Article Category: Fit to Print?

SF MOVES AGAINST O’BRIEN “MONOPOLY”

May 18, 2016
FANS of The Irish Times and Irish Examiner – but not those of the Irish Independent – will have read recently a report on... Read more »

Politically correct?

May 18, 2016
DOES Irish Times columnist and ex-Fianna Fáil back room functionary, Noel Whelan, not believe he should retract and apologise for his entirely erroneous and... Read more »

VINCENT BROWNE’S SUCCESSOR

May 18, 2016
TV3 management is anxiously calculating just how long Vincent Browne will wait before retiring from his late night show and is scouring the media... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN Vs IRISH TIMES

May 5, 2016
DAYS before the end of the one year period within which a defamation action can be taken, Denis O’Brien has lodged a writ for... Read more »

Pig-Headed Litigant

May 5, 2016
THE jury in a looming High Court libel case against the Sunday World will be presented with a catalogue of crime – some of... Read more »

O’CONNOR AIRBRUSHES DENIS O’BRIEN

May 5, 2016
A SELECTION of 100 defining moments in the last century by Brendan O’Connor in the Sunday Independent was more interesting for what was omitted... Read more »

SEAN O’CALLAGHAN’S EVIDENCE

April 21, 2016
WHAT a spoilsport the Irish Examiner has turned out to be with its failure to defend a libel action from Tralee’s James Sheehan, former... Read more »

LYING DRUG MULE OR MISSIONARY?

April 21, 2016
THE Indo and Sindo managed to transform Michaella McCollum from an Aids charity worker to lying drugs pusher and back again to charity worker... Read more »

Vincent Browne to Retire?

April 21, 2016
LOOKS as though not just Ivan Yates but also that other big broadcasting beast, Vincent Browne, is on his way out of the media... Read more »

Ní Bheoláin Libel

April 7, 2016
PRIVACY is fast becoming the new weapon of choice by those who claim undue coverage of their affairs in the media, and two minor... Read more »

THE GUARDIAN ON IRELAND

April 7, 2016
PUBLISHERS Cork University Press (CUP), recently advertised an interesting critique of the Northern troubles, entitled Britain’s Algeria, France’s Ireland, written by Toronto based author... Read more »

IRISH TIMES: 1916-2016

April 7, 2016
THE Irish Times souvenir edition of the 1916 Rising managed the notable feat of airbrushing out of history not only Sinn Féin but its... Read more »

Business Post vacancies

March 24, 2016
THE departure of Pat Leahy from the Sunday Business Post to The Irish Times (his deputy political editor title indicating that he will succeed... Read more »

MCD BLACKLIST CRITIC

March 24, 2016
A WELL written review of musicians like “bestubbled young guitar strummer, Hozier” – too well written – by music critic Ed Power for The... Read more »

SINN FÉIN LIBEL LOOT

March 24, 2016
THE media onslaught against Sinn Féin has not been entirely without consequence but it is RTÉ, not the Irish Independent, that faces High Court... Read more »

UL Ponders Libel Action

March 9, 2016
UNIVERSITY of Limerick president and vice-president, Don Barry and Paul McCutcheon respectively, are weighing up the unpalatable prospect of backing down from the Limerick... Read more »

(S)INDO ELECTION TARGETS

March 9, 2016
THE Sunday and Irish Independent had a bad election in so far as their ‘side’ lost, but they derived some compensation hits against selected... Read more »

HOOK CRASH TACKLES SEXTON

March 9, 2016
DON’T mess with George Hook if you want a quiet life seems to be the message from someone who can certainly dish it out... Read more »

Kenny V RTÉ

February 25, 2016
THERE is quiet fury among RTÉ broadcasters at DCU media professor Colum Kenny’s attack on the station in The Irish Times last week. Kenny... Read more »

(S)INDO BASHES SINN FÉIN SHOCK!

February 25, 2016
IS the Irish and Sunday Independent’s onslaught against Sinn Féin finally bearing fruit? The (S)Indo coverage of SF during the election is surely worth... Read more »

RTÉ FACE DOWN FINE GAEL TROIKA

February 25, 2016
INCANDESCENT Fine Gael handlers marched into Montrose in the first week of the election quivering with indignation at a Prime Time special that debunked... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »