Article Tag: Sunday Times

MEDIA BUDGETARY ECHO CHAMBERS

October 3, 2024

Hats off to the Government handlers who secured fawning coverage of the budget long before Jack Chambers uttered a word last Tuesday. The... Read more »

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SUE GRAY: IRELAND’S FRIEND

September 19, 2024

THE RENEWAL of “friendship” between Britain and Ireland, the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times recently reported, has much to do with the... Read more »

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TRINITY’S DEFINITION DILEMMA

July 11, 2024
HAVING FACED down the college authorities in May over ties between Trinners and Israeli institutions, the TCD Students’ Union and the Trinity Boycott, Divestment,... Read more »

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IRISH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

April 18, 2024

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times appears to have corrected its revisionist line on British foreign policy and has been brought to... Read more »

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SUZANNE GILHOOLY’S JEWELS

April 18, 2024

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the taxman has registered a judgment for a less than blingy €2,400 against a company called C&S Jewellery Ltd, where... Read more »

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HUGH O’CONNELL’S LONG GOODBYE

April 4, 2024

THE EXIT of Hugh O’Connell from Mediahuis, where he was deputy group political editor working for the Sindo and Indo, came at a... Read more »

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LIBERAL MEDIA DEBATES FAR RIGHT

April 4, 2024

APPEASEMENT IS a notion that some media columnists are using and debating right now in the face of a right-wing backlash against so-called... Read more »

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MIRIAM AND BRENDA SOCK IT TO THOMAS

February 22, 2024

IRISH TIMES columnist Miriam Lord gave Fianna Fáil minister Thomas Byrne, the party’s leader on the referendums, a good talking to recently and... Read more »

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ARSON ABOUT

January 11, 2024

THOSE MOST-favoured words of security correspondents, “security… senior… sources”, can cover a multitude of issues when gardaí want to get a message across... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ NEW LINE

January 11, 2024

THE NEW editorial regime at the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times – with editor Kieran McDaid and associate editor Michael McNiff –... Read more »

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‘MIRROR’ OVER REACHES ITSELF

December 14, 2023

THE ELEVATION of Irish Sun editor Kieran McDaid to the hot seat occupied until recently by Nóirín Hegarty at the Aarish edition of... Read more »

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SIMON COVENEY’S AMBITIONS

December 14, 2023

YOU REALLY have to wonder who, apart from one of Simon Coveney’s people, inspired that Sunday Times story last weekend headlined, “TDs tip... Read more »

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PIPPA O’CONNOR’S PLUG

November 15, 2023

PIPPA O’CONNOR is expanding her empire with a new range of cosmetics and she must have been delighted with the drooling profile in... Read more »

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CORMAC LUCEY’S HOT AIR

November 15, 2023

Climate denial comes in all guises but Goldhawk was surprised to see it appear on the website of the august Chartered Accountants Ireland.... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: PRINT MEDIA NOT YET ON THE ROCKS

November 15, 2023

IRELAND’S PRINT media resembles the Titanic. With print revenues falling and digital income insufficient to make up the difference, disaster seems pre-programmed. But,... Read more »

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OFFALY ‘MURDER’ AND JUDGE’S ORDERS

October 18, 2023
DISTRICT COURT judge Andrew Cody clearly possesses a sophisticated and flexible legal brain and he has not moved to haul the Sunday Times into... Read more »

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‘SLAPPING’ THE MEDIA

August 10, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS greatly impressed by the deliberations of various politicians, lawyers and media executives who gathered at the Oireachtas joint committee on justice... Read more »

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WILL THE NATO CAMPAIGN WORK?

May 18, 2023

IF THE Born-Again-Redmondites (BARs) in Government fail to deliver Irish neutrality up to the dogs of war in Nato and Brussels, it will... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ IMPLOSION

March 23, 2023

THE PURGE or exodus of seasoned journalists from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times has been well chronicled in these pages, as... Read more »

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SPY GAMES

March 22, 2023

TWO SHARPLY contrasting takes on alleged Russian ‘spy’ Marina Sologub – booted out by Australian authorities and the subject of much spooky speculation... Read more »

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BRIAN ORMOND’S MISSTEP

March 8, 2023

BARELY A year after benefiting from oodles of free advertising in the Irish media, courtesy of gushing articles about Brian Ormond’s move into... Read more »

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NEIL FRANCIS’S WINNING PERFORMANCE

February 22, 2023

WHILE FORMER Ireland rugby international Neil Francis must still be red-faced after last month’s Sunday Times front-page apology over his ‘story’ on a... Read more »

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EUGENE MURTAGH’S PROPERTIES

February 22, 2023

“KINGSPAN BILLIONAIRE Eugene Murtagh is deploying more of his family’s fortune in Dublin 2,” the Sunday Times reported last week. Murtagh has, of... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ TICKS OFF ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

February 9, 2023

THE TRANSFORMATION of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times from heavyweight editorial to low-brow human-interest stories is a direct result of London’s... Read more »

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KISS AND TELL?

December 15, 2022

THE MEDIA handling of that video showing incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar kissing a man in a nightclub combined a mixture of fear, ethical... Read more »

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SUNDAY TIMES’ TRUMP CARD

December 1, 2022

ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times on those dastardly Sinn Féin operators reported that the party has “taken a... Read more »

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IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY

December 1, 2022

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains... Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE CULL

October 19, 2022

SOMETHING OF a cultural counter-revolution is happening at the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, where new staff to replace the allegedly over-paid... Read more »

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JUSTINE MCCARTHY’S NEW GIG

September 22, 2022

McCarthy has fared rather better than some of her journalist colleagues at Murdoch’s Aawrish edition of the newspaper and has landed on her... Read more »

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JOHN BURNS’S PAPER TRAIL

August 25, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a curious media piece by John Burns of the Sunday Times last week, in which he wrote about... Read more »

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PROFILE: JOHN BURNS

August 11, 2022

THE CLEAR OUT of Sunday Times journalists leaves the Irish edition of that august institution in the last-chance saloon under the tutelage of... Read more »

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LAFFAN V O’BYRNE

August 11, 2022

PRESUMABLY THE tweedies in the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) were suitably entertained by a scathing review in the Sunday Times of Robert O’Byrne’s... Read more »

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KEVIN MYERS’S ‘SCUM’

August 11, 2022

IN ALL the analysis of the crisis at the Sunday Times Irish edition, perhaps the most poignant was an article arguing that what... Read more »

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MURDOCH’S DAYS OF CARNAGE

July 28, 2022

WHAT HACKS at Sunday Times Ireland and Times Ireland called ‘days of carnage’ came to an end last week with more than a... Read more »

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