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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 »

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 »

Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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