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RTÉ’S DAMNING STATISTICS

February 11, 2021
AS GOLDHAWK predicted, much revisionist accountancy speak has been heard from RTÉ management as it demands the latest round of cuts from its benighted... Read more »

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MARK PAUL’S POLEMIC

February 11, 2021

A PLEA for a raft of state subsidies to prevent newspapers being wiped out by ‘big tech’ was made to the Future of... Read more »

LOYAL SUNDAY TIMES

February 11, 2021

THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times editorialised with sweet reason last weekend about how the north was working its way through the... Read more »

SUCCEEDING FRANK FITZGIBBON

January 28, 2021

THE EDITOR’S seat at the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times is still vacant since the announcement by Frank Fitzgibbon that he was... Read more »

McQUAID’S LONG SHADOW

January 28, 2021

STRANGELY, IN his recent Irish Times column titled “McQuaid’s long shadow hangs over baby homes” – and on RTÉ with Claire Byrne – Ireland’s best-known... Read more »

SINDO REVERTS TO TYPE

January 28, 2021

THE NEED to stand out and be contrarian, even provocative, has become almost de rigueur for many hacks trying to build a profile... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

When she contracted Covid-19, Claire Byrne continued to broadcast from her “garden shed”, a structure with neither a garden tool nor a cobweb in sight. Other shows saw her in a mock-up hospital bed and a mock-up Covid testing facility.

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... Read more »

Former INM group chairman Leslie Buckley launched a court bid to have High Court inspectors removed from their investigation into an alleged data breach.

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »