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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,... 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... Read more »

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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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

‘INDO’ CORPSE COUNT

March 26, 2020

WE ARE facing one hell of a lot of corpses in the next few weeks if the part-time virologists, pneumonologists and epidemiologists in... Read more »

LEGAL MAUL

March 12, 2020

EX-IRELAND rugby legend and captain Rory Best may have to shortly tog out for an off-field scrummage of far greater significance – legally... Read more »

SISI’S SUPPORT

March 12, 2020

A THUNDERING Irish Times editorial marking the recent death of the Egyptian “dictator”, President Hosni Mubarak, sympathised with the Egyptians who had lived... Read more »

JOURNALIST STALKED

March 12, 2020

THE “abominable” stalking of Irish News security correspondent Allison Morris, whose life and that of her family was rendered unbearable for three years,... Read more »

TOP-10-HEAVY RTÉ

February 27, 2020

THE PROCESS of Brendan O’Connor’s appointment as replacement for the late Marian Finucane’s weekend slot had all the finesse and transparency of a... Read more »

PHELIM MCALEER’S OLD COLLEAGUE

February 27, 2020

JOURNALISTS PHELIM McAleer and his partner, Anne McElhinney, have homed in on the Harvey Weinstein trial with daily podcasts, according to an obliging... Read more »

RUSSIAN AGENTS ON IRISH LAND AND SEA

February 27, 2020

SUNDAY TIMES intelligence sources have stimulated yet another Russian scare and the paper recently exposed a dastardly plot by Russian agents operating in... Read more »

BORIS’S AWRISH PAL

February 13, 2020

THE NOW-stateless author, journalist and former spokesman for EU Commissioner Ray MacSharry, Scottish-born John Cooney has refused to renew his British passport in... Read more »

CONOR LENIHAN’S PREDICTION

February 13, 2020

FORMER MINISTER Conor Lenihan was introduced, humorously, to RTÉ’s Election 2020 programme last Sunday as personifying the only Russian influence in the general... Read more »

‘INDO’ ATTACKS POLITICAL BIAS

February 13, 2020

MEDIA REACTION to Fine Gael’s election meltdown plunged to further depths the day before the general election when the Irish Independent front page... Read more »

MARKING PAUL’S CARDS

January 30, 2020

A CLARIFICATION in the Irish Times noted recently that its article about foreign investment in Israel “involved a visit to Israel… organised and... Read more »

‘FRIENDLY’ SPIES

January 30, 2020

AN INTRIGUING story appeared in the Irish Times before Christmas headlined, “Cabinet warned about threat from foreign spies”. The story referred to a... Read more »

ADVERTISING SNAKE BITES

January 30, 2020

IN AN unusual departure for the Irish Times, the newspaper devoted two full-coloured broadsheet pages (pages two and three in front of the... Read more »

MARIAN’S ADMIRERS

January 16, 2020

LIKE EVERY other media and many politicians, the Sunday Independent eulogised the late Marian Finucane, but there was a slight edge to Liam... Read more »

RIC AND THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

January 16, 2020

THE Irish Times may be ruing its own campaign – via former political editor Stephen Collins and its own editorial platform – in... Read more »

CONOR GANNON CLEANS UP

January 16, 2020

A FORMER clerical student at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, Conor Gannon, is ploughing his way, so far successfully, through a raft... Read more »

MYERS’ DUAL LIBEL SUITS

December 12, 2019

KEVIN MYERS will be grateful for an extraordinary slip up by RTÉ in his High Court action for libel against a Morning Ireland... Read more »

HERMANN KELLY’S CORRECTION

December 12, 2019

HERMANN KELLY, founder of the decidedly, er, right-of-centre Irish Freedom Party and spin doctor for Nigel Farage has struck a blow for freedom... Read more »

FIFTH COLUMNIST FINTAN

December 12, 2019

THE Irish Times has been in full-on battle mode against proposals for a citizens’ assembly to prepare for a border poll and has... Read more »

NOT IN FRONT OF THE HACKS

November 28, 2019

‘SMILING CHILDREN, not sour-faced journalists’ is the best description of the urgent stratagem deployed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and communications minister Ricky Bruton... Read more »

MATT COOPER’S MARKETING

November 28, 2019

IF SUNDAY Business Post editor Richie Oakley can surmount his awe of the paper’s new columnist, Matt Cooper (Richie’s editorial mentor at the... Read more »

D’ARCY SPURS GARDA PR CAMPAIGN

November 28, 2019

IT’S UNLIKELY that junior minister Michael D’Arcy will get much credit if the flurry of Garda activity in the violent campaign surrounding Quinn... Read more »

RTÉ SPLIT: DEE VS MOYA

November 14, 2019
YOU HAVE to feel sorry for RTÉ director general Dee Forbes, who is faced with the wrath not only of her staff but also... Read more »

BORDERLINE PARANOIA

November 14, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES has responded to growing calls for a border poll with an avalanche of criticism that reached a climax in the... Read more »

JOURNO AWARDS EGO FEST

October 31, 2019

DIGITAL-SAVVY hacks got into the Newsbrands Journalism Awards website some weeks ago (the gong circus is to be held in the Mansion House... Read more »

INM’S BELGIAN BEER INTERVIEWS

October 31, 2019

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Cormac Bourke’s “new role” as editor of the Irish Independent was announced in the Sindo recently, with Cormac quoted as... Read more »

‘SINDO’ BLUSTER

October 31, 2019

THE REACTION of the Sunday Independent to Boris Johnson’s abandonment of his hard line on Brexit, the north and his former ‘allies’ (the... Read more »

McGREGOR SPLITS MEDIA AWARDS

October 16, 2019

THE Newsbrands Journalism Awards judging process has proceeded with the usual behind-the-scenes bickering and lobbying. Already the Irish Mirror’s editor-in-chief, John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans,... Read more »

AND THE WINNER IS…

October 16, 2019

“WHY WOULD I not believe it?” was the plaintive cry of non-Nobel prize-winner John Banville, quoted in the Irish Times last weekend. Banville... Read more »

ULICK O’CONNOR’S SPECIAL SEAT

October 16, 2019

ARGUMENTATIVE, hot-tempered and sometimes even threatening, writer and critic Ulick O’Connor was Goldhawk’s favourite rebel contrarian – even when being verbally abused by... Read more »