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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

‘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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »