COVID SAVES RTÉ
January 14, 2021
THE MEDIA Commission’s investigation into RTÉ’s finances was initially regarded as a crisis management exercise, but one of the great ironies of the pandemic... Read more »
COVID SAVES RTÉ
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SINDO’S BLUE LINE
January 14, 2021
SEVERAL ANONYMOUS sources made assertive comments to a receptive media about the shooting dead of George Nkencho at his home in Clonee recently amid much leaking by the... Read more »
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S MEDIA FANS
January 14, 2021
GOOD TO see the most prominent and indeed responsible political commentators jumping to the defence of An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, as he came under... Read more »
RTÉ TO POACH FROM BBC?
December 16, 2020
WILL RTÉ management be again forced to tap up a BBC journalist to staff their Belfast office given that its northern editor, Tommie Gorman,... Read more »
GALWAY BAY LITIGATION
December 16, 2020
Galway 2020 must have breathed a sigh of relief when former Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely decided not to run in the last local... Read more »
ROSE DEEGAN’S SONG
December 16, 2020
HOW REFRESHING to see the Christmas spirit pierce the normally po-faced publishing exterior of the Irish Times with a human-interest story that hopefully lifted... Read more »
REAL SURRENDER
December 3, 2020
It has not been a good two weeks for those still fighting the War of Independence, seeking a different result. Eoghan Harris’s Sunday Independent... Read more »
POETRY SURPRISE
December 3, 2020
DUBLIN LIBERALS at the Irish Times appear to have liberated their new charges at the Waterford News & Star, previously owned by Irish Examiner... Read more »
BAH HUMBUG!
December 3, 2020
HACKS as well as Bob Cratchit and other staff at the Irish Daily Star were overcome with gratitude at the recent munificence bestowed upon... Read more »
ANNUAL 2020 – AIRWAVES: COVID: A GOOD NEWS STORY
November 19, 2020
While COVID nearly destroyed the economy and laid waste to the independent TV sector right across the country, the disaster zone that has been... Read more »
ANNUAL 2020: ABC OF MEDIA ABANDONED
November 19, 2020
Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the print media still managed to afflict some of the comfortable during a torrid year. Just ask the... Read more »
INM’S MIXED RESULTS
November 19, 2020
A CHEERFUL report in the Irish Independent last week gave figures from the annual results of Independent News & Media Group Ltd, the holding... Read more »
WOMAN MD FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’?
November 19, 2020
WOMEN JOURNALISTS at the Irish Times will surely be pleased should yet another woman take the post of managing director now that Liam Kavanagh... Read more »
STEPHEN COLLINS’S OMISSION
November 19, 2020
A MOST arresting headline on the recent weekly column of former Irish Times political editor Stephen Collins declared, “It’s worth recalling defining moment in... Read more »
NEW EDITOR FOR ‘ST’
November 5, 2020
Frank Fitzgibbon’s resignation as editor of the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times leaves the gate open for John Burns, the man who has... Read more »
MARTIN’S ‘SHARED’ HISTORY
November 5, 2020
AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin developed his shared-island theme with the Guardian last week in an exercise in historic revisionism that will have fazed even... Read more »
IAN BAILEY AND THE MEDIA
October 22, 2020
MEDIA COVERAGE of the garda’s strenuous efforts to put Ian Bailey in the frame for Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder in 1996 initially relied... Read more »
IRISH TIMES ETHICS
October 22, 2020
A CLASSIC Irish Times device was deployed last week when the paper of record published a full page advertisement promoting herd immunity and the... Read more »
PROTESTER UNMASKED
October 22, 2020
GALWAY BAY FM received a flood of complaints following a 19-minute interview-cum-debate with Darragh O’Flaherty, a far-right warrior with anti-immigrant views. The interview followed... Read more »
HACK GOES DOWN ON GALWAY BAY
October 8, 2020
AN INCESTUOUS spat and legal action between Galway Bay FM and a journalist from the radio station’s owners, the Connacht Tribune, was settled in... Read more »
EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL
October 8, 2020
THAT “FEARLESS” Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph correspondent, the late Chris Ryder, was for many years an inspiration to British hacks covering the Troubles,... Read more »
NUIG JOB CONFLICT
October 8, 2020
EX-IRISH TIMES editor Conor Brady’s appointment as Honorary Professor of Journalism at NUI Galway (NUIG) underlines the ambition of the university’s top hack-ademic, Tom... Read more »
KEVIN MYERS’S LITTLE JOKE
September 24, 2020
A PROVOCATIVE statement from Merrion Press, publishers of Kevin Myers’s recent apologia, Burning Heresies, claims the author “was sacked from the Irish edition of... Read more »
UCD/‘IRISH TIMES’ PR
September 24, 2020
A COPY of UCD’s 2020-2021 Alumni magazine recently accompanied each edition of the Irish Times – 50% owners of Gloss Publications, publishers of Alumni... Read more »
EVOKING PIPPA’S PRICES
September 24, 2020
ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS (Ireland), publishers of the Mail titles and Evoke.ie, appears to have become exasperated with social influencers, like Pippa O’Connor and others, who... Read more »
DUKES ‘IN BED’ WITH CHINA
September 10, 2020
FORMER FINANCE minister and Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes will presumably be familiar with the relentless campaign by the Sunday Times Aarish edition to... Read more »
VLAD TO RESCUE MEDIA?
September 10, 2020
THE CONFRONTATION between the Australian government and Facebook over legislation to make digital platforms pay for news content will be watched with interest by... Read more »
PUB RULES
September 10, 2020
THIS WEEK’S decision to allow the so-called ‘wet pubs’ re-open from September 21 was the culmination of a remarkably effective PR campaign waged by... Read more »
FINTAN GET’S IT WRONG!
August 27, 2020
MOST IRISH TIMES readers and certainly those who work in the IT editor’s office would dismiss the notion of Papal infallibility, but they do... Read more »
SHINNERS V JOE DUFFY
August 27, 2020
TO INADVERTENTLY provoke a defamation action from one Sinn Féin TD could be regarded as misfortune, but to do so against another SF TD... Read more »
‘POST’ MITCHELL MED WARS
August 27, 2020
HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly’s bad press can hardly be laid at the door of his new policy advisor, former Business Post health and deputy... Read more »
‘SINDO’ REVISIONISM ON JOHN HUME
August 13, 2020
NEWLY ENSCONCED Sunday Independent editor Alan English oversaw a well-crafted but highly revisionist special section last weekend on his newspaper’s diatribes against the late... Read more »
SUNDAY TIMES PLAYBOOK
August 13, 2020
NO FAFFING around at the Sunday Times (unlike the Sindo) this weekend, where MI5’s favourite newspaper played it straight from the British political and... Read more »
VINCENT CROWLEY’S CV
August 13, 2020
THE SPECTACLE of a former chief executive suing his former employer for breaches of data protection and privacy makes for compelling viewing and there... Read more »
IRISH WRITER NOT CENSORED
July 30, 2020
DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR, critic and musical director Richard Pine, who currently pens a regular ‘Greece Letter’ for the Irish Times and who studied and worked... Read more »
OUT OF REACH
July 30, 2020
THE END of an era was reached recently with John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Irish Mirror after 25 years with the... Read more »