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DECLAN KELLY’S ENEMIES

December 14, 2016
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT hack, Maeve Sheehan did quite a hatchet job recently on transatlantic PR supremo, Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD, Alan Kelly. Sheehan... Read more »

GAA’S SOUR NOTE

December 14, 2016
GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghaíl did not shoot his mouth off without any PR preparation when advocating that the organisation abandon the Irish flag... Read more »

CONOR BRADY SPILLS THE BEANS

December 1, 2016
A CLASSIC, obfuscating Irish Times editorial last week condemned Sinn Féin’s bill to insert neutrality into the constitution as “tilting at windmills”. The newspaper... Read more »

Forbes no fool

December 1, 2016
IS RTÉ director general Dee Forbes’s outsourcing of kiddies’ programmes really as cack-handed and insensitive as most seem to believe? Or is Forbes deliberately... Read more »

Denis O’Brien award

November 30, 2016
Sir,For the record, your statement that I wrote the citation for Peter Murtagh’s winning entry in the recent NewsBrands journalism competition is untrue.Yours etc,John... Read more »

AFTER GARRETT HARTE AT NEWSTALK

November 3, 2016
THE announcement of Newstalk editor-in-chief Garrett Harte’s resignation came five days before the JNLR ratings for all stations. Coincidence? Hardly. But the shrewd Harte... Read more »

Mail hardship

November 3, 2016
GALLEY slaves at the Irish Daily and Sunday Mail were summoned to MD Paul Henderson’s annual state-of-the-nation address and, after years of slashed editorial... Read more »

BARREL OF LAUGHS FROM MARK HUMPHRYS

November 3, 2016
THE SUNDAY TIMES has recently published more than one column from DCU lecturer Mark Humphrys, the latest of which says that if Palestinians are... Read more »

TEACHERS UNION LIBELS HACK

October 20, 2016
THE alleged campaign by Galway City Tribune journalist Dara Bradley against members of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology... Read more »

RTÉ’S COLD WAR EXPERTS

October 20, 2016
IS RTÉ incapable of sourcing geopolitical analysts and commentators who are not seriously conflicted by vested interests in Western war games and in the... Read more »

IAN O’DOHERTY’S CULTURE BLACK OUT

October 5, 2016
IRISH Independent shock jock, Ian O’Doherty, revels in dissing Muslims, feminists, gay activists etc and he has even had a pop at alcoholics for... Read more »

Tasteful Times

October 5, 2016
THE Irish Times criteria for inclusion in its letters pages states merely that such letters should represent a wide range of opinion constrained only... Read more »

O’Brien and media

October 5, 2016
SUNDAY Business Post coverage of Donald Trump’s onslaught against Denis O’Brien was a little hard to follow. Editor, Ian Kehoe suggested that it could... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ AND AN EU ARMY

September 21, 2016
COVERAGE OF post Brexit developments by The Irish Times, whose own appetite for Irish involvement in an EU army has been consistently enthusiastic, was... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS DUMPED BY NÓIRÍN

September 21, 2016
LIKE some unresolved lovers’ tiff, the Indo’s ace cops’n’robbers hack, Paul Williams (now also in Newstalk’s Breakfast line-up) and garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan continue... Read more »

UNA MULLALLY’S SURPRISING RANT

September 21, 2016
WOW! Irish Times columnist Una Mullally socked it to Apple, the “tech sector” and international corporations following the recent Apple tax scandal. These all-powerful... Read more »

APPLE OF MEDIA EYE

September 7, 2016
FINANCE minister Michael Noonan’s ill-prepared handling of the €13bn (and counting) Apple tax EU ruling has led to the Irish Independent demanding his resignation.... Read more »

Holy Orders

September 7, 2016
RECENT Sunday Times coverage of “Angel of Death” priest Fr Michael Kennedy, a cousin of the American Kennedy clan, has given the inadvertent impression... Read more »

JUDGES’ ADVOCATE

September 7, 2016
INFLATED front page promotion two days running, masquerading as news stories, of Irish Times former legal affairs correspondent, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book, The Supreme... Read more »

DAMNED STATISTICS AND THE ‘INDO’

August 24, 2016
THE Irish Independent devoted its entire page three last Friday to a boastful commentary on the latest ABC circulation figures, year on year (the... Read more »

Indo rules OK

August 24, 2016
THE evisceration of sports minister Shane Ross by the Irish Independent in recent weeks is only the latest of several campaigns and political interventions... Read more »

DE PAPER’S QUEST FOR A NEW EDITOR

August 24, 2016
ONE of the Irish Examiner’s in-house front runners to replace outgoing editor Tim Vaughan is deputy editor/sports editor Tony Leen. But there are complications... Read more »

LET HACKS EAT CAKE

August 10, 2016
IRISH TIMES Ltd MD Liam Kavanagh was mistaken if he thought his recent message to staff would temper the hacks’ displeasure about yet another... Read more »

Deirdre Foley’s PR

August 10, 2016
CONGRATS to FleishmanHillard which is making herculean efforts to rehabilitate the battered public image of new Clerys’ owner Deirdre Foley, who had been presenting... Read more »

ALISON O’REILLY’S GUARDIAN ANGEL

August 10, 2016
A COPY of the Irish Mail on Sunday’s (IMS) inquiry into that “interview” given to its reporter, Alison O’Reilly, by Louise James(James’s partner, two... Read more »

EOGHAN HARRIS HOUNDS HALAWA

July 28, 2016
AS IF Ibrahim Halawa, jailed for three years in Egypt without trial and facing a possible death penalty, had not enough to contend with,... Read more »

MCD’s blacklist

July 28, 2016
IS Irish Independent feature writer and music critic John Meagher the latest disrespectful hack to fall foul of omnipotent music promoters MCD Productions? Goldhawk... Read more »

DEE FORBES’S GOODBYE KISS

July 28, 2016
RTE’S NEW director general Dee Forbes gave her “enormously talented” charges a corporate pep talk via a memo to staff when she landed at... Read more »

PAT CAREY’S PRIVACY CASE

July 15, 2016
THE mother of all High Court cases is coming down the tracks in the form of ex-minister, Pat Carey’s action for breach of privacy.... Read more »

New Presenter for Drive Time

July 15, 2016
BRAVELY, Sarah McInerney, due to co-host Newstalk’s new Drivetime programme in September, has left The Sunday Times to take up her new job. The... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS’ WAR

July 15, 2016
“Just to be clear. I thought then and think now, that the moral argument in favour of America intervening in Saddam’s Iraq was overwhelming”,... Read more »

Loveable loyalists

July 2, 2016
The impeccable behaviour of the Irish soccer fans has provoked a cross community response from some quarters that argues the Norn Iron fans are... Read more »

GSOC Vs INDO

July 2, 2016
JUSTICE Frank Clarke’s inquiry into the conduct of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) in an investigation that saw Sergeant Michael Galvin take his... Read more »

Dumb Dearbhail

July 2, 2016
Goldhawk wrote last February that Dearbhail McDonald was agonising about taking the group business editor’s post at INM because of the delicacy of commenting... Read more »

RTÉ POL CORR CONTEST

June 17, 2016
THE two senior political journalists in the state, RTÉ’s political correspondent, David Davin-Power (DDP), and Irish Times political editor Stephen Collins, are due for... Read more »