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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 »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

‘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 »

MARTY WHELAN’S JERUSALEM JUNKET

October 3, 2019

VIEWERS OF RTÉ’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest final in May will have heard presenter Marty Whelan speak of a “visit to... Read more »

DIM FORECAST

October 3, 2019

WHAT A mischievous suggestion was recently published in the Irish Mail on Sunday in a speculative forecast about a Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition... Read more »

‘MAIL’S’ MALE TALE

October 3, 2019

The Irish Daily Mail boasts of its special attention to women readers, but it’s uncertain how an online feature headlined “Dublin strippers reveal... Read more »

INM V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

September 19, 2019

SUNDAY TIMES hack Mark Tighe is being pursued in the High Court by former Independent News & Media’s (INM) group editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae,... Read more »

THE CURRENCY’S CAST

September 19, 2019

HAVING FAILED to buy the Sunday Business Post (see The Phoenix, 3/5/19) Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons – formerly editor and acting editor,... Read more »

BBC TV ‘TROUBLES’

September 19, 2019

THE BBC NI series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History, which began last week, received a lyrical welcome from Máiría Cahill in... Read more »

KERRY OWN GOAL

September 5, 2019

KERRY’S FOOTBALLERS dominated media coverage in the Kingdom this week but another battle – between a local sports titan and Fianna Fáil TD... Read more »

MOUNTBATTEN: CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

September 5, 2019

THERE HAS been little media comment about reports, backed up by interviews with abused victims, that Lord Louis Mountbatten – great-uncle and mentor... Read more »

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ AND WOMEN

September 5, 2019

SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns has leaped to the defence of his male colleagues at the Irish Times and has regurgitated their... Read more »

NÓRA QUOIRIN: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

August 22, 2019

IN AN effort to get ahead of the news, an Irish Times front-page splash on Nóra Quoirin last week said, “Suspicions grow that... Read more »

BREXIT BACKSLIDE

August 22, 2019

Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris is driving a campaign to force the government to yield on the backstop. And the divisions in the main... Read more »