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 journalist... Read more »
BEEB MAN KICKS ASS IN RTÉ
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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 O’Brien... 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 Celtic... 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 that... 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 the... 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 Simon’s... 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 vote... 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 reverse... 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 media... 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 at... 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 and... 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 the... 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 a... 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 quite... 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 Desmond... 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 trying... 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 for... 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 of... Read more »
McGUINNESS: HERO OR MONSTER?
April 5, 2017
THE Daily and Sunday editions of the Mail in Ireland published some measured articles on Martin McGuinness following his recent death, chronicling his deadly... 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 Travellers... 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 proclaims... 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 case... 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 Tribunal?... 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 Authority... 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 of... 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 Commission... 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 barbs... 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 glowing... 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 in... 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 My... 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 man... Read more »
Damery dismisses apology
January 25, 2017
AN apology appeared in the Irish Examiner last week to Ciaran Damery for wrongly accusing him of the rather serious crime of involvement in... 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 resume... Read more »
‘IT’ IGNORES CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL
January 12, 2017
THE Church of Ireland Gazette reported with commendable independence in November and December on the decades long scandal and tolerance of a St Patrick’s... Read more »
Nero lashes out
January 12, 2017
EVEN by Sindo standards the hatchet job by Jody Corcoran and Dan White on the Sunday Business Post last Christmas was splenetic. Apparently the... Read more »
‘INDO’ SNOWFLAKES
January 12, 2017
THE hysterical reaction from Irish liberals to an Irish Times article explaining the opinions of the alt-right movement was distinctly illiberal as well as... Read more »