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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... Read more »

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DAYS of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) chief economist Dan O’Brien having his invitation rescinded to speak to the...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

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‘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 »

DAY OF THE SQUIRE

June 26, 2025

RECENTLY DECEASED Freddie Forsyth, the author of The Day of the Jackal and other bestsellers, revealed in his 2015 biography, The Outsider, that... Read more »

CONFLICTS AT DE PAPER(S)

June 12, 2025

CORK’S ATTACHMENT to ‘de paper’ may soon be realised literally as one of de two newspapers, the Irish Examiner and the Echo, could... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ CRIES HALT IN GAZA

June 12, 2025

AMONG THOSE scrambling to get onside with the increasing revulsion at the slaughter in Gaza is the Irish Times, which recently editorialised against... Read more »

MICHAEL GAINE MURDER ‘SUSPECT’

May 29, 2025

KERRY-BASED American Michael Kelley, who was arrested on suspicion of murdering Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine and who gave an interview to the Irish... Read more »

RTÉ BLANKS GAZA PROTESTS

May 29, 2025

THE ANGUISH of RTÉ luvvies over a private firm being hired to produce an advert for RTÉ News in a simulated newsroom –... Read more »

GAZA REVISITED

May 29, 2025

IT’S HARD to single out the most brazen U-turn on Gaza by those who might now be anxious about having endorsed – by... Read more »

LOW-COST MEDIA FREEDOM

May 15, 2025
UNSURPRISINGLY, THERE has been little or no media coverage of the pay-outs to media organisations recently from the Government or, rather, the taxpayers’ largely... Read more »

CLARE DALY V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

May 15, 2025

GOLDHAWK PREDICTED as far back as 2022 that then MEP Clare Daly would come for those sections of the media that had, as... Read more »

FUNDING GREAT BRITISH NEWS

May 15, 2025

IRISH TAXPAYERS will be equally happy – in the spirit of our shared island and its history – to learn that the Government’s... Read more »

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DISAPPEARED STORY

May 1, 2025

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the crusade that began in January, when the Sunday Times launched its Forgotten Graves campaign to grant a proper burial... Read more »

THE LATE LATE SHOW

May 1, 2025

AN APPARENTLY non-descript and rather short story, informing Irish Times readers that Denis O’Brien had received nearly €6m for his Moriarty Tribunal legal... Read more »

NO TO ‘IRISH TIMES’!

May 1, 2025

A DISAPPOINTED Irish Times was recently compelled to report that voters favoured retention of neutrality by over 2:1 but the good news for... Read more »

MORE ‘SINDO’ FALL-OUT

April 17, 2025

THE ASCENT of new Sunday Independent editor Liz Kearney from highly proficient sub-editor to the top job at the country’s biggest-selling newspaper completes... Read more »

DEIRDRE VELDON’S BLURRED VISION

April 17, 2025

Last weekend’s Sunday Times saw Deirdre Veldon – the €270,000-a-year MD of the Irish Times group – deny that Irish news publishers are... Read more »

TOP GARDA ‘SECURITY’ THREAT

April 17, 2025

THE IRISH Times reported last weekend on the “unprecedented… crisis” due to the ongoing pension tax anomaly that will see any senior Garda... Read more »

ISRAELI SOLDIERS – THE REAL VICTIMS

April 3, 2025

THE WAVE of antisemitic terror sweeping across Ireland, which the Irish Times and other media have been courageously exposing, has reached appalling levels... Read more »

EU WARRIORS ON THE RETREAT?

April 3, 2025

HAVE DIVISIONS among the European shock troops limbering up to confront Putin’s Russia caused some to have second thoughts? This disappointing retreat from... Read more »

VICTIMISING MUSK

April 3, 2025

Sir, I was disappointed to read your article in the Phoenix titled “X marks the drop in standards” because I... Read more »

PAUL TWEED’S MIDDLE EAST ROW

March 20, 2025

EVEN LAWYER to the stars Paul Tweed can claim to have suffered collateral damage in the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Tweed... Read more »

OLD BAILEY

March 20, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised that the Sunday Independent did not put on its front page Senan Molony’s scoop last weekend about a breakthrough in... Read more »