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‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORSHIP

March 8, 2023
THE RECENT statement to the Irish Times from various TDs and senators proposing a peace dialogue in Ukraine was responded to by a sack... Read more »

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EILIS O’HANLON’S ‘INTERNALISED LOATHING’

March 8, 2023
THE JOINT committee on children, equality, disability, integration and youth held a discussion on “integration and refugee issues” in the Dáil last month, which... Read more »

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DANA V VIRGIN MEDIA

March 8, 2023
ONE OF the last defamation actions in the raft of such cases undertaken by Dana following the acquittal on all charges of child abuse... Read more »

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COLOUR-BLIND CRITICS

February 22, 2023
HUGH LINEHAN has been conspicuously silent about the race row over nominations to the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022. The IT’s arts and... Read more »

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GLOBAL MEDIA FUNDING

February 22, 2023
THE LAST edition of The Phoenix (see issue 10/2/23) drew attention to the media group-think and bias about Nato’s proxy war against Russia via... Read more »

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IAN KEHOE’S RTE CONCERNS

February 22, 2023
WHAT A remarkably detailed account of last September’s RTÉ board minutes was made available to the Sindo’s Mark Tighe last Sunday. And how prominent... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ TICKS OFF ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

February 9, 2023
THE TRANSFORMATION of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times from heavyweight editorial to low-brow human-interest stories is a direct result of London’s slash-and-burn... Read more »

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RARE SPORT AT THE ‘EXAMINER’

February 9, 2023
BORN-AGAIN HACK Ian Mallon, formerly a senior editorial exec with Independent News and Media (INM) and then a public relations pro with the Football... Read more »

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MEEK MEDIA AND PASCHAL DONOHOE

January 26, 2023
THE INITIALLY tardy attitude of most media to allegations that Paschal Donohoe’s breached election expenses rules is hard to explain (see p3). Surely the... Read more »

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SIMON CARSWELL’S SILVER MEDALS

January 26, 2023
IRISH EXAMINER political editor Danny McConnell took the job as Business Post editor ahead of Simon Carswell, the public affairs editor and former Washington... Read more »

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OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

January 26, 2023
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS believe an imposter may have used Eoghan Harris’s identity on social media to launch an attack on the British royal family for... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ CRITICS

January 12, 2023
“SPECIAL CONSIDERATION shall be given to the reasonable representation of minority interests and divergent views,” according to the “principles of the Irish Times”. However,... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS RETREAT

January 12, 2023
EFFORTS BY Mediahuis, publishers of Independent titles and others north and south, to colonise the Sunday market in the north via the Sunday Independent... Read more »

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RTÉ’S MILITARY ‘EXPERTS’

January 12, 2023
TWO DAYS after Christmas RTÉ’s Morning Ireland interviewed the Atlantic Council’s Nicholas Blanford, an expert on the Middle East. Listeners were told that the... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ AND CHILD ABUSE

December 15, 2022
ON NOVEMBER 21 last, the Irish Times published a brief report on the passing of 81-year-old Derek Linster (also known as Derek Leinster). It... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS SUED

December 15, 2022
RTÉ AND Sunday Independent journalist Brendan O’Connor has arrived late to the privacy party being reluctantly hosted by Mediahuis, owners of the Indo and... Read more »

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RTÉ’S ‘TOY SHOW’ DIRGE

December 15, 2022
MEDIA PREVIEWS of Toy Show The Musical were ecstatic, describing the lavish and very expensive production as the “perfect recipe… an instant Christmas classic”... Read more »

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MEDIA GONGS TO BE SILENCED?

December 1, 2022
GOLDHAWK SPECULATED recently that Mediahuis titles might show a marked improvement in the NewsBrands Ireland awards this year compared with their humiliation in 2021... Read more »

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IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY

December 1, 2022
THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains in... Read more »

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GO, HARVEY, GO!

December 1, 2022
IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals better... Read more »

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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN

November 17, 2022
REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light on... Read more »

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WHAT A LOVELY WAR

November 17, 2022
AMID MEDIA hand-wringing about Ukraine and Nato propaganda masquerading as journalism, it takes a small NGO to reveal who has really been making decisions... Read more »

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NO IMPEACHMENT AT TRINNERS

November 17, 2022
IT’S BEEN a rocky start for Ailbhe Noonan, newly elected editor of University Times, the Irish student publication of the year for six out... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: PRINT – OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

November 17, 2022
UPHEAVALS AT the top of Irish newspapers dominated the print and online market this year. The four or five leading titles all saw changes,... Read more »

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COLD MESS

November 2, 2022
IRELAND’S LOSS is Europe’s gain, as Damien O’Reilly trades in his gig as presenter of RTÉ radio’s Countrywide to head up the Brussels office... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS AWARDS NOMINATIONS SOAR

November 2, 2022
WHAT A hugely enhanced performance has taken place in the standard of journalism at Mediahuis – the largest publishing stable in the country north... Read more »

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IT V SF

November 2, 2022
AMID THE welter of media hit jobs on Sinn Féin in the last fortnight, the most surprising such assault came from accomplished Irish Times... Read more »

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RTÉ’S NEW CHAIR

October 19, 2022
THE SHORTLIST of applicants to replace the chair of the RTÉ board, Moya Doherty, is down to three: super successful broadcaster and digital innovator... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE CULL

October 19, 2022
SOMETHING OF a cultural counter-revolution is happening at the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, where new staff to replace the allegedly over-paid literati... Read more »

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PLUGGING STEPHEN COLLINS

October 19, 2022
HOPEFULLY PUBLIC ennui with Brexit will not diminish sales of the recently published book, Ireland’s Call: Navigating Brexit, by Irish Times columnist and former... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ SAVES COVENEY’S BLUSHES

October 6, 2022
INCORRIGIBLE JOURNALIST Sally Hayden recently spoiled one of those feel-good occasions so beloved by Irish ministers when they posture as benevolent, first-world statesmen comforting... Read more »

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OAKLEY EXITS POST

October 6, 2022
THE DEPARTURE of Business Post editor Richie Oakley is just the latest such resignation and underlines the flight of national editors from their positions... Read more »

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OAKLEY RIDES AGAIN

October 6, 2022
BUSINESS POST editor Richie Oakley is on the move again and has gone over to what many journalists deride as the ‘dark side’, ie... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ RUNS FROM ESB

September 22, 2022
THE ESB got both barrels in a recent Sunday Independent article about the “Georgian pastiche façade” to its former HQ, which was derided as... Read more »

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JUSTINE MCCARTHY’S NEW GIG

September 22, 2022
McCarthy has fared rather better than some of her journalist colleagues at Murdoch’s Aawrish edition of the newspaper and has landed on her feet... Read more »

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‘IT’ EDITORIAL FACTIONS

September 22, 2022
THE EDITORIAL view of some journalists at the Irish Times is that the newspaper is conventional (ie right-wing), overtly pro-business, partitionist and old fashioned,... Read more »

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