Fit to Print? Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

Fit to Print?

BROWNE BEGGED HAUGHEY FOR CASH

December 2, 2021
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT extracts from the biography, Haughey, by academic Gary Murphy, opened with a passage about how the founder of Magill magazine, Vincent Browne,... Read more »

SHATTER V MAIL ON SUNDAY

December 2, 2021
ALAN SHATTER has been pursuing the Mail on Sunday and its political writer John Drennan for some time after he delivered a line on... Read more »

TWEED NON-STORY AND THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

December 2, 2021
THE RECENT death of former Ireland rugby player Davy Tweed did not excite interest on the Irish Times news pages. A brief sports supplement report mentioned... Read more »

THE ‘SINDO’ AND ITS NORTHERN EDITION

November 18, 2021
SUNDAY TIMES scribe John Burns emphasised the dilemma of a southern newspaper – the Sunday Independent’s newly launched northern edition — trying to appeal... Read more »

GERRY ADAMS’S ACTIONS

November 18, 2021
CONFUSION SURROUNDS the settlement between Gerry Adams and the Sunday World following the tabloid’s apology for claiming in 2015 that the then Sinn Féin... Read more »

TWEETS ACROSS THE BORDER

November 18, 2021
IT’S COMFORTING to learn that the Queen’s Writ has found a means to reach across the border to the republic via Twitter. The courts in Northern... Read more »

Eoghan Harris’s demise as Sindo columnist was linked more with the national question than the posting of any alleged bullying, sexist or misogynistic tweets.

ANNUAL 2021: PRINT – MEDIA SANS HARRIS AND O’BRIEN

November 18, 2021
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT trumpet, Eoghan Harris’s public shaming and downfall, together with an improved financial performance at some of Ireland’s leading media businesses, dominated the... Read more »

VERONICA GUERIN: ‘SINDO’ REVISIONISM

November 4, 2021
THE DEATH last week of John Traynor, a gangland criminal source of Veronica Guerin who was also suspected of fingering her for her killers... Read more »

JOHN BURNS’S SIGN-OFF

November 4, 2021
DISAPPOINTED APPLICANT for the post of Irish Sunday Times editor, John Burns, signed off as acting editor last Sunday with an interesting editorial flourish... Read more »

PARTITION: McALEESE AND HIGGINS

November 4, 2021
IN EFFORTS to re-educate President Higgins and the public for supporting his boycott of the church event marking the centenary of partition, two prominent... Read more »

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE

October 21, 2021
RTÉ’S HEAD of news, Jon Williams, made some “important announcements” to staff recently as he completed a headlong retreat from the station’s previous position... Read more »

BARRY WALSH’S REVIEW

October 21, 2021
THE SOMEWHAT severe Sunday Times’ review of Conor Lenihan’s biography of late taoiseach and FF leader Albert Reynolds, entitled Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace, was penned by one... Read more »

BAD BOY HIGGINS

October 21, 2021
GOOD TO see that more mature voices felt moved last weekend to correct the populist posturing over the commemoration of partition and the creation... Read more »

TAKING ‘FLACKS’ IN THE MEDIA

October 7, 2021
NEWSTALK’S ANNOUNCEMENT of Anton Savage and Mandy Johnston as anchor presenters for the station’s current affairs and business programmes says much about new owner,... Read more »

MARTIN O’HAGAN’S KILLING

October 7, 2021
THE CANT surrounding the 2001 UVF murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan by the then Independent News & Media heads has been superseded... Read more »

MEDIA TAKE ON HIGGINS

September 23, 2021
POPULAR OPINION may be overwhelmingly with Michael D on the event “marking” partition and the state of Northern Ireland. But much of the media... Read more »

THE ‘SINDO’ AND VLAD

September 23, 2021
THE MOST sensational story Goldhawk has seen for some time – about Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail and his allegation that he was the subject... Read more »

