaps the most poignant was an article arguing that what... Read more »

PENNY MORDAUNT’S REBEL IRISH ROOTS

July 28, 2022

WHAT FASCINATING information emerged in the media recently about the Republican activities of failed Tory leadership contender, Penny Mordaunt and her predecessors in... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS RESHUFFLES EDITORS

July 28, 2022

PETER VANDERMEERSCH enjoyed the title of publisher of Mediahuis Ireland until recently but from next Monday he will glory in the title of... Read more »

NEWSPAPER COVER PRICE INFLATION

July 28, 2022

THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, last Sunday week, front-paged its story of Johnny Ronan’s bid to “up price of housing” at the Irish Glass Bottle site... Read more »

MCINERNEY FAVOURITE

July 14, 2022

WITH RSVP citing Sarah McInerney as favourite at 3/1 to take over Claire Byrne Live — the RSVP list ran to nine presenters with the... Read more »

JON WILLIAMS’S SUCCESSORS

July 14, 2022

MINOR MYSTERY surrounded that Covid-19 super-spreader going-away party attended by RTÉ broadcasters recently. This is presumed to have assisted the infection of some... Read more »

ABUSE OF SDLP MEMBERS

July 14, 2022

SDLP MLA, Cara Hunter, received much sympathetic media coverage, north and south, after she was targeted with online porn smears. This falsely depicted... Read more »

FIRST CASUALTY

June 30, 2022

THE CORDIAL and professional relationship enjoyed by poet Kevin Higgins and Irish Times books editor Martin Doyle is probably down to their shared,... Read more »

BILLY BINGHAM’S GESTURES

June 30, 2022

RECENT OBITUARIES to Northern Ireland soccer manager and player, Billy Bingham, in the Irish Times and Sunday Independent were positive, cheery even, as... Read more »

MI5’S CHINATOWN

June 30, 2022

IT HAPPENED 10 years ago but MI5, which takes an uncommonly keen interest in Irish affairs judging by the spooky stories in the Sunday... Read more »

DENIS STAUNTON’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

June 16, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES obviously believes it has turned a corner if the planned posting of London correspondent Denis Staunton to Beijing comes to... Read more »

BALLOT BOX AND THE TWEET

June 16, 2022

HOPEFULLY A spirit of harmonious academic dialogue will prevail at the Seán MacDiarmada Summer School this weekend where Irish Times journalist and author... Read more »

RIGHT-WING ECONOMISTS COP ON

June 16, 2022

THE DEBATE engineered by Europhiles and generals aimed at abolishing neutrality egged on by the Irish Times Greek chorus has proved unsuccessful so... Read more »

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ VS GOLDHAWK

June 2, 2022

POOR GOLDHAWK is reeling from a frenzied attack by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times whose associate editor, John Burns, is very... Read more »

JANE MAHONY’S LETTER

June 2, 2022

A DETAILED and erudite letter to the Irish Times last week took issue with Catholic writer and columnist Breda O’Brien for saying in... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ HAS BAD ELECTION

May 19, 2022

THE LATHER of excitement about the northern assembly elections whipped up by the Irish Times – stimulated by its craving for the hallowed... Read more »

FT’S UNITED IRELAND LECTURE

May 19, 2022

WHAT AN interesting comment Financial Times contributing editor Philip Stephens made in his column last weekend about preparations (or not) for a united... Read more »

OLD LADY OF TARA STREET’S TRUSTEES

May 19, 2022

WHAT A perfect business pedigree newly appointed governor of the Irish Times Trust, Maeve Carton, possesses and how well she will fit in... Read more »

‘STAR’ KOs KINAHAN

May 5, 2022

BELATED VINDICATION accrued to the Irish Daily Star recently when the US of A led the western world in turning against the Kinahans... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S AWARDS

May 5, 2022

A WARM glow descended on the grandiose awards ceremony run by Business & Finance magazine when it came to the special TK Whitaker... Read more »

AZOV HUMAN RIGHTS

May 5, 2022

IRISH-SPEAKING Nadia Dobrianska works for a human rights organisation in her native Kyiv and has become quite the Irish media darling. Dobrianska works for... Read more »

JOHN KILRAINE: RTÉ’S MAN IN LONDON

April 20, 2022

LONG-TIME RTÉ Dublin correspondent John Kilraine is switching capital cities to become the station’s London corr, a logical step in one sense in... Read more »

MAJORITY DISAGREE WITH ‘IRISH TIMES’!

April 20, 2022

PATHOLOGICAL EUROPHILES at the Irish Times were gobsmacked at the rebuff received from the newspaper’s poll asking if people wanted to abandon neutrality.... Read more »

ALL KINDS OF DEFAMATION

April 20, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES is the latest newspaper to concede defeat and cough up a serious sum of money to John Brown, brother of... Read more »

‘ST’ BURNS LECTURES ‘RT’ MCDONALD

April 7, 2022

IN HIS quest to dish it to Irish journalist Brian McDonald, of RT (formerly Russia Today), the associate editor of the Sunday Times aawrish edition, John Burns, ransacked the... Read more »

‘RTÉ’S EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES’

April 7, 2022

IF TRUTH is the first casualty of war then Montrose should be littered with journalists’ corpses given its by now standard coverage of... Read more »

RTÉ’S UKRAINIAN EXPERTS

March 24, 2022

DR PATRICK BURY is regularly interviewed by RTÉ on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is introduced as a lecturer at Bath university... Read more »