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NOT IN FRONT OF THE HACKS

November 28, 2019
‘SMILING CHILDREN, not sour-faced journalists’ is the best description of the urgent stratagem deployed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and communications minister Ricky Bruton at... Read more »

MATT COOPER’S MARKETING

November 28, 2019
IF SUNDAY Business Post editor Richie Oakley can surmount his awe of the paper’s new columnist, Matt Cooper (Richie’s editorial mentor at the Sunday... Read more »

D’ARCY SPURS GARDA PR CAMPAIGN

November 28, 2019
IT’S UNLIKELY that junior minister Michael D’Arcy will get much credit if the flurry of Garda activity in the violent campaign surrounding Quinn Industrial... Read more »

RTÉ SPLIT: DEE VS MOYA

November 14, 2019
YOU HAVE to feel sorry for RTÉ director general Dee Forbes, who is faced with the wrath not only of her staff but also... Read more »

BORDERLINE PARANOIA

November 14, 2019
THE IRISH TIMES has responded to growing calls for a border poll with an avalanche of criticism that reached a climax in the week... Read more »

JOURNO AWARDS EGO FEST

October 31, 2019
DIGITAL-SAVVY hacks got into the Newsbrands Journalism Awards website some weeks ago (the gong circus is to be held in the Mansion House in... Read more »

INM’S BELGIAN BEER INTERVIEWS

October 31, 2019
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Cormac Bourke’s “new role” as editor of the Irish Independent was announced in the Sindo recently, with Cormac quoted as looking... Read more »

‘SINDO’ BLUSTER

October 31, 2019
THE REACTION of the Sunday Independent to Boris Johnson’s abandonment of his hard line on Brexit, the north and his former ‘allies’ (the DUP)... Read more »

McGREGOR SPLITS MEDIA AWARDS

October 16, 2019
THE Newsbrands Journalism Awards judging process has proceeded with the usual behind-the-scenes bickering and lobbying. Already the Irish Mirror’s editor-in-chief, John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans, has... Read more »

AND THE WINNER IS…

October 16, 2019
“WHY WOULD I not believe it?” was the plaintive cry of non-Nobel prize-winner John Banville, quoted in the Irish Times last weekend. Banville later... Read more »

ULICK O’CONNOR’S SPECIAL SEAT

October 16, 2019
ARGUMENTATIVE, hot-tempered and sometimes even threatening, writer and critic Ulick O’Connor was Goldhawk’s favourite rebel contrarian – even when being verbally abused by him.... Read more »

MARTY WHELAN’S JERUSALEM JUNKET

October 3, 2019
VIEWERS OF RTÉ’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest final in May will have heard presenter Marty Whelan speak of a “visit to Jerusalem... Read more »

DIM FORECAST

October 3, 2019
WHAT A mischievous suggestion was recently published in the Irish Mail on Sunday in a speculative forecast about a Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition –... Read more »

‘MAIL’S’ MALE TALE

October 3, 2019
The Irish Daily Mail boasts of its special attention to women readers, but it’s uncertain how an online feature headlined “Dublin strippers reveal what... Read more »

INM V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

September 19, 2019
SUNDAY TIMES hack Mark Tighe is being pursued in the High Court by former Independent News & Media’s (INM) group editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae, for... Read more »

THE CURRENCY’S CAST

September 19, 2019
HAVING FAILED to buy the Sunday Business Post (see The Phoenix, 3/5/19) Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons – formerly editor and acting editor, respectively... Read more »

BBC TV ‘TROUBLES’

September 19, 2019
THE BBC NI series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History, which began last week, received a lyrical welcome from Máiría Cahill in the... Read more »

KERRY OWN GOAL

September 5, 2019
KERRY’S FOOTBALLERS dominated media coverage in the Kingdom this week but another battle – between a local sports titan and Fianna Fáil TD John... Read more »

MOUNTBATTEN: CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

September 5, 2019
THERE HAS been little media comment about reports, backed up by interviews with abused victims, that Lord Louis Mountbatten – great-uncle and mentor to... Read more »

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ AND WOMEN

September 5, 2019
SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns has leaped to the defence of his male colleagues at the Irish Times and has regurgitated their denial... Read more »

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 »