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DES O’MALLEY’S CRITICS

September 9, 2021
THERE IS little mystery about the Irish Independent’s choice of one Eoin O’Malley to critique Conor Lenihan’s recently published biography of former taoiseach Albert Reynolds – Albert... Read more »

SUNDAY TIMES STRATEGY

September 9, 2021
THERE WAS elation last June among employees and the surrounding community at the Kells print plant when News UK & Ireland – owned by... Read more »

IRISH TIMES SCHISM?

September 9, 2021
INTERESTING TWEETS from Irish Times heavyweight politicos last week indicate that columnist and former political editor Stephen Collins is regarded as too heavy-handed in... Read more »

OUR FOREIGN POLICY

August 26, 2021
UNBURDENED BY the presence of a native editor in charge of the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times — none has been appointed since... Read more »

ASSESSING OWEN KEEGAN

August 26, 2021
INCLUSIVE, VARIED opinion is de rigueur (kind of) for respectable media but Dublin City Council ceo, Owen Keegan, provoked an embarrassing divide in the... Read more »

CARTOONISTS CULLED

August 26, 2021
COVID CANCELLED the Rathdrum International Cartoon Festival this year and last (although organisers of the smaller Galway Cartoon Festival intend to go ahead in... Read more »

HAS MYERS FOUND GOD?

August 12, 2021
FOLLOWING THAT chastening experience over his anti-Semitic remarks about two Jewish BBC women, former ST columnist Kevin Myers appears to have retreated to religious commentary.... Read more »

BURNS SWEATS AS EMMA EYES SUITORS

August 12, 2021
IT HAS been 10 months since Frank Fitzgibbon vacated the editor’s post at the Sunday Times (and Times Ireland) and his successor has still... Read more »

NORTHERN INVASION AS SAM JOINS ‘SINDO’

August 12, 2021
LAST MAY Goldhawk advised readers north of the border that they could expect a concerted effort by the Sunday Independent to reintroduce the newspaper... Read more »

DES O’MALLEY’S MEDIA FOES

July 29, 2021
IF DES O’MALLEY did not suffer fools gladly he endured certain hacks – those who were not part of the near idolatrous Desocrats fan... Read more »

‘SINDO’ HIDES HARRIS FROM VIEW

July 29, 2021
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English sacked long-time columnist Eoghan Harris last May because, he said, Harris had written “contemptible” tweets under the pseudonymous Barbara... Read more »

MONICA LEECH’S PARTNER

July 29, 2021
FORMER PR consultant Monica Leech last month suffered an adverse judgment including as yet indeterminate legal costs after she lost her appeal against a... Read more »

BASHING BLUESHIRT BIAS

July 15, 2021
UNA MULLALY is hardly the first Irish Times columnist to take a pop at a government party election candidate, even in the last week... Read more »

THE ‘IT’ … AND TAKING THE XI YUAN

July 15, 2021
A YEAR ago an Irish Times editorial described with apparent approval the “robust” comments and warnings about the aggressive behaviour of China from various... Read more »

CLEAR AS MUD

July 15, 2021
“WHAT IS clear is that O’Connell, a formidable politician, has once again burned her boats. Her remarkable refusal to endorse her party colleague –... Read more »

THE KILLING OF VERONICA GUERIN

July 1, 2021
THE 25TH anniversary of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder by gangsters was marked, for the first time in the quarter of a century since, by... Read more »

COLLINS TURNS ON VLAD

July 1, 2021
TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR should be concerned at the apparent disillusionment of the IT’s Stephen Collins – with not only FG but its leader. Last... Read more »

WHO INVITED DENIS?

June 17, 2021
THE FURORE about the invitation extended to Denis O’Brien to attend northern editor Tommie Gorman’s goodbye event saw a flurry of correspondence between the... Read more »

DANA’S BROTHER SUES LONDON MET

June 17, 2021
DANA ROSEMARY SCALLON emerged from the Court of Appeal in Dublin recently with a second, satisfactory settlement with the Sunday Worst (now owned by Mediahuis) following... Read more »

SUNDAY TIMES AND THE PADDIES

June 17, 2021
THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times has always been the most gung-ho western organ in the Irish market, reflecting its deference to Whitehall... Read more »

DEFAMING THE NORTH’S DPP

June 3, 2021
MANY RTÉ listeners might wonder why the Today With Claire Byrne programme asked a British defence correspondent to ruminate about the recent acquittal of two parachute regiment... Read more »

SUING THE SUNDAY TIMES

June 3, 2021
FOLLOWING AN incorrect report in the Sunday Times last March that the Smithwick Tribunal had found that a garda sergeant in Dundalk had colluded... Read more »

‘DAMNING JUDGMENT’ IN KERRY

June 3, 2021
‘KERRY’S EYE’ editor Ger Colleran is not the sort of person to gloat in victory but his reporting of a win at the Press... Read more »

BELGIAN PETE SETS UP ‘INDO’ FACE-OFF

May 6, 2021
A KEEN rivalry has developed at Talbot Towers where editors of Mediahuis Ireland’s two main titles the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent – Cormac... Read more »

BATTING FOR MOUNTBATTEN

May 6, 2021
MI5’S FAVOURITE newspaper, the Sunday Times, certainly confirmed its reputation recently with a story about Lord Mountbatten’s assassination, written by Andrew Lownie – author... Read more »

‘BACKWARD SECULARISM’

May 6, 2021
LETTERS TO the editors of the three main Irish newspapers from Brendan Butler, the well-known progressive Catholic activist, deploring their lack of coverage of... Read more »

MICHEÁL’S FOURTH ESTATE DESERTERS

April 22, 2021
AN ALARMING development for beleaguered taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, is that his long-time media champions have begun to desert him with... Read more »

ON AN ASS IN STEPHEN’S GREEN

April 22, 2021
ISN’T IT time the London based Sunday Times filled the editor’s post at its Aawrish edition – vacant since Frank Fitzgibbon announced his retirement last October... Read more »

FORBES’S FOIBLES

April 22, 2021
FORBES MAGAZINE obviously values its reputation as one of the most authoritative financial publications in the world. This helps to explain why the mag... Read more »

SARAH’S PRIME TIME HAS COME

April 8, 2021
COVERAGE OF the cabinet row over new countries to be earmarked for quarantine states and queue jumping vaccine grabbers were nearly eclipsed by saturation... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ REVISIONISM

April 8, 2021
TIME WAS when the Business Post dissented from the mainstream media in several ways, chief among them being a nationalist interpretation of the north that was... Read more »

TACKLING ROBBIE KEANE

April 8, 2021
HAS SINDO sports writer Tommy Conlon struck again in the libel stakes as a rather full-on apology to former Irish soccer star Robbie Keane... Read more »

MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN’S HOUSE

March 25, 2021
A PALATIAL pile, combining space and location, is up for sale in Grosvenor Road, D6, where number 45 is – the Irish Times property... Read more »

SINDO v BOBBY SANDS

March 25, 2021
A RECENT tweet sneering at Bobby Sands’ hunger strike and death from Sindo sports writer Tommy Conlon has caused a furore on social media. But this... Read more »

BEESLEY TICKLED PINK BY ‘IT’ RETURN

March 25, 2021
THE Financial Times is looking for an Ireland Correspondent to replace Arthur Beesley who has returned to his editorial alma mater, the Irish Times. Showing an appreciation of things... Read more »

SMITHWICK TRIBUNAL REVISITED

March 11, 2021
WHAT AN intriguing notice the Sunday Times published last weekend – buried underneath a panoply of outraged letters about perfidious journalist Roy Greenslade –... Read more »