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‘DAMNING JUDGMENT’ IN KERRY

June 3, 2021

‘KERRY’S EYE’ editor Ger Colleran is not the sort of person to gloat in victory but his reporting of a win at the... Read more »

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SUING THE SUNDAY TIMES

June 3, 2021

FOLLOWING AN incorrect report in the Sunday Times last March that the Smithwick Tribunal had found that a garda sergeant in Dundalk had... 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 »

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BATTING FOR MOUNTBATTEN

May 6, 2021

MI5’S FAVOURITE newspaper, the Sunday Times, certainly confirmed its reputation recently with a story about Lord Mountbatten’s assassination, written by Andrew Lownie –... 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 »

FORBES’S FOIBLES

April 22, 2021

FORBES MAGAZINE obviously values its reputation as one of the most authoritative financial publications in the world. This helps to explain why the... 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 »

TACKLING ROBBIE KEANE

April 8, 2021

HAS SINDO sports writer Tommy Conlon struck again in the libel stakes as a rather full-on apology to former Irish soccer star Robbie... Read more »

MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN’S HOUSE

March 25, 2021

A PALATIAL pile, combining space and location, is up for sale in Grosvenor Road, D6, where number 45 is – the Irish Times... 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 »

PAUL CLARKSON’S RECORD

March 11, 2021

SO ANXIOUS was Micheál Martin to acquire the services of former Irish Sun editor Paul Clarkson that he had to rearrange staff at... 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 »

ALEX MASKEY V IRISH TIMES

February 25, 2021

IRISH TIMES legal affairs correspondent Colm Keena wrote a lengthy feature article on Sinn Féin on March 5 last which purported to outline... 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 »

RTÉ’S DAMNING STATISTICS

February 11, 2021
AS GOLDHAWK predicted, much revisionist accountancy speak has been heard from RTÉ management as it demands the latest round of cuts from its benighted... Read more »

MARK PAUL’S POLEMIC

February 11, 2021

A PLEA for a raft of state subsidies to prevent newspapers being wiped out by ‘big tech’ was made to the Future of... 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 »

SUCCEEDING FRANK FITZGIBBON

January 28, 2021

THE EDITOR’S seat at the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times is still vacant since the announcement by Frank Fitzgibbon that he was... Read more »

McQUAID’S LONG SHADOW

January 28, 2021

STRANGELY, IN his recent Irish Times column titled “McQuaid’s long shadow hangs over baby homes” – and on RTÉ with Claire Byrne – Ireland’s best-known... Read more »

SINDO REVERTS TO TYPE

January 28, 2021

THE NEED to stand out and be contrarian, even provocative, has become almost de rigueur for many hacks trying to build a profile... Read more »

COVID SAVES RTÉ

January 14, 2021

THE MEDIA Commission’s investigation into RTÉ’s finances was initially regarded as a crisis management exercise, but one of the great ironies of the... Read more »

SINDO’S BLUE LINE

January 14, 2021

SEVERAL ANONYMOUS sources made assertive comments to a receptive media about the shooting dead of George Nkencho at his home in Clonee recently amid much leaking by... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S MEDIA FANS

January 14, 2021

GOOD TO see the most prominent and indeed responsible political commentators jumping to the defence of An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, as he came... Read more »

RTÉ TO POACH FROM BBC?

December 16, 2020

WILL RTÉ management be again forced to tap up a BBC journalist to staff their Belfast office given that its northern editor, Tommie... Read more »

GALWAY BAY LITIGATION

December 16, 2020

Galway 2020 must have breathed a sigh of relief when former Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely decided not to run in the last... Read more »

ROSE DEEGAN’S SONG

December 16, 2020

HOW REFRESHING to see the Christmas spirit pierce the normally po-faced publishing exterior of the Irish Times with a human-interest story that hopefully... Read more »

REAL SURRENDER

December 3, 2020

It has not been a good two weeks for those still fighting the War of Independence, seeking a different result. Eoghan Harris’s Sunday... Read more »

POETRY SURPRISE

December 3, 2020

DUBLIN LIBERALS at the Irish Times appear to have liberated their new charges at the Waterford News & Star, previously owned by Irish... Read more »

BAH HUMBUG!

December 3, 2020

HACKS as well as Bob Cratchit and other staff at the Irish Daily Star were overcome with gratitude at the recent munificence bestowed... Read more »

When she contracted Covid-19, Claire Byrne continued to broadcast from her “garden shed”, a structure with neither a garden tool nor a cobweb in sight. Other shows saw her in a mock-up hospital bed and a mock-up Covid testing facility.

ANNUAL 2020 – AIRWAVES: COVID: A GOOD NEWS STORY

November 19, 2020

While COVID nearly destroyed the economy and laid waste to the independent TV sector right across the country, the disaster zone that has... Read more »