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RTÉ’S POLITICAL PRIORITIES

May 29, 2019

WHILE RTÉ’S coverage of the election counts was up to its usual high standard, the scheduling of EU election debates – easily the... Read more »

CREATING THE NEWS

May 16, 2019

YOU HAVE to hand it to whichever Sunday Independent newsroom hack came up with last weekend’s front page headline, “Varadkar’s €3bn tax cut... Read more »

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

SUNDAY TIMES VS HUAWEI

May 16, 2019

The vigorous US campaign to persuade western countries to block Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (allegedly because of the risk of Chinese espionage or... Read more »

DANA’S CROSS-BORDER LIBELS

May 16, 2019

EX-PRESIDENTIAL candidate and singer, Dana, took the Sunday World for a sum not far off €200,000 plus mammoth legal costs in the Belfast... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ BUSINESS

May 2, 2019

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST chief executive Siobhán Lennon’s goodbye bash in Doheny & Nesbitt’s Baggot Street hostelry last week saw her replacement, Colm O’Reilly,... Read more »

DERVAN’S FIERY FAI DEBUT

May 2, 2019

THE THEN FAI boss John Delaney announced the appointment of veteran sports hack Cathal Dervan as the FAI’s director of public relations and... Read more »

NEW MEDIA CURRENCY

May 2, 2019

THE TWO Sunday Business Post journalists — ex-editor Ian Kehoe and executive editor Tom Lyons — who wanted to buy out their newspaper... Read more »

CRIME DOES PAY

April 18, 2019

The International Fraud Prevention Conference, organised by ex-INM group editor Stephen Rae and his best buddy and colleague, Paul Williams, formerly of Newstalk,... Read more »

PRESS SANCTION FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

April 18, 2019

VETERAN Irish Times journalist and former Sunday Tribune editor Peter Murtagh retired last week. The IT fired a shot at Denis O’Brien in... Read more »

KEYSTONE COPS

April 18, 2019

A SCENE of Keystone Cops proportion was conjured up last week by Irish Times, Irish Independent and RTÉ coverage of Garda commissioner Drew... Read more »

INM ‘HACKERS’ FOR HIGH COURT

April 4, 2019

INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA’S (INM) legal and corporate strategy is clear from the decision to take High Court action against former chief executive,... Read more »

INM EXITERS

April 4, 2019

VETERAN EDITOR, Colm MacGinty, has just exited from the Sunday World and is to be followed this month by Sunday Independent executive editor... Read more »

CORBYN AND JIMMY SAVILE

April 4, 2019

A FRISSON ran through the RTÉ newsroom shortly after 7am last Thursday, following the usual Morning Ireland slot, It Says in the Papers... Read more »

RUTH DUD DEPARTS ‘SINDO’

March 21, 2019

LONG-TIME Sunday Independent scourge of Republicanism Ruth Dudley Edwards bid the newspaper au revoir recently. However, she reassured anxious readers that, while she... Read more »

FIONA MITCHELL’S DESK

March 21, 2019

RTÉ’S departing south-eastern correspondent, Damien Tiernan, gave the station a lash as he walked out the door in January. Tiernan pointed out that... Read more »

GEMMA EXPOSES CHRISTCHURCH!

March 21, 2019
“INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST” Gemma O’Doherty has either produced the international scoop of the 21st century or shot herself in various limbs with the assertion that... Read more »

DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS

March 7, 2019

TRIUMPHANT BOASTS and victory cries over the competition always accompany the Irish Independent’s reporting of the circulation figures and the latest ABC results... Read more »

FINTAN’S FOE

March 7, 2019

IRISH TIMES opinion enforcer Fintan O’Toole, expressed his distaste last year that New York Times columnist Ross Douthat should welcome the notion of... Read more »

‘MAIL’ MANAGEMENT MASSACRE HACKS

March 7, 2019

THE PRE-CHRISTMAS hack-cleansing at the Irish Daily Mail (see The Phoenix, 30/11/18) has been followed by another onslaught against staff at the newspaper... Read more »

BOYCOTTING BETHANY

February 21, 2019

THE VIRTUAL boycott of the Bethany Homes scandal (over 200 babies died there in the first 27 years of the state) by the... Read more »

VINCENT BROWNE’S LIBEL FEUDS

February 21, 2019

FORMER justice minister Paddy Cooney (88 next month) has received comforting financial compensation and a measure of vindication arising from his serial litigation... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ HUBRIS

February 21, 2019

THE TRIUMPHAL tone of Irish Times managing director Liam Kavanagh’s recent message to staff declaring victory over its Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew’s unfair... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN TO EXIT MEDIA?

February 7, 2019
IS DENIS O’BRIEN trying to offload not only his Newstalk radio station but also his stake in Independent News & Media, the now-crumbling media... Read more »

PADDY AGNEW’S SCOOP

February 7, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES’S parting with its 28-year Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew (or sacking, as Agnew and many colleagues argue) has led to protracted... Read more »

‘INDO’ EVICTION FOLKLORE

February 7, 2019

THE print media sometimes rails against the unregulated irresponsibility of social media, but what restraints are there against the nonsense sometimes purveyed by... Read more »

SDLP MEDIA SPIN

January 24, 2019

A CASE STUDY in how a political agenda is manufactured and disseminated via the media – whether or not it is factual –... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S MEDIA CRITICS

January 24, 2019

THE DISSING of Shane Ross by his Fine Gael cabinet ‘colleagues’, normally given a loud airing by FG’s media Greek chorus, recommenced last... Read more »

‘STAR’S’ NEW REGIME

January 24, 2019

NEWS THAT the Indo group is embarking on another round of cuts has caused yet more gnashing of teeth among the hapless hacks.... Read more »

McCABE, HACKS AND LEGAL EAGLES

January 10, 2019

IRISH TIMES crime correspondent Conor Lally did a demolition job on Mick Clifford and the Irish Examiner recently for their incorrect story on... Read more »

THE INDO’S EVICTION COVERAGE

January 10, 2019

IRISH INDEPENDENT coverage of the attack on security men who evicted the McGann family from their Strokestown home was a masterpiece of investigative... Read more »

‘GUARDIAN’ BURIES PAEDOPHILE STORY

January 10, 2019

GRIFFITH COLLEGE journalism academic Niall Meehan asked online on New Year’s Day why the Guardian in 2017 had removed, without explanation, an online... Read more »

‘BUSINESS POST’ COUNTER REVOLUTION

December 13, 2018

A QUIET coup appears to have taken place at the Sunday Business Post, with a purge of the editorial top brass and their... Read more »

MARTINA FITZGERALD’S BOOK

December 13, 2018

WAS IT Martina Fitzgerald’s book, Madam Politician, that jinxed the (former) RTÉ political correspondent, who lost her position last week? Certainly, Martina had... Read more »

‘IT’ OUTSIDER

December 13, 2018

HISTORIAN and Irish Times columnist Diarmaid Ferriter quoted Irish Times columnist Kathy Sheridan to buttress his Irish Times column heaping hyperbolic praise on... Read more »

INM AWARDS ANGST

November 29, 2018

BEING BEATEN into second place by The Irish Times – again – in the NewsBrands journalism awards, the Sunday and Irish Independent editorial... Read more »

THE IT VS SHANE ROSS

November 29, 2018

THE OLD Lady of Tara Street will need smelling salts if or when Shane Ross’s execrable Judicial Appointments Bill is passed into legislation.... Read more »