Article Category: Fit to Print?

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 the country’s leading newspapers dominated the print and online market this year. The four or five leading titles all... 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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RTÉ BOYCOTTS DANA

September 8, 2022
THE CRASS behaviour by RTÉ in failing to invite Dana to participate in the RTÉ Concert Orchestra celebration of Eurovision is still confounding those... Read more »

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LYNN RUANE’S PARTY

September 8, 2022
THE SUNDAY TIMES’ Atticus column recently published a sniffy piece about “Sinn Féin politician” Senator Lynn Ruane, who failed in her complaint to the... Read more »

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REVISIONIST FEUD

September 8, 2022
THE FEUD between two media academics and politicos continues at TCD next week when historian Eve Morrison gives a lecture about the November 1920... Read more »

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MAKING THE MEDIA GRADE

August 25, 2022
AFTER THREATENING last February to walk out of Newsbrands Ireland post haste – because its titles were “treated unfairly” in Newsbrands journalism awards –... Read more »

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VICKY CONWAY’S CONCERNS

August 25, 2022
THE MEDIA tributes to academic and policing expert Vicky Conway reflected the genuine esteem in which she was held by her peers. But many... Read more »

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MEDIA EYES UP SF

August 25, 2022
IS THE media reverting to its previous attack-dog role against Sinn Féin after a truce of sorts since the general election and more than... Read more »

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MEDIA TAKES ON HIGGINS — AND LOSES

August 11, 2022
THE IRISH TIMES got out of jail a fortnight ago courtesy of Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov, who opportunistically embraced Sabina Higgins’s letter to the... Read more »

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CATCHING UP WITH HENRY MCDONALD

August 11, 2022
IT WILL be interesting to see just what the book released this week – Rewriting the Troubles: Ireland/Algeria – says about the Workers’ Party... Read more »

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KEVIN MYERS’S ‘SCUM’

August 11, 2022
IN ALL the analysis of the crisis at the Sunday Times Irish edition, perhaps the most poignant was an article arguing that what really... Read more »

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PENNY MORDAUNT’S REBEL IRISH ROOTS

July 28, 2022
WHAT FASCINATING information emerged in the media recently about the Republican activities of failed Tory leadership contender, Penny Mordaunt and her predecessors in Ireland,... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS RESHUFFLES EDITORS

July 28, 2022
PETER VANDERMEERSCH enjoyed the title of publisher of Mediahuis Ireland until recently but from next Monday he will glory in the title of Mediahuis... Read more »

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NEWSPAPER COVER PRICE INFLATION

July 28, 2022
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, last Sunday week, front-paged its story of Johnny Ronan’s bid to “up price of housing” at the Irish Glass Bottle site in... Read more »

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MCINERNEY FAVOURITE

July 14, 2022
WITH RSVP citing Sarah McInerney as favourite at 3/1 to take over Claire Byrne Live — the RSVP list ran to nine presenters with the outside... Read more »

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JON WILLIAMS’S SUCCESSORS

July 14, 2022
MINOR MYSTERY surrounded that Covid-19 super-spreader going-away party attended by RTÉ broadcasters recently. This is presumed to have assisted the infection of some of... Read more »

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ABUSE OF SDLP MEMBERS

July 14, 2022
SDLP MLA, Cara Hunter, received much sympathetic media coverage, north and south, after she was targeted with online porn smears. This falsely depicted her... Read more »

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FIRST CASUALTY

June 30, 2022
THE CORDIAL and professional relationship enjoyed by poet Kevin Higgins and Irish Times books editor Martin Doyle is probably down to their shared, aesthetic... Read more »

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BILLY BINGHAM’S GESTURES

June 30, 2022
RECENT OBITUARIES to Northern Ireland soccer manager and player, Billy Bingham, in the Irish Times and Sunday Independent were positive, cheery even, as befits... Read more »

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