Category: Media

BARRY EGAN’S BILLING

Affairs, Media, 21 April 2021

Now that a new regime has its feet under the table at the Sindo, there appears to be a shift in the prominence attached to particular writers. While some new voices have been brought front and centre, readers have noticed that others, such as Barry Egan, don’t appear to have the star billing they previously... Read more »

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XPOSÉ-ING AISLING O’LOUGHLIN’S CAMPAIGN

Affairs, Media, 13 April 2021

QUERYING WHETHER RTÉ broadcasters Ryan Tubridy and Claire Byrne were genuinely ill is the latest bizarre move by Aisling O’Loughlin. The journalist has called on RTÉ to declare any “conflicts of interest” in relation to finance. “How much have you received from Big Pharma and Big Tech over the past five years in advertising, sponsorship... Read more »

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TOMMY TIERNAN’S REINVENTION

Affairs, Media, 8 April 2021

HAS THE success of Tommy Tiernan’s chat show accelerated his transformation from enfant terrible to the new saviour of Montrose? It’s all a far cry from 2005 when RTÉ was forced to deny that Tiernan had been banned from The Late Late Show – then hosted by Pat Kenny. This occurred after it received more... Read more »

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A TALE OF TWO COLETTES

Affairs, Media, 2 April 2021

Leaving behind a media career to enter the political communications sphere is a well-trodden path, but it’s not without its inherent dangers. The chance of the move being short-lived, for instance. This hasn’t deterred Colette Browne, who is taking the reins as newly-appointed communications director of the Soc Dems. In doing so, she is leaving... Read more »

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SUNDAY TIMES’ UNSPORTING OMISSION

Affairs, Media, 1 April 2021

READERS OF last weekend’s Sunday Times’ Sport supplement would be forgiven for wondering if the paper is unaware that women participate in sport? There was certainly no evidence of that over the course of its 24-page spread, as every single article was about men in sport and not a single one about women. Of approximately... Read more »

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SINDO’S MID-LIFE CRISIS

Affairs, Media, 30 March 2021

YOU’D HAVE to wonder how many mid-life crisis columns by radio broadcasters the average Sunday newspaper actually needs? Or how “new” a columnist can be when they have already been writing for the paper for a number of years? Sindo readers certainly may have pondered these questions, as the latest columnists were unveiled with much... Read more »

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NAUGHTY STEP FOR VIRGIN MEDIA TV

Affairs, Media, 24 March 2021

VIEWERS MIGHT be forgiven for wondering if Virgin Media Television operates on the principle of, “You can’t have too much of a good thing?” Take Wednesday’s schedule, for example, when “Supernanny” Jo Frost popped up as an interviewee on two programmes on Virgin Media One, broadcast only three hours apart. Viewers of the Elaine show... Read more »

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CANCELLING CIARA KELLY

Affairs, Media, 15 March 2021

CIARA KELLY’S husband has become the latest person to incite the wrath of the Twitter “wokerati,” with his valiant endeavours to defend the Newstalk presenter’s honour. Whether Eoin O’Mahony is doing Kelly any favours by jumping in whenever she is mentioned in relation to Linda Hayden is another thing. Then again, it must be hard... Read more »

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MEDIA GUARDIANS

Affairs, Media, 15 March 2021

UNSPOKEN AGENDAS have become a hot topic in recent weeks, culminating on Sunday with Alan Rusbridger’s departure from the Future Media Commission. The former Guardian editor has been subject to barrage of criticism in the fall out from the controversy surrounding journalist Roy Greenslade and there was no shortage of column inches devoted to questioning... Read more »

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MORE RULE BRITANNIA AT THE IT

Affairs, Media, 10 March 2021

HAS THE Irish Times finally scraped the bottom of the historical barrel? Recent months have seen the paper print a stream of unhinged columns of a British and Unionist perspective. Moderate voices be damned and Goldhawk wonders if presenting its readers with increasingly the most extreme and one dimensional expressions of British identity is not... Read more »

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IMAGE PUBLICATIONS’ STRATEGY

Affairs, Media, 10 March 2021

HAVING PUT its print titles on hiatus last March, Image Publications is now hoping to entice readers to part with dosh to read its online articles. Its nascent digital offering was launched with typical Image hyperbole, promising “a new website, a new team, new faces (as well as lots of the ones you already know... Read more »

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LUCY KENNEDY’S SHUFFLE

Affairs, Media, 9 March 2021

WITH THREE radio show changes on the horizon, can we expect to see new life breathed into the morning breakfast show landscape, or will it be more of the same? Classic Hits revealed this week that it will be swapping its breakfast team of PJ Gallagher and Jim McCabe for Radio Nova’s Colm Hayes and... Read more »

