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NÓRA QUOIRIN: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

August 22, 2019
IN AN effort to get ahead of the news, an Irish Times front-page splash on Nóra Quoirin last week said, “Suspicions grow that 15-year-old... Read more »

BREXIT BACKSLIDE

August 22, 2019
Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris is driving a campaign to force the government to yield on the backstop. And the divisions in the main media... Read more »

IRISH TIMES IMAGE

August 8, 2019
IN AN unusually unsubtle PR move, the Irish Times announced the editorial promotion of two women the weekend following The Phoenix story about alleged... Read more »

SEZ THE MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL

August 8, 2019
HOW IRONIC that the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times should pick up on the fake news peddled by the Daily Mail which claimed... Read more »

COLETTE SEXTON’S CONVERSION

August 8, 2019
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST hack, Colette Sexton, will surely raise the tone and exper- tise of her new colleagues at Edelman which she joined recently.... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS’S LIBEL WRIT

July 25, 2019
THE BROODING Kevin Myers, sacked from the Sunday Times for penning an anti-semitic jibe about BBC Jewish journalists, has re-entered the public arena with... Read more »

CLIFF RICHARD FOR HIGH COURT

July 25, 2019
AN UNPRECEDENTED action being taken by John Browne (brother of Dana Rosemary Scallon), who was acquitted of all charges of child abuse in an... Read more »

WHEN IN ROME…

July 25, 2019
IRISH TIMES management’s triumphal declaration of victory over its 28-year-long Rome correspondent, Paddy Agnew, last February may have been a bit premature, judging by... Read more »

GERRY ADAMS LIBELS

July 11, 2019
WIDESPREAD MEDIA speculation about Gerry Adams being either involved in or having knowledge of the 1991 murder of alleged informer Tom Oliver appears to... Read more »

FIONNAN SHEAHAN’S “EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE”

July 11, 2019
DECIPHERING the recent INM advert for an employee communications and experience manager demands a post-graduate degree in HR gobbledygook. Apparently, the core function of... Read more »

TO HELL OR CORK

July 11, 2019
AFTER TWO years as editor of the now-defunct Times Ireland edition, Richie Oakley has spent several weeks weighing up offers to edit the Irish... Read more »

HACKS ‘BLOOD’ FEUD

June 27, 2019
TWO PROMINENT Irish post holders in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have become embroiled in the offensive against British Labour Party Palestinian supporters... Read more »

‘INDO’ POLITICAL STAMPEDE

June 27, 2019
INM group editor Fionnan Sheahan is wrestling with personnel issues at Talbot Towers, where his rambunctious persona clashed with the Indo’s equally assertive personal... Read more »

BANNING THE ‘DAILY MAIL’

June 27, 2019
HIGH ANXIETY has surrounded coverage by mainstream and social media of the Ana Kriégel murder trial, mostly for good reasons. But reaction to trial... Read more »

STEPHEN DONNELLY VS ‘WICKLOW TIMES’

June 12, 2019
FIANNA FÁIL’S health spokesperson, Wicklow TD Stephen Donnelly, did not have a good local election, with internal rows contributing to the party losing out... Read more »

FOREIGN MEDIA

June 12, 2019
INDIGNATION from PR and lobbying maestro Karl Brophy and others at those who were not exactly sympathetic to the abandonment of the Times Ireland... Read more »

SOOTHING SHANE ROSS

June 12, 2019
THE Sunday Independent stood by its long-time journalist, now sports minister, Shane Ross, last weekend, allowing him much space to vindicate his effort to... Read more »

PRESS COUNCIL — SECRET INFO

May 29, 2019
WHAT AN intriguing postscript at the end of last weekend’s Sunday Business Post’s publication of the Press Council’s rejection of its appeal against an... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS SPANNER IN IT WORKS

May 29, 2019
THE IRISH TIMES gave the Mediahuis takeover of INM a guarded endorsement, saying the new owners offered a fresh start for the group and... Read more »

RTÉ’S POLITICAL PRIORITIES

May 29, 2019
WHILE RTÉ’S coverage of the election counts was up to its usual high standard, the scheduling of EU election debates – easily the most... Read more »

CREATING THE NEWS

May 16, 2019
YOU HAVE to hand it to whichever Sunday Independent newsroom hack came up with last weekend’s front page headline, “Varadkar’s €3bn tax cut in... Read more »

SUNDAY TIMES VS HUAWEI

May 16, 2019
The vigorous US campaign to persuade western countries to block Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (allegedly because of the risk of Chinese espionage or sabotage)... Read more »

DANA’S CROSS-BORDER LIBELS

May 16, 2019
EX-PRESIDENTIAL candidate and singer, Dana, took the Sunday World for a sum not far off €200,000 plus mammoth legal costs in the Belfast High... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ BUSINESS

May 2, 2019
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST chief executive Siobhán Lennon’s goodbye bash in Doheny & Nesbitt’s Baggot Street hostelry last week saw her replacement, Colm O’Reilly, mingle... Read more »

DERVAN’S FIERY FAI DEBUT

May 2, 2019
THE THEN FAI boss John Delaney announced the appointment of veteran sports hack Cathal Dervan as the FAI’s director of public relations and communications,... Read more »

NEW MEDIA CURRENCY

May 2, 2019
THE TWO Sunday Business Post journalists — ex-editor Ian Kehoe and executive editor Tom Lyons — who wanted to buy out their newspaper from... Read more »

CRIME DOES PAY

April 18, 2019
The International Fraud Prevention Conference, organised by ex-INM group editor Stephen Rae and his best buddy and colleague, Paul Williams, formerly of Newstalk, has... Read more »

PRESS SANCTION FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

April 18, 2019
VETERAN Irish Times journalist and former Sunday Tribune editor Peter Murtagh retired last week. The IT fired a shot at Denis O’Brien in its... Read more »

KEYSTONE COPS

April 18, 2019
A SCENE of Keystone Cops proportion was conjured up last week by Irish Times, Irish Independent and RTÉ coverage of Garda commissioner Drew Harris’s... Read more »

INM ‘HACKERS’ FOR HIGH COURT

April 4, 2019
INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA’S (INM) legal and corporate strategy is clear from the decision to take High Court action against former chief executive, Robert... Read more »

INM EXITERS

April 4, 2019
VETERAN EDITOR, Colm MacGinty, has just exited from the Sunday World and is to be followed this month by Sunday Independent executive editor (operations)... Read more »

CORBYN AND JIMMY SAVILE

April 4, 2019
A FRISSON ran through the RTÉ newsroom shortly after 7am last Thursday, following the usual Morning Ireland slot, It Says in the Papers by... Read more »

RUTH DUD DEPARTS ‘SINDO’

March 21, 2019
LONG-TIME Sunday Independent scourge of Republicanism Ruth Dudley Edwards bid the newspaper au revoir recently. However, she reassured anxious readers that, while she was... Read more »

FIONA MITCHELL’S DESK

March 21, 2019
RTÉ’S departing south-eastern correspondent, Damien Tiernan, gave the station a lash as he walked out the door in January. Tiernan pointed out that news... Read more »

GEMMA EXPOSES CHRISTCHURCH!

March 21, 2019
“INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST” Gemma O’Doherty has either produced the international scoop of the 21st century or shot herself in various limbs with the assertion that... Read more »

DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS

March 7, 2019
TRIUMPHANT BOASTS and victory cries over the competition always accompany the Irish Independent’s reporting of the circulation figures and the latest ABC results are... Read more »