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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 »

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 »

MI5’S CHINATOWN

June 30, 2022
IT HAPPENED 10 years ago but MI5, which takes an uncommonly keen interest in Irish affairs judging by the spooky stories in the Sunday Times Aawrish... Read more »

DENIS STAUNTON’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

June 16, 2022
THE IRISH TIMES obviously believes it has turned a corner if the planned posting of London correspondent Denis Staunton to Beijing comes to pass.... Read more »

BALLOT BOX AND THE TWEET

June 16, 2022
HOPEFULLY A spirit of harmonious academic dialogue will prevail at the Seán MacDiarmada Summer School this weekend where Irish Times journalist and author Ronan... Read more »

RIGHT-WING ECONOMISTS COP ON

June 16, 2022
THE DEBATE engineered by Europhiles and generals aimed at abolishing neutrality egged on by the Irish Times Greek chorus has proved unsuccessful so far,... Read more »

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ VS GOLDHAWK

June 2, 2022
POOR GOLDHAWK is reeling from a frenzied attack by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times whose associate editor, John Burns, is very cross... Read more »

JANE MAHONY’S LETTER

June 2, 2022
A DETAILED and erudite letter to the Irish Times last week took issue with Catholic writer and columnist Breda O’Brien for saying in her... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ HAS BAD ELECTION

May 19, 2022
THE LATHER of excitement about the northern assembly elections whipped up by the Irish Times – stimulated by its craving for the hallowed middle... Read more »

FT’S UNITED IRELAND LECTURE

May 19, 2022
WHAT AN interesting comment Financial Times contributing editor Philip Stephens made in his column last weekend about preparations (or not) for a united Ireland.... Read more »

OLD LADY OF TARA STREET’S TRUSTEES

May 19, 2022
WHAT A perfect business pedigree newly appointed governor of the Irish Times Trust, Maeve Carton, possesses and how well she will fit in with... Read more »

‘STAR’ KOs KINAHAN

May 5, 2022
BELATED VINDICATION accrued to the Irish Daily Star recently when the US of A led the western world in turning against the Kinahans and... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S AWARDS

May 5, 2022
A WARM glow descended on the grandiose awards ceremony run by Business & Finance magazine when it came to the special TK Whitaker Award... Read more »

AZOV HUMAN RIGHTS

May 5, 2022
IRISH-SPEAKING Nadia Dobrianska works for a human rights organisation in her native Kyiv and has become quite the Irish media darling. Dobrianska works for ZMINA,... Read more »

JOHN KILRAINE: RTÉ’S MAN IN LONDON

April 20, 2022
LONG-TIME RTÉ Dublin correspondent John Kilraine is switching capital cities to become the station’s London corr, a logical step in one sense in that... Read more »

MAJORITY DISAGREE WITH ‘IRISH TIMES’!

April 20, 2022
PATHOLOGICAL EUROPHILES at the Irish Times were gobsmacked at the rebuff received from the newspaper’s poll asking if people wanted to abandon neutrality. After... Read more »

ALL KINDS OF DEFAMATION

April 20, 2022
THE IRISH TIMES is the latest newspaper to concede defeat and cough up a serious sum of money to John Brown, brother of Dana... Read more »

‘ST’ BURNS LECTURES ‘RT’ MCDONALD

April 7, 2022
IN HIS quest to dish it to Irish journalist Brian McDonald, of RT (formerly Russia Today), the associate editor of the Sunday Times aawrish edition, John Burns, ransacked the archives... Read more »

‘RTÉ’S EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES’

April 7, 2022
IF TRUTH is the first casualty of war then Montrose should be littered with journalists’ corpses given its by now standard coverage of geopolitical... Read more »

RTÉ’S UKRAINIAN EXPERTS

March 24, 2022
DR PATRICK BURY is regularly interviewed by RTÉ on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is introduced as a lecturer at Bath university and... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ VALUES

March 24, 2022
THERE WAS a time when a broadside from President Michael D Higgins, direct or indirect, against government policy would stimulate controversy and sometimes even... Read more »

WHAT MATTERS AT RTE?

March 24, 2022
RTÉ NEWS unveiled its ‘Truth Matters’ campaign in September 2020 with its own section on the RTÉ News website, including articles, videos and podcasts.... Read more »

DOUGLAS GAGEBY’S LEGACY

March 10, 2022
THE ENTIRE Irish media has wrapped the Nato flag around itself and exhorted an unwilling population to back membership of either Nato or an... Read more »

MCDOWELL’S WAR ON COUGHLAN

March 10, 2022
IT’S NOT just the media – the Irish Times as well as tabloid titles – that have reduced polemic about Russia, Ukraine, the EU... Read more »

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S PANDEMIC

February 24, 2022
GOOD NEWS from the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures about news and current affairs radio programmes was meted out to readers of the Irish... Read more »

MANDARIN MONTY PRESSES HIS CASE

February 24, 2022
GOOD TO see that the arbiters of press complaints – members of the Press Council of Ireland – who exist also to “promote press... Read more »

LITERARY LOVE-IN

February 22, 2022
FINTAN O’TOOLE and John Banville have incurred the ridicule of British satirical mag Private Eye, despite their deserved status as two of Britain’s favourite Irish... Read more »

‘SUN’ SUBS SACKED

February 10, 2022
CUTS AT the Irish edition of the Sunday Times have for years attracted attention as well as causing strife between Irish editorial colonials in... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS SULKS OVER MEDIA AWARDS

February 10, 2022
WITH ETHICAL and egalitarian precepts in mind Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards were reorganised last year in a laudable effort to achieve balance, fairness etc.... Read more »

PRICEY SEASONAL GESTURES

February 10, 2022
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES about soaring inflation – ‘highest in EU’ etc – are apt given the contribution of the newspaper owners themselves to this crisis... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ STANDS FIRM

January 27, 2022
HAS THE Irish Times taken on the responsibility of confronting the forces of republican darkness in these dangerous times now that its own polls show a... Read more »

KATY HAYES AND THE WOMEN

January 27, 2022
TIMING IS, as they say, everything. But while most British readers may not have been outraged at last week’s Sunday Times critical tract, “too many Irish... Read more »

FILM CENSORED

January 27, 2022
FILM-MAKER Teresa Lavina says film festivals and cinemas have been unwilling to screen her documentary ‘Untold Secrets’ centering on a survivor of the Tuam... Read more »

BARONESS KATE HOEY AND THE IRA

January 13, 2022
PROVOCATIVE UNIONIST Baroness Kate Hoey attracted more attention than usual with her remarks about nationalists in various professions such as journalism and the law.... Read more »

RAIDER OF THE LOST TAX

January 13, 2022
NEW YEAR’S DAY is always a slow news day, but this hardly explains why the Irish Times devoted more than 2,500 words to finance... Read more »

MATT COOPER V RTE

January 13, 2022
MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, albeit a little less so since he chucked in his Tonight Show gig on Virgin Media One.... Read more »