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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 »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

‘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 »

‘IRISH TIMES’ VALUES

March 24, 2022

THERE WAS a time when a broadside from President Michael D Higgins, direct or indirect, against government policy would stimulate controversy and sometimes... Read more »

DOUGLAS GAGEBY’S LEGACY

March 10, 2022

THE ENTIRE Irish media has wrapped the Nato flag around itself and exhorted an unwilling population to back membership of either Nato or... Read more »

MCDOWELL’S WAR ON COUGHLAN

March 10, 2022

IT’S NOT just the media – the Irish Times as well as tabloid titles – that have reduced polemic about Russia, Ukraine, the... Read more »

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S PANDEMIC

February 24, 2022

GOOD NEWS from the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures about news and current affairs radio programmes was meted out to readers of... Read more »

MANDARIN MONTY PRESSES HIS CASE

February 24, 2022

GOOD TO see that the arbiters of press complaints – members of the Press Council of Ireland – who exist also to “promote... Read more »

‘SUN’ SUBS SACKED

February 10, 2022

CUTS AT the Irish edition of the Sunday Times have for years attracted attention as well as causing strife between Irish editorial colonials... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS SULKS OVER MEDIA AWARDS

February 10, 2022

WITH ETHICAL and egalitarian precepts in mind Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards were reorganised last year in a laudable effort to achieve balance, fairness... Read more »

PRICEY SEASONAL GESTURES

February 10, 2022

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES about soaring inflation – ‘highest in EU’ etc – are apt given the contribution of the newspaper owners themselves to this... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ STANDS FIRM

January 27, 2022

HAS THE Irish Times taken on the responsibility of confronting the forces of republican darkness in these dangerous times now that its own polls show... Read more »

BARONESS KATE HOEY AND THE IRA

January 13, 2022

PROVOCATIVE UNIONIST Baroness Kate Hoey attracted more attention than usual with her remarks about nationalists in various professions such as journalism and the... Read more »

RAIDER OF THE LOST TAX

January 13, 2022

NEW YEAR’S DAY is always a slow news day, but this hardly explains why the Irish Times devoted more than 2,500 words to... Read more »

BROWN SUES LONDON MET AND CPS

December 16, 2021

DANA ROSEMARY Scallon and her brother John Brown are near the final stages of their multiple actions against various media, securing apologies and... Read more »

THE MICA FALLOUT …AND THE CASSIDYS

December 16, 2021

A TORTUOUS Irish Times editorial thrashed about recently in search of answers – and suitable targets – to the mica scandal, pointing to... Read more »

BROWNE BEGGED HAUGHEY FOR CASH

December 2, 2021

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT extracts from the biography, Haughey, by academic Gary Murphy, opened with a passage about how the founder of Magill magazine, Vincent... Read more »

TWEED NON-STORY AND THE ‘IRISH TIMES’ 

December 2, 2021

THE RECENT death of former Ireland rugby player Davy Tweed did not excite interest on the Irish Times news pages. A brief sports supplement report... Read more »