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 »
DUKES ‘IN BED’ WITH CHINA
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Ó SNODAIGHS’ MOTOR CARS
July 30, 2020
LISTENERS TO Joe Duffy’s Livewhine radio show shortly after the general election would have been taken aback to hear Joe apologising for a slip... Read more »
SETBACK FOR DANA
July 16, 2020
THE LIBEL juggernaut launched by former presidential candidate and ex-MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon, against various media, ground to a temporary halt in the High... Read more »
VICTORIA ABDICATES
July 16, 2020
AMONG THOSE journalists stepping back from the media to facilitate the new government is Irish Examiner columnist Victoria White, wife of Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.... Read more »
‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE
July 16, 2020
SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns must suffer from medium-term memory loss accentuated by an irony deficit. His outpourings on sexism, discrimination and freedom... Read more »
WHO’S AFRAID OF DANIEL KINAHAN?
July 2, 2020
THE STAR’S gamble in announcing a boycott of the proposed Anthony Joshua/Tyson Fury fight has paid off spectacularly as gangster Daniel Kinahan was effectively... Read more »
IRISH TIMES GENDER ISSUES
July 2, 2020
THOSE STROPPY Irish Times women haven’t gone away, you know. A report from IT women journalists alleging all manner of sexist, “macho” behaviour by... Read more »
DUTCH MASTER SALES
July 2, 2020
MEDIAHUIS’s INM publisher in Ireland, Peter Vandermeersch, has been quoted as having scant respect for INM’s digital strategy (“incredibly, there was none”) and not... Read more »
IVAN’S HARD NECK
June 18, 2020
THE RETIREMENT of The Hard Shoulder presenter on Newstalk, Ivan Yates, was announced by the ex-Fine Gael minister in February following a settlement with... Read more »
BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S REINVENTION
June 18, 2020
THE REINVENTED, caring Brendan O’Connor is beginning to grate almost as much as when he prided himself on dishing it to every vulnerable group... Read more »
‘SINDO’ SENSITIVITY
June 18, 2020
WEDNESDAY’S Irish Times opinion and analysis page has recently resembled an old Sunday Independent edition, with former Sindo personalities Anne Harris and Michael McDowell... Read more »
‘IRISH TIMES’ PATRIOTIC DUTY
June 4, 2020
IF A programme for government is agreed shortly, then the Irish Times will deserve plaudits (especially political editor Pat Leahy) from the three parties... Read more »
TOM MCGUIRE’S SUCCESSOR
June 4, 2020
CLAIRE BYRNE and Miriam O’Callaghan must wait until another top radio job – a replacement for the retiring head of RTÉ Radio 1, Tom... Read more »
‘SINDO’ RENAISSANCE?
June 4, 2020
THAT ANY newspaper editor should proclaim as ground breaking an interview with the leader of the biggest vote-getting party in the country, Sinn Fein’s... Read more »
ALL KINDS OF WRITS
May 21, 2020
COVID-19 KNOWS no boundaries, but neither does the determination of Eurovision winner, ex-MEP and two times presidential candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon to exact vindication... Read more »
‘INDO’ POLITICAL TEAM
May 21, 2020
THE ELATION of Philip Ryan, newly appointed group political editor at INM, was evident on Twitter recently. Ryan enthused about the Indo’s newsroom, himself... Read more »
VLAD TAKES GLOVES OFF
May 7, 2020
IT’S THE lure of dangling money at the broken newspapers for political purposes that Varadkar is about in stimulating those supportive media reports about... Read more »
ENDA O’COINEEN’S ADS
May 7, 2020
WITH THE media suffering a collapse in advertising (at least non-state advertising) it was nice for the Business Post to be able to run... Read more »
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
May 7, 2020
VILLAGE EDITOR Michael Smith has become embroiled in a six-month-long spat with journalist Jason O’Toole over the magazine’s publication of O’Toole’s interview with cervical... Read more »
CONNOR MURPHY’S RTÉ GIG
April 23, 2020
ALTHOUGH APPOINTMENTS to state boards have effectively been put on hold while the interim/caretaker government remains in situ, it turns out that some positions... Read more »
CASSANDRA COLEMAN
April 23, 2020
LOOKS LIKE mercurial economist Marc Coleman is on the loose again, having been tamed within IBEC for a few years. Earlier this month, he... Read more »
RTÉ’S COVID-19 MESSAGE
April 9, 2020
THERE WAS a noticeable shift in media coverage of the government’s efforts last weekend as hacks woke up to the fact that maybe there... Read more »
SINN FÉIN’S “BELLIGERENCE”
April 9, 2020
ACCORDING TO Irish Times northern editor Gerry Moriarty, the newly resurrected Stormont executive is in danger of falling apart and it’s all the fault... Read more »
STEPHEN RAE’S ‘STRAITS TIMES’
April 9, 2020
FORMER INDEPENDENT News and Media (INM) group editor Stephen Rae’s been out of the journalism business for a while, but he’s keeping his pen... Read more »
MARK PAUL BITES BACK
March 26, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS more than a little surprised to see a blistering attack on one Dermot Desmond over his use of the Irish Times to... Read more »
NEWSBRAND’S BAIL-OUT
March 26, 2020
THE CEO of the lobby group for the newspaper sector, Newsbrands Ireland – Ann Marie Lenihan – has asked “that government commits to investing... Read more »