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‘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 »

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WHAT MATTERS AT RTE?

March 24, 2022

RTÉ NEWS unveiled its ‘Truth Matters’ campaign in September 2020 with its own section on the RTÉ News website, including articles, videos and... 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 »

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LITERARY LOVE-IN

February 22, 2022

FINTAN O’TOOLE and John Banville have incurred the ridicule of British satirical mag Private Eye, despite their deserved status as two of Britain’s favourite... Read more »

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‘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 »

KATY HAYES AND THE WOMEN

January 27, 2022

TIMING IS, as they say, everything. But while most British readers may not have been outraged at last week’s Sunday Times critical tract, “too many... Read more »

FILM CENSORED

January 27, 2022

FILM-MAKER Teresa Lavina says film festivals and cinemas have been unwilling to screen her documentary ‘Untold Secrets’ centering on a survivor of the... 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 »

MATT COOPER V RTE

January 13, 2022

MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, albeit a little less so since he chucked in his Tonight Show gig on Virgin Media... 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 »

SHATTER V MAIL ON SUNDAY

December 2, 2021

ALAN SHATTER has been pursuing the Mail on Sunday and its political writer John Drennan for some time after he delivered a line... 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 »

GERRY ADAMS’S ACTIONS

November 18, 2021

CONFUSION SURROUNDS the settlement between Gerry Adams and the Sunday World following the tabloid’s apology for claiming in 2015 that the then Sinn... Read more »

THE ‘SINDO’ AND ITS NORTHERN EDITION

November 18, 2021

SUNDAY TIMES scribe John Burns emphasised the dilemma of a southern newspaper – the Sunday Independent’s newly launched northern edition — trying to... Read more »

TWEETS ACROSS THE BORDER

November 18, 2021

IT’S COMFORTING to learn that the Queen’s Writ has found a means to reach across the border to the republic via Twitter. The courts in... Read more »

Eoghan Harris’s demise as Sindo columnist was linked more with the national question than the posting of any alleged bullying, sexist or misogynistic tweets.

ANNUAL 2021: PRINT – MEDIA SANS HARRIS AND O’BRIEN

November 18, 2021

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT trumpet, Eoghan Harris’s public shaming and downfall, together with an improved financial performance at some of Ireland’s leading media businesses, dominated... Read more »

VERONICA GUERIN: ‘SINDO’ REVISIONISM

November 4, 2021

THE DEATH last week of John Traynor, a gangland criminal source of Veronica Guerin who was also suspected of fingering her for her... Read more »

JOHN BURNS’S SIGN-OFF

November 4, 2021

DISAPPOINTED APPLICANT for the post of Irish Sunday Times editor, John Burns, signed off as acting editor last Sunday with an interesting editorial... Read more »

PARTITION: McALEESE AND HIGGINS

November 4, 2021

IN EFFORTS to re-educate President Higgins and the public for supporting his boycott of the church event marking the centenary of partition, two... Read more »

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE

October 21, 2021

RTÉ’S HEAD of news, Jon Williams, made some “important announcements” to staff recently as he completed a headlong retreat from the station’s previous... Read more »

BARRY WALSH’S REVIEW

October 21, 2021

THE SOMEWHAT severe Sunday Times’ review of Conor Lenihan’s biography of late taoiseach and FF leader Albert Reynolds, entitled Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace, was penned by... Read more »

BAD BOY HIGGINS

October 21, 2021

GOOD TO see that more mature voices felt moved last weekend to correct the populist posturing over the commemoration of partition and the... Read more »

TAKING ‘FLACKS’ IN THE MEDIA

October 7, 2021

NEWSTALK’S ANNOUNCEMENT of Anton Savage and Mandy Johnston as anchor presenters for the station’s current affairs and business programmes says much about new... Read more »

MARTIN O’HAGAN’S KILLING

October 7, 2021

THE CANT surrounding the 2001 UVF murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan by the then Independent News & Media heads has been... Read more »