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RTÉ top job

February 11, 2016
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT denials that Denis O’Brien’s right hand woman, Lucy Gaffney, has applied for the job as RTÉ director general are doubly interesting. Two... Read more »

TWO McNAMARAS WORLDS APART

February 11, 2016
THE High Court may shortly be required to assess damages for defamation arising from a Sunday Worst special on internal convulsions within Sinn Féin... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S MEDIA GREEK CHORUS

February 11, 2016
THE preferential treatment and soft soap interview that Newstalk Breakfast host Chris Donoghue gave to disgraced former minister, Michael Lowry, last week is just... Read more »

TOM McHUGH’S PRIVACY

January 28, 2016
LAST month’s RTÉ programme, Standards in Public Office, resulted in certain councillors threatening to sue the pants off the station, but to date there... Read more »

Sunday Times Rebel

January 28, 2016
SUNDAY Times journalist Justine McCarthy appears to have a mischievous streak in her and her recent column attacking the commentariat for their “communal self-abased... Read more »

GENDER QUOTA AT INM

January 28, 2016
YET another prominent and long-standing journalist at the Irish Independent has fallen foul of the red blooded, macho culture at Independent News & Media... Read more »

IRISH TIMES ELECTION CAMPAIGN

January 14, 2016
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST deputy editor and political editor, Pat Leahy, is defecting to The Irish Times after his two months notice expires at the... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S BUSINESS EDITOR

January 14, 2016
PERHAPS the most sensitive post in Irish journalism – INM group business editor – is about to be conferred on Irish Independent associate editor... Read more »

Garda Vs Sunday Times

December 17, 2015
YET another fraught libel action facing The Sunday Times that involves arguments about subversive accusations is that of a former female garda who claims... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS’S “LEGAL AUXILIARIES”

December 17, 2015
THE torture case being take to the European Court of Human Rights against the British Government by the ‘hooded men’ – backed by the... Read more »

IRISH TIMES ETHICAL WAR EFFORT

December 17, 2015
WITH the recent arrest and questioning about Bloody Sunday of a former British paratrooper in the North and more to follow, The Irish Times... Read more »

Indo onto IS?

December 4, 2015
A FRONT-page splash in the Sunday Independent as well as further articles in the Indo reported that “Ireland’s top Islamic State terror suspect” is... Read more »

LEGAL EAGLES’ NEST IMPREGNABLE

December 4, 2015
THE castration of ex-justice minister Alan Shatter’s legal services bill by justice minister Frances Fitzgerald has been roundly criticised, condemned even, by all sections... Read more »

WHO CONTROLS INM?

December 4, 2015
A RECENT paean of praise to Pat Kenny from Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris was followed the week after by Kenny’s own composition of... Read more »

UTV HACKS’ GRIM FUTURE

November 20, 2015
THE galaxy of broadcasting stars and pretty faces lined up by UTV Ireland, which faces likely extinction when ITV completes the purchase of UTV... Read more »

PROF KENNY AND SINDO

November 20, 2015
IS it really possible that the Sunday Independent can dumb down under the post Anne Harris editorial regime? Apparently so, judging by the despairing... Read more »

Free and Independent Press?

November 20, 2015
HOW heartening to see the Sunday Independent is prepared to take on those bullying corporate moguls who abuse their untrammelled wealth and power to... Read more »

Keaveney Makes Guarded Comments

November 16, 2015
GIVEN the upcoming election, Galway East TD Colm Keaveney is more concerned with the Connacht Tribune than INM newspapers’ coverage of his alleged involvement... Read more »

DISCORD AT IRISH TIMES

November 6, 2015
THAT recent reshuffle at The Irish Times involving some of the most senior posts at the Court of Tara Street has created serious discontent... Read more »

HONOURING HORGAN

November 6, 2015
THE ACCOLADES heaped upon former Press Ombudsman, Professor John Horgan, by establishment figures last week would embarrass a man with less self-confidence. But Horgan... Read more »