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RTÉ’S SUSSEX KERFUFFLE

Affairs, Media, 5 March 2021

WHILE THE Brits are duking it out over the rights and wrongs of Oprah’s forthcoming interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, a right royal rumpus has erupted over here too. The decision by the national broadcaster to show the interview on RTÉ 2 on Monday, the day after it airs on CBS in the... Read more »

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SWELLING RTÉ’S STAFF

Affairs, Media, 4 March 2021

IS THE world of media about to receive a wholesale shake-up in relation to its relationship with freelancers and self-employed contractors? Many journalists will be interested in reports that RTÉ has offered staff contracts to 81 people, after the Revenue Commissioners raised concerns over their trading relationship with the station. This followed its analysis of... Read more »

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CILL RIALAIG’S CORRECTION

Affairs, Media, 23 February 2021

READERS COULD be forgiven for failing to notice the correction the Sindo carried in relation to the colourful Noelle Campbell-Sharp, which was discreetly tucked into the contents page of the People & Culture supplement. Razor-Sharp was unhappy at being mistakenly referred to as the owner of the Cill Rialaig artists’ retreat in Kerry in an... Read more »

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FRAMING TWINK

Affairs, Media, 18 February 2021

YOU HAVE to hand it to Twink, aka Adele King, who certainly knows how to command the attention of those on high when highlighting her personal gripes. Her penchant for theatrics and adding colour to media outings can be the only justification for the lengthy airing RTÉ’s Liveline gave her this week, which resulted in... Read more »

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INM’S DIGITAL TAX PITCH

Affairs, Media, 12 February 2021

WRITING IN the Irish Times, Séamus Dooley explained how the NUJ is proposing a windfall tax of 6 per cent on tech giants like Facebook and Google. Applying a digital tax mirrors what is happening in Europe, where the OECD is orchestrating negotiations with over 130 countries to adapt the international tax system to reflect... Read more »

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IRISH TIMES GREENWASHING

Affairs, Media, 10 February 2021

CONGRATULATIONS ARE order for super conglomerate Nestlé, whose positive commitment to the planet is not often a feature of the headlines. Less praise should be reserved for Environmental Editor Kevin O’Sullivan who has reproduced the infamous polluter’s marketing in the Irish Times business pages. Disappointed rugby fans can find something to cheer as the paper... Read more »

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VANDERMEERSCH KNEADS THE FLYNNS

Affairs, Media, 27 January 2021

THE GOOD denizens of Greystones will undoubtedly be relieved to hear that the Happy Pear twins have saved it from international disgrace on the bread front. Mediahuis Ireland publisher, Peter Vandermeersch, recently moved to the Wicklow coastal town, and was dismayed to find it “almost a wasteland” in terms of dough-related output. The Dutch-Belgian publisher... Read more »

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IMAGE PROBLEMS

Affairs, Media, 13 January 2021

GOLDHAWK UNDERSTANDS that the keys to the Dun Laoghaire office of Image Publications Ltd (IPL) have been handed back. If this is true, it doesn’t augur well for the future of the company’s print titles – Image, Image Interiors & Living and Garden Heaven. Then again, most publishing companies’ staff are working from home these... Read more »

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NO PRIME SPOTS FOR PRIME TIME

Affairs, Media, 11 January 2021

THE LESSONS in diplomacy Richard Downes gleaned while reporting from war zones may come in useful in his new position as editor of Prime Time. Especially as his new appointment sees him leapfrogging over Paul Tanner – deputy editor since 2016 – to take the top position. Downes has been a reporter on RTÉ’s flagship... Read more »

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MARY KENNEDY’S EGO BOOST

Affairs, Media, 4 January 2021

OBVIOUSLY IT’S a slow time of the year for news, which is the only explanation we can think of for the Sindo inflicting yet another turgid interview with Mary Kennedy on us. The fact that she simultaneously appeared on the back page of the People & Culture supplement – in a full-page osteoporosis treatment advertisement... Read more »

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THE MAN – AND WOMEN – IN THE MIRROR

Media, 30 December 2020

WHILE MOST papers make a song and dance about their senior appointments, they do things a bit differently chez the Irish Sunday Mirror. Perhaps the quiet ushering in of Sylvia Pownall as the paper’s new editor last month is the approach favoured by British owners Reach. Stiff upper lip and all that. The senior appointment... Read more »

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A WHOLE LOTTIE INFLUENCING AT 2FM

Affairs, Behind the Scenes, Media, 8 December 2020

AS SHE beeps at them while driving her brand new wheels through the RTÉ car park, brand ambassador and 2fm entertainment presenter, Lottie Ryan, must surely attract envious glances from colleagues. Or maybe naked jealousy, since there appears to be a recent relaxing of the national broadcaster’s previously iron-cast rules forbidding presenters from entering into... Read more »