NEW, CARING GARDAÍ

September 23, 2021
IN THE annals of Sunday Independent crime reporting, normally supportive to the point of eclipsing the garda press office, there can hardly have been... Read more »

DES O’MALLEY’S CRITICS

September 9, 2021
THERE IS little mystery about the Irish Independent’s choice of one Eoin O’Malley to critique Conor Lenihan’s recently published biography of former taoiseach Albert Reynolds – Albert... Read more »

SUNDAY TIMES STRATEGY

September 9, 2021
THERE WAS elation last June among employees and the surrounding community at the Kells print plant when News UK & Ireland – owned by... Read more »

IRISH TIMES SCHISM?

September 9, 2021
INTERESTING TWEETS from Irish Times heavyweight politicos last week indicate that columnist and former political editor Stephen Collins is regarded as too heavy-handed in... Read more »

OUR FOREIGN POLICY

August 26, 2021
UNBURDENED BY the presence of a native editor in charge of the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times — none has been appointed since... Read more »

ASSESSING OWEN KEEGAN

August 26, 2021
INCLUSIVE, VARIED opinion is de rigueur (kind of) for respectable media but Dublin City Council ceo, Owen Keegan, provoked an embarrassing divide in the... Read more »

CARTOONISTS CULLED

August 26, 2021
COVID CANCELLED the Rathdrum International Cartoon Festival this year and last (although organisers of the smaller Galway Cartoon Festival intend to go ahead in... Read more »

HAS MYERS FOUND GOD?

August 12, 2021
FOLLOWING THAT chastening experience over his anti-Semitic remarks about two Jewish BBC women, former ST columnist Kevin Myers appears to have retreated to religious commentary.... Read more »

BURNS SWEATS AS EMMA EYES SUITORS

August 12, 2021
IT HAS been 10 months since Frank Fitzgibbon vacated the editor’s post at the Sunday Times (and Times Ireland) and his successor has still... Read more »

NORTHERN INVASION AS SAM JOINS ‘SINDO’

August 12, 2021
LAST MAY Goldhawk advised readers north of the border that they could expect a concerted effort by the Sunday Independent to reintroduce the newspaper... Read more »

DES O’MALLEY’S MEDIA FOES

July 29, 2021
IF DES O’MALLEY did not suffer fools gladly he endured certain hacks – those who were not part of the near idolatrous Desocrats fan... Read more »

‘SINDO’ HIDES HARRIS FROM VIEW

July 29, 2021
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English sacked long-time columnist Eoghan Harris last May because, he said, Harris had written “contemptible” tweets under the pseudonymous Barbara... Read more »

MONICA LEECH’S PARTNER

July 29, 2021
FORMER PR consultant Monica Leech last month suffered an adverse judgment including as yet indeterminate legal costs after she lost her appeal against a... Read more »

BASHING BLUESHIRT BIAS

July 15, 2021
UNA MULLALY is hardly the first Irish Times columnist to take a pop at a government party election candidate, even in the last week... Read more »

THE ‘IT’ … AND TAKING THE XI YUAN

July 15, 2021
A YEAR ago an Irish Times editorial described with apparent approval the “robust” comments and warnings about the aggressive behaviour of China from various... Read more »

CLEAR AS MUD

July 15, 2021
“WHAT IS clear is that O’Connell, a formidable politician, has once again burned her boats. Her remarkable refusal to endorse her party colleague –... Read more »

THE KILLING OF VERONICA GUERIN

July 1, 2021
THE 25TH anniversary of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder by gangsters was marked, for the first time in the quarter of a century since, by... Read more »

COLLINS TURNS ON VLAD

July 1, 2021
TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR should be concerned at the apparent disillusionment of the IT’s Stephen Collins – with not only FG but its leader. Last... Read more »

WHO INVITED DENIS?

June 17, 2021
THE FURORE about the invitation extended to Denis O’Brien to attend northern editor Tommie Gorman’s goodbye event saw a flurry of correspondence between the... Read more »