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FRANK MCDONALD’S HIT LIST

October 18, 2018

TRULY FRANK is the title of long-time Irish Times environment correspondent Frank McDonald’s newly published memoir, in which he pays off a few... Read more »

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

EXAMINER’S LEGACY DEBT

October 4, 2018

A LEGACY debt the Irish Times had to pick up following its recent takeover of the Irish Examiner arose from a rather serious... Read more »

RADIO SILENCE

October 4, 2018

KERRY’S EYE sleuth Aidan O’Connor recently provided his newspaper with a local media scoop concerning a €1m High Court judgment against a pillar... Read more »

JOURNALISM MATTERS (SOMETIMES)

October 4, 2018

THE MOST laudable campaign, Journalism Matters Week, launched by NewsBrands Ireland recently, was enthusiastically promoted by the Irish Times in particular. The Old... Read more »

DANA’S LEGAL CAMPAIGN

September 20, 2018

THE unrelenting campaign for vindication being pursued by Dana and her brother, John Brown, against INM titles and others came a step closer... Read more »

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S SCOOPS

September 20, 2018

It’s ironic that Ireland’s most famous investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin, should be the torpedo that sank Gemma O’Doherty’s presidential campaign. In a bizarre... Read more »

WAITING ON DENIS NAUGHTEN

September 20, 2018

ACCOUNTS JUST filed by the joint venture between INM and Northern & Shell that publishes the Irish Daily Star confirm the downward trend... Read more »

NIGEL FARAGE’S SPIN DOCTOR

September 6, 2018

OF THE main personalities fronting the new Irexit party being launched this weekend, former Irish ambassador Ray Bassett and UCD professor Ray Kinsella... Read more »

IRA FILM NOIR

September 6, 2018

I, Dolours, a documentary film based on Ed Moloney’s interview with IRA dissident, the late Dolours Price, gets mixed reviews. Screen Daily’s Fionnuala... Read more »

ABANDONING BIRNEY AND MCCAFFREY

September 6, 2018

THERE is consternation in NUJ circles at the main media’s limp response to the arrests of two award-winning journalists in Belfast. Trevor Birney... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR EXPOSÉ!

August 23, 2018

THE Sunday Independent recently splashed a story across its front page and inside page about relations between Leo Varadkar and health minister Simon... Read more »

MICKEY HARTE VS RTÉ

August 23, 2018

IF RTÉ was unaware of just how some in the GAA, especially in nordie counties, viewed the station over the last 20 years... Read more »

SIMON AND SARAH

August 23, 2018

THE LATEST recruit from media to the government spin machine is Irish Times political reporter Sarah Bardon, who will work for health minister... Read more »

WHELAN SPURNS PRESIDENCY

August 9, 2018

WHAT an interesting sequence of statements emanated from barrister, Irish Times columnist, ex-Fianna Fáil election candidate and putative presidential candidate Noel Whelan in... Read more »

SUSAN MITCHELL’S DISGRUNTLED DOCTORS

August 9, 2018

TWO radically different takes on the CervicalCheck crisis were published last weekend by Sunday Times journalist Justine McCarthy and Sunday Business Post health... Read more »

DON’T MENTION THE WAR

August 9, 2018

DENIS O’BRIEN will be pleased to know that RTÉ is watching his back as he contends with various begrudgers in some parts of... Read more »

ICONIC HACK GEMMA O’DOHERTY

July 26, 2018

GEMMA O’DOHERTY has become a media icon for some and she is regularly referred to as one of Ireland’s foremost investigative journalists. Or,... Read more »

BLACK MARK FOR IRISH TIMES

July 26, 2018

MEDIA EFFORTS to portray July 12 celebrations in the north as happy clappy family affairs are perennial, especially in The Irish Times which... Read more »

SMOOTH TALK AT THE IRISH TIMES

July 26, 2018

THE nervous souls at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo were treated to a soothing session from managing director Liam Kavanagh and IT... Read more »

MICHAEL D’S CHORUS

July 12, 2018

THE IRISH TIMES has shown surprisingly little appetite for the high-minded ethical argument that there should be a presidential contest and has not... Read more »

ISRAELIS FIX IRISH MEDIA POLLS

July 12, 2018

THE ISRAELI propaganda machine is flushed with victory after overturning for the second time an Irish poll which, before being targeted by the... Read more »

OFFENDING ALAN SHATTER

July 12, 2018

THERE was apprehension, on both sides ahead of a meeting between Irish Independent editor Fionnan Sheehan and Alan Shatter to discuss terms of... Read more »

THE FAMINE HACK

June 28, 2018

FRETTING recently over the possible erosion of Irish devotion to Britain and its royal family engendered by Brexit, Irish Times columnist Stephen Collins... Read more »

ROMAN FEUD AT THE IRISH TIMES

June 28, 2018

IRISH TIMES efforts to dispense with longtime Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew without decent recompense are developing into a legal saga in Rome with... Read more »

JODY CORCORAN PROTESTS (TOO MUCH)

June 28, 2018

BARRISTER and ex-politician Noel Whelan’s weekly Irish Times columns do not normally provoke much angst but a recent reference to a Sunday Independent... Read more »

MAIL IN THE BOX

June 13, 2018

THE tongue lashing delivered to group editor of the Irish Daily and Irish Sunday Mail titles, Sebastian Hamilton, by Supreme Court judge Peter... Read more »

EVE HEWSON’S EXCUSES

June 13, 2018

IT SEEMS Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has inherited her dad’s preternatural talent for annoying people. The Brooklyn-based Dubliner had a bit of an... Read more »

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS

June 13, 2018

BUSINESS people’s bible the Sunday Business Post stuck it to the drinks industry recently in a devastating critique of the “well-funded lobbyists” that... Read more »

STEPHEN RAE’S UNTIMELY INM EXIT

May 31, 2018

INM group editor-in-chief Stephen Rae is aghast at the unfavourable impression created, not by the manner of his exit from the newspaper group,... Read more »

WHEN IN ROME …

May 31, 2018

IRISH TIMES management recently told its staff that efforts to throw Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of over 30 years, overboard were carried... Read more »

DAILY MAIL FORGETS TO CAMPAIGN

May 31, 2018

GIVEN THAT the Irish Daily Mail proclaims itself “Ireland’s campaigning newspaper”, readers may have been surprised at the lack of coverage of the... Read more »

HACKS PRIVILEGED?

May 17, 2018

THE imminent appearance of ex-garda commissioners Martin Callinan and Nóirín O’Sullivan at the Charleton Tribunal has the media salivating, but the same hacks... Read more »

MAURICE McCABE’S LEGAL LABYRINTH

May 17, 2018

THAT apology broadcast by RTÉ’s Prime Time last week to Supt Noel Cunningham over his dealings with whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, was humble... Read more »

VARADKAR’S PR

May 17, 2018

“SHAMBOLIC: blame shifts to Varadkar”, was the arresting, not to say provocative, headline on the front page of last Saturday’s Irish Independent over... Read more »

KEAVENEY V IRISH TIMES

May 3, 2018
PRESS Ombudsman Peter Feeney is refusing to deal with ex-TD Colm Keaveney’s complaint against The Irish Times coverage of his travails and truce with... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S GHOST ADVISERS

May 3, 2018

IAN HYLAND’S most impressive “advisory board” on his newly created PR firm, Principal Communications (PC), seems to have disappeared just weeks after it... Read more »