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‘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 »

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 »

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 »

‘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 »

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 »

‘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 »

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 »

BROWN SUES LONDON MET AND CPS

December 16, 2021
DANA ROSEMARY Scallon and her brother John Brown are near the final stages of their multiple actions against various media, securing apologies and large... Read more »

THE MICA FALLOUT …AND THE CASSIDYS

December 16, 2021
A TORTUOUS Irish Times editorial thrashed about recently in search of answers – and suitable targets – to the mica scandal, pointing to how... Read more »

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 »

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 »