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DAIL’S WAR CORRESPONDENTS

July 13, 2017

THE Fine Gael leadership contest was a polite straightforward affair compared to the machinations surrounding the election of a new chair of the... Read more »

Indo Contempt

July 13, 2017

THE Irish Independent’s angst about TD Paul Murphy and supporters of the Jobstown Six being allegedly in contempt of court may be intensified... Read more »

‘MR SHOWBIZ’ DONE FOR FRAUD

July 13, 2017

LEO VARADKAR will have been impressed at the northern Department for Communities’ successful prosecution last month of journalist Paul Martin for defrauding £13,250... Read more »

O’BRIEN V KEAVENEY

June 29, 2017

DENIS O’Brien’s brief, Michael Cush SC, told the Court of Appeal last week that former Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney’s Dáil speech criticising... Read more »

Indo savages Varadkar

June 29, 2017

THERE is a distinct polarisation between The Irish Times and Irish Independent on new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with the Indo attacking him while... Read more »

BEEB MAN KICKS ASS IN RTÉ

June 29, 2017

BBC legend John Simpson once remarked that while RTÉ’s new managing director of news and current affairs, Scouser Jon Williams, was a top... Read more »

INM’S ‘NO’ TO CELTIC MEDIA

June 15, 2017

THE “mutual” decision by INM and Celtic Media Group to go forward “on a separate footing”, thus ending the proposed INM buy-out of... Read more »

Noel Whelan’s U-turn

June 15, 2017

WHAT a perceptive student of British politics Irish Times columnist Noel Whelan is. Just days before the UK general election Whelan pointed out... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ AFGHAN WARRIOR

June 15, 2017

WHY does the Irish media continue to present military commentators to the public as if they were detached observers in violent conflicts across... Read more »

COVENEY’S INDO CHOIR GIRLS

June 2, 2017

THE Irish Independent made a desperate attempt to rally support for its favoured Fine Gael contender Simon Coveney last Saturday while also lauding... Read more »

Harris’s Pendulum Swings Again

June 2, 2017

THE straight-talking, no-nonsense Eoghan Harris told Sindo readers and Newstalk’s Ivan Yates recently that if he were a Fine Gael member he would... Read more »

Israeli Intervention?

June 2, 2017

THE Irish Times appears to be the target of a cyber attack from Israeli supporters as a concerted attempt has been made to... Read more »

‘IT’ BLACK AND WHITE KNIGHTS

May 17, 2017

LAST October, Denis O’Brien made the cryptic comment that he understood “The Irish Times is currently considering various funding options” and that certain... Read more »

IVORY TOWER WHISTLEBLOWERS

May 17, 2017

“THINKBigAtUL for 2017” was the call from UL Links, the University of Limerick’s glossy full-colour 64-page magazine inserted in The Irish Times recently... Read more »

DANA: ALL KINDS OF LITIGATION

May 3, 2017

DANA’S brother, John Brown, was acquitted in 2014 in a UK court of all charges of indecently assaulting two underage girls, but he... Read more »

NEWSTALK SHY ABOUT RATINGS

May 3, 2017

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Irish Independent boasted three months ago that Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk programmes, Newstalk Breakfast and Newstalk Drive, had produced “significant” increases in... Read more »

Anton Savage’s PR

May 3, 2017

THE Irish Sun gave Anton Savage a much needed boost by reporting that the ex-Today FM programmer could be on the verge of... Read more »

IRISH TIMES’ LAST CHANCE SALOON

April 19, 2017

EXITING Irish Times editor Kevin O’Sullivan has expressed excitement at his new role as environment, agriculture and science editor but he put up... Read more »

Reviewing Desmond Traynor

April 19, 2017

IF Irish Times critic and literary diva Eileen Battersby was treated with kid gloves by the Sunday Independent, her own critic, Sindo reviewer... Read more »

VICTORIA WHITE’S TSUNAMI

April 19, 2017

IRISH EXAMINER columnist Victoria White last week stuck it to those Harry Houdinis in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil whom she charged with... Read more »

MYERS AND MOTHERS’ MILK

April 5, 2017

EXHIBITING characteristic tenderness for society’s victims, Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers condemned those “pseudo republican papist zealots” and Irish society as a whole... Read more »

Post V. INM

April 5, 2017

DAVID McWILLIAMS has disappeared from the pages of the Sunday Business Post and is now disporting his flamboyant talents in the Saturday edition... Read more »

MORE POWER TO TRAVELLERS

March 23, 2017

SUNDAY TIMES hack Brenda Power, champion of settled people persecuted by jackbooted Travellers, offered an ingenious response within days of the government recognising... Read more »

HARRIS HEDGES BET

March 23, 2017

PUNTERS looking for guidance on the fluctuating Fine Gael leadership tussle should keep a watch on Sunday Independent seer Eoghan Harris who often... Read more »

INM Libels

March 23, 2017

WHAT a stirring clarion call to defend freedom of expression was made by Independent News & Media (INM) recently and what a compelling... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S BOSWELL

March 9, 2017

IS Denis O’Brien’s enthusiastic apologist, John J May, deliberately trying to provoke a libel writ from one or more principals in the Moriarty... Read more »

Cop Culture

March 9, 2017

WITH exquisite timing the current edition of Garda Review, organ of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), was published the day before the Policing... Read more »

RE-IMAGINING RTÉ

February 23, 2017

ON April Fool’s Day last year RTÉ board chair Moya Doherty announced the appointment of Dee Forbes as director general saying: “The appointment... Read more »

Irish Times inequality

February 23, 2017

JANUARY WAS undoubtedly a bad month for the paper of record, with its rivals gleefully seizing upon an admonishment by the Works Relations... Read more »

‘(S)INDO’ WOMEN FOR CHARLETON TRIBUNAL

February 23, 2017

THE Sunday Independent took another swipe at the Sunday Business Post last weekend via the Zozimus (Liam Collins) column with another litany of... Read more »

RONAN FANNING’S ‘WHITE NIGGER’

February 9, 2017

“A DEEP appreciation of the importance of archives” and “a relish for the power plays of high politics” were just two of the... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S DAMNED STATISTICS

February 9, 2017

COVERAGE of the latest JNLR (12 months to December 2016) radio ratings of Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk in Denis O’Brien’s Irish Independent was hilarious... Read more »

Sindo discretion

February 9, 2017

IRISH TIMES literary correspondent Eileen Battersby would not have been displeased at her newspaper’s review last autumn of her first novel, Teethmarks on... Read more »

IVAN YATES OFF AIR

January 25, 2017

THE return from his US sojourn of former minister, bookie and broadcaster Ivan Yates has not resulted in Denis O’Brien begging him to... Read more »

TK WHITAKER’S VIEW OF DENIS O’BRIEN

January 25, 2017

THE Sunday Independent wrote with typical hyperbole about recently deceased TK Whitaker, pointing out that he had been voted the greatest living Irish... Read more »