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DES O’MALLEY’S MEDIA FOES

July 29, 2021

IF DES O’MALLEY did not suffer fools gladly he endured certain hacks – those who were not part of the near idolatrous Desocrats... Read more »

‘SINDO’ HIDES HARRIS FROM VIEW

July 29, 2021

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English sacked long-time columnist Eoghan Harris last May because, he said, Harris had written “contemptible” tweets under the pseudonymous... Read more »

BASHING BLUESHIRT BIAS

July 15, 2021

UNA MULLALY is hardly the first Irish Times columnist to take a pop at a government party election candidate, even in the last... Read more »

THE ‘IT’ … AND TAKING THE XI YUAN

July 15, 2021

A YEAR ago an Irish Times editorial described with apparent approval the “robust” comments and warnings about the aggressive behaviour of China from... Read more »

THE KILLING OF VERONICA GUERIN

July 1, 2021

THE 25TH anniversary of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder by gangsters was marked, for the first time in the quarter of a century since,... Read more »

COLLINS TURNS ON VLAD

July 1, 2021

TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR should be concerned at the apparent disillusionment of the IT’s Stephen Collins – with not only FG but its leader.... Read more »

BELGIAN PETE SETS UP ‘INDO’ FACE-OFF

May 6, 2021

A KEEN rivalry has developed at Talbot Towers where editors of Mediahuis Ireland’s two main titles the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent –... Read more »

‘BACKWARD SECULARISM’

May 6, 2021

LETTERS TO the editors of the three main Irish newspapers from Brendan Butler, the well-known progressive Catholic activist, deploring their lack of coverage... Read more »

MICHEÁL’S FOURTH ESTATE DESERTERS

April 22, 2021

AN ALARMING development for beleaguered taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, is that his long-time media champions have begun to desert him... Read more »

ON AN ASS IN STEPHEN’S GREEN

April 22, 2021

ISN’T IT time the London based Sunday Times filled the editor’s post at its Aawrish edition – vacant since Frank Fitzgibbon announced his retirement last... Read more »

SARAH’S PRIME TIME HAS COME

April 8, 2021

COVERAGE OF the cabinet row over new countries to be earmarked for quarantine states and queue jumping vaccine grabbers were nearly eclipsed by... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ REVISIONISM

April 8, 2021

TIME WAS when the Business Post dissented from the mainstream media in several ways, chief among them being a nationalist interpretation of the north that... Read more »

SINDO v BOBBY SANDS

March 25, 2021

A RECENT tweet sneering at Bobby Sands’ hunger strike and death from Sindo sports writer Tommy Conlon has caused a furore on social media. But... Read more »

BEESLEY TICKLED PINK BY ‘IT’ RETURN

March 25, 2021

THE Financial Times is looking for an Ireland Correspondent to replace Arthur Beesley who has returned to his editorial alma mater, the Irish Times.  Showing an appreciation of... Read more »

SMITHWICK TRIBUNAL REVISITED

March 11, 2021

WHAT AN intriguing notice the Sunday Times published last weekend – buried underneath a panoply of outraged letters about perfidious journalist Roy Greenslade... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S SUBTLETY

March 11, 2021

“O’BRIEN’S PERSONAL editorial influence within the media organisations in which he invested was hard to quantify – including at Independent Newspapers … influence... Read more »

VLAD’S RHETORIC

February 25, 2021

THE WORLD’S press has been enthralled by the audacious Aussies as they square up to the tech giants who appear to have made... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ REMEMBERS

February 25, 2021

HAS THE centenary of Northern Ireland unhinged the Irish Times? It has just spent a week publishing a stream of articles and interviews... Read more »

LOYAL SUNDAY TIMES

February 11, 2021

THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times editorialised with sweet reason last weekend about how the north was working its way through the... Read more »