Article Category: Fit to Print?

LEAKS FROM RTÉ BOARD

September 21, 2023
BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S attack on RTÉ at last week’s Oireachtas media committee was colourful but it obscured an intriguing tussle between committee chair Niamh Smyth... Read more »

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THE HARP THAT ONCE…

September 21, 2023
WHEN MEDIAHUIS last year launched a strong campaign to abolish Vat on newspapers, it claimed that democracy in Ireland was threatened by any decline... Read more »

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CORRECTION

September 21, 2023
GOLDHAWK HAS been contacted by NewsBrands Ireland to point out that the newspaper lobby group, along with the Press Council of Ireland and Google... Read more »

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BANKING PROFESSOR O’KELLY

September 7, 2023
HOW REFRESHING to read an argument about the big banks’ behaviour that does not pander to the populist mob and tells it like it... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS’S LEGAL BILLS

September 7, 2023
TWO THINGS are clear from the latest reports of the legal battle involving Mediahuis, ex-Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley and 19... Read more »

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IRELAND’S SARAJEVO

September 7, 2023
THE NUMBER of approving, even hyperbolic comments published in the Irish Times in the last two years about the book, Great Hatred: The Assassination... Read more »

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TUBS’S IMMODEST SUCCESSOR

August 24, 2023
MOST NEWSPAPERS could not resist listing the contenders to replace Ryan Tubridy in his radio morning slot and most were relatively objective in their... Read more »

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SEE NO EVIL, PRINT NO EVIL

August 24, 2023
THE COMPLICITY of the media in largely failing to highlight clerical child abuse unless it is perpetrated by Catholic clergy has recently been exposed... Read more »

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‘SLAPPING’ THE MEDIA

August 10, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS greatly impressed by the deliberations of various politicians, lawyers and media executives who gathered at the Oireachtas joint committee on justice last... Read more »

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STEVE AIKEN’S BROADSIDE

August 10, 2023
Steve Aiken, former Ulster Unionist Party leader from 2019 to 2021 and before that a commander on Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines, launched an attack... Read more »

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O’DEA V DOOLEY

August 10, 2023
Much media ink – and pixels – have been devoted to Fine Gael justice minister Helen McEntee in recent weeks, with quite a few... Read more »

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SECTARIAN SCOPING INQUIRY

July 27, 2023
The Irish Times is refusing to publish on its news pages the fact that a ministerial scoping inquiry into abuse in day and boarding... Read more »

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BUGGER OFF!

July 27, 2023
IN WHAT must have ageing PSNI officers heaving with laughter at the sheer irony of it all, it has emerged that the filmmakers who... Read more »

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AI REPORT PROLONGED

July 27, 2023
IRISH TIMES hack, Jennifer O’Connell was not five minutes in the role of opinion editor when that bogus article claiming the use of fake... Read more »

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DON’T HOLD THE FRONT PAGE

July 13, 2023
SOMETIMES IT’S not what you print but what you don’t print that tells a tale and, among those journalists who are somewhat conflicted by... Read more »

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ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

July 13, 2023
LISTENING TO The Communications Clinic (CC) public relations manipulator, Anton Savage, interviewing film producer and media guru David Puttnam about public service broadcasting and... Read more »

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WHAT’S THE STORY, RORY?

July 13, 2023
RETIRED DIRECTOR of strategy Rory Coveney said two things about his and RTÉ’s disastrous project, Toy Show The Musical, last week. The first was... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ SPLIT ON NEUTRALITY?

June 29, 2023
AFTER SEVERAL days of semi-hysterical reaction from Irish Times hacks to President Michael D Higgins calling out Micheál Martin’s forum on security for what... Read more »

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ANGLO-US MEDIA

June 29, 2023
PREDICTABLE DENUNCIATION of anti-war protesters at Micheál Martin’s security forum came from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times – Whitehall’s favourite Aawrish newspaper.... Read more »

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IRISH TIMES MARCHES ON

June 28, 2023
TIME WAS when the Sunday Independent was the would-be Irish Tory trumpet in the media on foreign and domestic politics (think Eoghan Harris on... Read more »

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UNA HEALY’S TRANSFORMATION

June 15, 2023
TV PRESENTER, singer and brand ambassador Una Healy appears to have multiple personalities and her energetic PR campaign has seen her rubbish reports of... Read more »

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VETTING ‘MALE’ REFUGEES AT INCH

June 15, 2023
FORMER COMMISSIONER of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and ex-RTÉ producer Betty Purcell has made an interesting complaint to RTÉ about the... Read more »

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JOHN DOWNING & THE BELGIANS

June 15, 2023
ERUDITE INDEPENDENT writer John Downing normally gives his newspaper titles a slightly higher tone but what are we to make of Downing’s apparently whimsical... Read more »

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‘SEE NO SECTARIANISM …’

June 1, 2023
THE IRISH TIMES lasered in on the Government’s scoping inquiry into abuse “at private fee paying schools” recently, but its article had little to... Read more »

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NAH NAH PANA

June 1, 2023
THE MEDIA, military and Government mantra is for a serious debate about neutrality. Newspapers and airwaves are full of strident cries to end neutrality... Read more »

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‘BUSINESS POST’ REVISES NORTH LINE

June 1, 2023
NEWLY MINTED Business Post editor Daniel McConnell clearly felt the need to not only assert a politically pristine editorial line on the north but... Read more »

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DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

May 18, 2023
THERE WAS much joyous comment in the media – Irish as well as British – at the “inclusive” character of the coronation of King... Read more »

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LUCINDA’S MESSAGE TO MELONI

May 18, 2023
DOES A recent Business Post column by Lucinda Creighton on Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni indicate that EU conservatives are ready to accept the... Read more »

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PALE, MALE AND ‘IT’

May 18, 2023
It took Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic some 48 hours to explain who, what, where and how the newspaper’s website ran an absurd... Read more »

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KEVIN MYERS ‘SET UP’

May 4, 2023
RIGHT-WING outlet Gript recently interviewed right-wing ex-Sunday Times journalist Kevin Myers about how he got sacked after making a “little joke” about two well-paid,... Read more »

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NO HELP FOR MCREDMOND

May 3, 2023
POWERSCOURT GROUP boss Rory Godson contacted Goldhawk to inform us that we were incorrect to say he had assisted David McRedmond – former chairman... Read more »

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CARLSON’S DOWNFALL

May 3, 2023
Tucker Carlson, a right-wing broadcasting star on Fox News, was tipped as the political heir to Donald Trump, until he was sacked – without... Read more »

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‘IT’ DENOUNCES SECTARIANISM

April 19, 2023
JUSTINE McCARTHY recently thundered against the “sectarian criteria” of the planned scoping inquiry into the abuse of children in “schools run by religious orders”,... Read more »

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OFFICER CLASS MEDIA FIGHT BACK

April 19, 2023
THE DAMNING report of the Independent Review Group (IRG) into sexual assault and other abuses in the Defence Forces was given a supportive response... Read more »

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‘EXTENSIVE’ CUTS AT MEDIAHUIS

April 6, 2023
THE JOB cuts and restructuring announced last week by Mediahuis editor-in-chief Cormac Bourke and chief executive Peter Vandermeersch gave quite a different vision of... Read more »

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‘IT’ GOES PALE GREEN

April 6, 2023
IT IS only fair and fitting that long-time news editor of the Irish Times, Mark Hennessy, should be succeeded in that onerous post by... Read more »

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