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‘IRISH TIMES’: REPEAT OFFENDER

December 11, 2025

IS THE Irish Times intent on provoking a third Press Council/Ombudsman hearing in 15 months about its erroneous reportage of child abuse? The... Read more »

BRITISH MEDIA DEMAND WE FIGHT

December 11, 2025

ISN’T IT time some Government politician or public personality did a de Valera and demanded silence from British and EU militarists and their... Read more »

JOURNALIST AWARDS: LESS IS MORE

November 27, 2025

THERE WERE issues galore for the organisers of the 2025 NewsBrands Irish Journalism Awards to chew over following the annual €2,000-a-table Mansion House... Read more »

WHITE FEATHERS TO STARMER

November 27, 2025

THE ADULTS in the room (Irish Times/RTÉ hacks) are worried about the elephant also in the room (Russians) preparing to invade western Europe... Read more »

ENNISKILLEN REVISITED

November 12, 2025

Strange and unusual things are happening at the Times and Sunday Times, normally a news outlet whose coverage of military and spooky matters... Read more »

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BILL EMMOTT’S CV

November 12, 2025

OF THE LATEST two recruits to the Irish Times board, Adele Cooper has a stellar business cv – Pinterest, Google and Premier Lotteries... Read more »

IRISH TIMES ‘REALLY GOOD’ RIP.IE DEAL

November 12, 2025

Michael ‘Mikie’ Sheehan, the chief money man at the Irish Times Group, last month told his paper that the controversial May 2024 acquisition... Read more »

ANNUAL 2025: FIT TO PRINT? – ROCKY ROAD FOR DUBLIN’S BIG TWO

November 12, 2025

The departures of rival business bosses Deirdre Veldon from the Irish Times and Peter Vandermeersch from Indo-owner Mediahuis Ireland were major events in... Read more »

PRINCE ANDREW’S PR

October 30, 2025

VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE, who was abused by Prince Andrew, died by suicide last April after completing her book, Nobody’s Girl, which has just... Read more »

MATT COOPER FIBS ABOUT BEN DUNNE

October 30, 2025

THERE ARE not many editors and authors who would admit to telling a “deliberate mistruth” about a national corruption story on the front... Read more »

‘SINDO’ V CONNOLLY

October 30, 2025

JOURNALISTS WHO noted the Fine Gael smear campaign against president-elect Catherine Connolly in the run up to the election should not throw stones... Read more »

LUNDY LIVES!

October 16, 2025

LAUNCHING BEN Collins’s book, The Irish Unity Dividend, former president Mary McAleese recently told her Dublin audience: “The ending of partition and the... Read more »

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ALAN ENGLISH’S EDITING

October 16, 2025

THE NEW associate editor of The Currency, Alan English – who resigned as editor of the Sunday Independent six months ago – has... Read more »

STARMER: CHINA NO THREAT

October 16, 2025

THE SUNDAY TIMES Aawrish edition ran a special red China scare story last weekend – “one of the most serious cases of foreign... Read more »

GELDOF WAIVES AWAY THE ÁRAS

October 2, 2025

LIKE GROUPIES throwing their underwear at a real rock star, the fawning behaviour of various hacks at the feet of Bob Geldof as... Read more »

HUMPHREYS’ ‘ORANGE’ LINK

October 2, 2025

THE IRISH TIMES was quick to publish a denunciation of the Irish Mail on Sunday for questioning presidential candidate Heather Humphreys and hubby... Read more »

FIONNUALA’S FANTASIES

October 2, 2025

FORMER CAMBRIDGE young Tory, now Irish Times columnist Tory, Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond likes to lecture the Irish for being no better than the... Read more »

LOYALIST SCHIZOPHRENIA

September 18, 2025

SOUTHERN MEDIA continue to treat the black north like some unexplored 19th-century colony, with wildly different takes on sectarian attacks on Catholics and... Read more »

SPY GAMES

September 18, 2025

HOW FASCINATING to read in the Sunday Times – MI5’s favourite newspaper – that ex-taoiseach Leo Varadkar knew the Brits were capable of... Read more »

UKRAINIAN DEMOCRAT’S MURDER

September 18, 2025

THE IRISH and European media constantly deride the Russian media as Putin’s obedient mouthpiece – quite unlike the free western media, which does... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS WARNING

September 4, 2025
A SOMBRE if little noticed announcement from Mediahuis Ireland last week contained some rather bleak, if understated, commentary about the future of the European... Read more »

GAZA JOURNALIST IN US COURT

September 4, 2025

The Palestine Chronicle – whose editor Dr Ramzy Baroud’s family has suffered many, many fatalities in Gaza since October 2023 – is facing... Read more »

MAJOR TOM McDOWELL LIVES ON

September 4, 2025

WAS IT the memory of the exposure of the Irish Times’s long-time chief executive, Major Tom McDowell, as an MI5 agent years ago... Read more »

TERRY PRONE’S ‘MASS GRAVE’

August 21, 2025

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times recently focused on the discovery in the past few years of another “mass grave”, which is... Read more »

IRISH MEDIA AND GAZA

August 21, 2025

A MOST civilised discourse may have been anticipated by Sindo readers recently who looked at the headline “Letter from Jerusalem” over an article... Read more »

KITTY HOLLAND V JOHN WATERS

August 7, 2025

THE END game in the seven-year defamation action by Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland against ex-IT journalist and anti-abortion activist John Waters is... Read more »

IIEA ECONOMIC GURU WARNS IRELAND (II)

August 7, 2025

WITHIN DAYS of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) chief economist Dan O’Brien having his invitation rescinded to speak to the... Read more »

LONDON CALLING

August 7, 2025

DONALD TRUMP’S threatening mind games in moving nuclear submarines close to Russia is worrying enough but when two of Britain’s most jingoistic newspapers,... Read more »

RTÉ’S NEUTRALITY

July 24, 2025

WESTERN CLICHÉS about Orwellian media bias in Russia and other ‘bad‘ countries could well describe RTÉ and Coimisiún na Meán’s (CnaM) response to... Read more »

‘GOOGLE IT’

July 24, 2025

IRiSH TIMES group MD, Deirdre Veldon, welcomed aboard the paper’s newly appointed director, David Martin — former senior director at Google — saying... Read more »

SINGER NOT THE SONG

July 24, 2025

A MOST mannerly, intellectual exercise of the sort that can, some say, lead to blindness, has been arranged involving mutual participants, Fintan O’Toole... Read more »

VERONICA GUERIN AND THE ‘SINDO’

July 10, 2025

FORMER SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Anne Harris’s recent article in the Currency, about the murder 29 years ago of Sindo star journalist Veronica Guerin,... Read more »

BBC AND KINCORA

July 10, 2025

FOLLOWING THE Gerry Adams disaster, another distinction earned by the BBC in its coverage of the Troubles came with last month’s settlement of... Read more »

LEO’S LINE

July 10, 2025

THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times is usually kept on a tight editorial leash by the chaps (and gals) in London at... Read more »

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE

June 26, 2025

DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL, the ego-child of David McWilliams, came around this month with little danger of anyone in the literary and media establishment... Read more »

GABIJA’S BARISTA BOMBSHELL!

June 26, 2025

AS IF Government TDs did not have enough to put up with as voters whine about housing, it emerges that they are also... Read more »