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OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

January 26, 2023

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS believe an imposter may have used Eoghan Harris’s identity on social media to launch an attack on the British royal family... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ CRITICS

January 12, 2023

“SPECIAL CONSIDERATION shall be given to the reasonable representation of minority interests and divergent views,” according to the “principles of the Irish Times”.... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS RETREAT

January 12, 2023

EFFORTS BY Mediahuis, publishers of Independent titles and others north and south, to colonise the Sunday market in the north via the Sunday... Read more »

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RTÉ’S MILITARY ‘EXPERTS’

January 12, 2023

TWO DAYS after Christmas RTÉ’s Morning Ireland interviewed the Atlantic Council’s Nicholas Blanford, an expert on the Middle East. Listeners were told that... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ AND CHILD ABUSE

December 15, 2022

ON NOVEMBER 21 last, the Irish Times published a brief report on the passing of 81-year-old Derek Linster (also known as Derek Leinster).... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS SUED

December 15, 2022

RTÉ AND Sunday Independent journalist Brendan O’Connor has arrived late to the privacy party being reluctantly hosted by Mediahuis, owners of the Indo... Read more »

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RTÉ’S ‘TOY SHOW’ DIRGE

December 15, 2022

MEDIA PREVIEWS of Toy Show The Musical were ecstatic, describing the lavish and very expensive production as the “perfect recipe… an instant Christmas... Read more »

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MEDIA GONGS TO BE SILENCED?

December 1, 2022

GOLDHAWK SPECULATED recently that Mediahuis titles might show a marked improvement in the NewsBrands Ireland awards this year compared with their humiliation in... Read more »

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IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY

December 1, 2022

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains... Read more »

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GO, HARVEY, GO!

December 1, 2022

IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals... Read more »

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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN

November 17, 2022

REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light... Read more »

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WHAT A LOVELY WAR

November 17, 2022

AMID MEDIA hand-wringing about Ukraine and Nato propaganda masquerading as journalism, it takes a small NGO to reveal who has really been making... Read more »

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NO IMPEACHMENT AT TRINNERS

November 17, 2022

IT’S BEEN a rocky start for Ailbhe Noonan, newly elected editor of University Times, the Irish student publication of the year for six... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: PRINT – OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

November 17, 2022

UPHEAVALS AT the top of Irish newspapers dominated the print and online market this year. The four or five leading titles all saw... Read more »

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COLD MESS

November 2, 2022

IRELAND’S LOSS is Europe’s gain, as Damien O’Reilly trades in his gig as presenter of RTÉ radio’s Countrywide to head up the Brussels... Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS AWARDS NOMINATIONS SOAR

November 2, 2022

WHAT A hugely enhanced performance has taken place in the standard of journalism at Mediahuis – the largest publishing stable in the country... Read more »

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IT V SF

November 2, 2022

AMID THE welter of media hit jobs on Sinn Féin in the last fortnight, the most surprising such assault came from accomplished Irish... Read more »

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RTÉ’S NEW CHAIR

October 19, 2022

THE SHORTLIST of applicants to replace the chair of the RTÉ board, Moya Doherty, is down to three: super successful broadcaster and digital... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE CULL

October 19, 2022

SOMETHING OF a cultural counter-revolution is happening at the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, where new staff to replace the allegedly over-paid... Read more »

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PLUGGING STEPHEN COLLINS

October 19, 2022

HOPEFULLY PUBLIC ennui with Brexit will not diminish sales of the recently published book, Ireland’s Call: Navigating Brexit, by Irish Times columnist and... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ SAVES COVENEY’S BLUSHES

October 6, 2022

INCORRIGIBLE JOURNALIST Sally Hayden recently spoiled one of those feel-good occasions so beloved by Irish ministers when they posture as benevolent, first-world statesmen... Read more »

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OAKLEY EXITS POST

October 6, 2022

THE DEPARTURE of Business Post editor Richie Oakley is just the latest such resignation and underlines the flight of national editors from their... Read more »

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OAKLEY RIDES AGAIN

October 6, 2022

BUSINESS POST editor Richie Oakley is on the move again and has gone over to what many journalists deride as the ‘dark side’,... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ RUNS FROM ESB

September 22, 2022

THE ESB got both barrels in a recent Sunday Independent article about the “Georgian pastiche façade” to its former HQ, which was derided... Read more »

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JUSTINE MCCARTHY’S NEW GIG

September 22, 2022

McCarthy has fared rather better than some of her journalist colleagues at Murdoch’s Aawrish edition of the newspaper and has landed on her... Read more »

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‘IT’ EDITORIAL FACTIONS

September 22, 2022

THE EDITORIAL view of some journalists at the Irish Times is that the newspaper is conventional (ie right-wing), overtly pro-business, partitionist and old... Read more »

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RTÉ BOYCOTTS DANA

September 8, 2022

THE CRASS behaviour by RTÉ in failing to invite Dana to participate in the RTÉ Concert Orchestra celebration of Eurovision is still confounding... Read more »

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LYNN RUANE’S PARTY

September 8, 2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES’ Atticus column recently published a sniffy piece about “Sinn Féin politician” Senator Lynn Ruane, who failed in her complaint to... Read more »

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REVISIONIST FEUD

September 8, 2022

THE FEUD between two media academics and politicos continues at TCD next week when historian Eve Morrison gives a lecture about the November... Read more »

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MAKING THE MEDIA GRADE

August 25, 2022

AFTER THREATENING last February to walk out of Newsbrands Ireland post haste – because its titles were “treated unfairly” in Newsbrands journalism awards... Read more »

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VICKY CONWAY’S CONCERNS

August 25, 2022

THE MEDIA tributes to academic and policing expert Vicky Conway reflected the genuine esteem in which she was held by her peers. But... Read more »

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MEDIA EYES UP SF

August 25, 2022

IS THE media reverting to its previous attack-dog role against Sinn Féin after a truce of sorts since the general election and more... Read more »

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MEDIA TAKES ON HIGGINS — AND LOSES

August 11, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES got out of jail a fortnight ago courtesy of Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov, who opportunistically embraced Sabina Higgins’s letter to... Read more »

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CATCHING UP WITH HENRY MCDONALD

August 11, 2022

IT WILL be interesting to see just what the book released this week – Rewriting the Troubles: Ireland/Algeria – says about the Workers’... Read more »

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KEVIN MYERS’S ‘SCUM’

August 11, 2022

IN ALL the analysis of the crisis at the Sunday Times Irish edition, perhaps the most poignant was an article arguing that what... Read more »

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PENNY MORDAUNT’S REBEL IRISH ROOTS

July 28, 2022

WHAT FASCINATING information emerged in the media recently about the Republican activities of failed Tory leadership contender, Penny Mordaunt and her predecessors in... Read more »

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