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HACKED OFF AT THE JOURNALISM AWARDS

Affairs, Media, 23 November 2020

THE NEWSBRANDS Journalism Awards were conducted virtually this year, which allowed hacks who failed to bring home a gong the opportunity to present their best loser face via Zoom. While the annual back-slapping event has become famous for its post-ceremony tiffs over the origin of stories – and newly-departed Mirror editor Jumbo Kierans will be... Read more »

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POLLING PROBLEMS

Affairs, Media, 6 November 2020

IRISH TIMES Washington hack Suzanne Lynch had something of an epiphany as the votes were counted this week. America’s Election 2020 is the latest political event to confound predictions. Not long after the first results arrived on Tuesday night, Lynch on social media suggested that “serious questions should be asked about polls and the role... Read more »

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RTE’S FAKE NEWS

Affairs, Media, 4 November 2020

Did RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes wince on hearing Steve Bannon interviewed on Radio One Tuesday evening? The former Trump strategist appeared on Drivetime this week to offer an, erm, alternative view, of events in America. “Its great to have you on”, announced Cormac Ó hEadhra, as the host introduced the myth of Bannon as... Read more »

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RTÉ RECORD BREAKERS

Affairs, Media, 30 January 2020

FEARS THAT the RTÉ newsroom is dominated by subversives were put at ease on Wednesday following a positively glowing report on government’s housing efforts. In breathless tones, the story variously alerts readers to the “biggest drop ever recorded in the homeless statistics” and “the largest recorded monthly drop”. Behind it all, the number of people... Read more »

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BRUTON’S CONFUSION

Affairs, Media, 30 January 2020

CONFUSION SET IN last night when Minister Richard Bruton claimed that an Irish Times story about the fate of Catherine Noone was a “fabrication”. Around half seven on Wednesday evening the IT published a report by Fiach Kelly detailing Fine Gael’s difficultly in dealing with their embattled candidate. The article said that Fine Gael had... Read more »

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IRISH TIMES SLIPPERY FISH

Affairs, Fowl Emissions, Media, 7 January 2020

HOW CURIOUS to see that aquaculture has found its champion in Stephen Collins at the Irish Times. The former political editor took a break from the usual diet of electoral analysis and Leinster House intrigue last week in order to advocate on behalf of beleaguered salmon farmers. No fish out of water, Collins was armed... Read more »

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FIFTH COLUMNIST FINTAN

Affairs, Media, 19 December 2019

THE Irish Times has been in full-on battle mode against proposals for a citizens’ assembly to prepare for a border poll and has published a stream of articles from conservative southern politicians and journalists aghast at the prospect. But the already nervous partitionists at the IT were most disconcerted to see that their political oracle,... Read more »

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SOLIDARITY WITH RTÉ

Affairs, Media, 18 November 2019

IVAN YATES and Matt Cooper thundered recently about the inept, spendthrift, tax-funded RTÉ on their Virgin One The Tonight Show as the private TV station piled the pressure on its crisis-ridden broadcasting rival. The two presenters made much of RTÉ’s cost base and double funding via the licence fee and advertising, with Cooper dismissing the... Read more »

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RTÉ SPLIT: DEE VS MOYA

Affairs, Media, 15 November 2019

YOU HAVE to feel sorry for RTÉ director general Dee Forbes, who is faced with the wrath not only of her staff but also the RTÉ board, which has serious doubts about her and the other executives responsible for the plan to save RTÉ. The scoop about the plan, secured by Irish Times hack Fiach... Read more »

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THAT BIG MIRROR SCOOP

Affairs, Media, 14 November 2019

As anticipation builds ahead of tonight’s Newsbrands Journalism Awards, it is worth recalling Conor McGregor’s alleged ‘love child’ and the internal wrangling over whether the story should be shortlisted for ‘scoop of the year’. Goldhawk has previously detailed the fractious debate among showbiz judges regarding the story’s eligibility and a dispute which eventually led to... Read more »

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INM’S BELGIAN BEER INTERVIEWS

Affairs, Media, 6 November 2019

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Cormac Bourke’s “new role” as editor of the Irish Independent was announced in the Sindo recently, with Cormac quoted as looking forward to the “new challenge”. The Sindo published a (nearly) exhaustive list of Bourke’s editorial roles, which include various editorial roles at the Indo and other non-INM titles. All of which... Read more »

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JOURNO AWARDS EGO FEST

Affairs, Media, 4 November 2019

DIGITAL-SAVVY hacks got into the Newsbrands Journalism Awards website some weeks ago (the gong circus is to be held in the Mansion House in a fortnight) and accessed the articles submitted – intended for shortlist judges’ eyes only. The security breach enabled some journalists to scrutinise competitors’ articles, however the really creative work was contained... Read more »

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