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TROUBLE AT T’MILL, MR BAKHURST

February 26, 2026

KEVIN BAKHURST and RTÉ executives may be miffed at the ingratitude of the Siptu proles at Montrose, who recently voted down their transformation... Read more »

MURDOCH’S MEN TUTOR FIANNA FÁIL

February 26, 2026

WHAT IS it about the tabloid media, the Irish Sun in particular, that appeals to Fianna Fáil and its leaders – currently Micheál... Read more »

JOE MULHOLLAND AND CENSORSHIP

February 12, 2026

FAWNING COMMENTARY on the death of former RTÉ current affairs and news head Joe Mulholland ignored his real notability. It illustrated how RTÉ... Read more »

‘EAGLE-EYED’ IRISH TIMES

February 12, 2026

IN KEEPING with the compelling mystique and tradition surrounding the Irish Times, not to mention its journalists’ self-regarding sense of the Old Crone... Read more »

NEUTERED (NOT NEUTRAL) MEDIA

January 29, 2026

MEDIA ANALYSTS writing about issues of great moment at home and abroad can be forgiven for occasional pomposity but not for simply parroting... Read more »

‘ECHO’ CHAMBER

January 29, 2026

AN ANXIOUS meeting of Echo staff journalists with the Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Séamus Dooley, was convened last... Read more »

ALISON REVISITS GAZA — AGAIN

January 15, 2026

GOLDHAWK HAS listened to some sophisticated arguments from those who resist action in support of Palestinians even as they still face daily slaughter... Read more »

BLIND FAITH IN ANTON SAVAGE

January 15, 2026

COMMUNICATIONS CLINIC MD Eoghan Tomás McDermott declined an invitation to appear before the Oireachtas media committee last November to discuss Coimisiún na Meán’s... Read more »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »