Gemma O’Doherty And That Presidential Candidacy
It’s probably too early in the race for Áras an Uachtaráin to pay overmuch attention to the mixed slate ofContinue Reading
Tag: Irish Independent
The Email Data Breach At Independent News & Media
Out of legal necessity, one needs to tread very carefully while discussing the emerging scandal at Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar And The Irish Independent’s Prurient Tabloid Journalism
As citizens and voters, do you need to know if your politicians are married or in a relationship? Do you need to knowContinue Reading
No, Declan! You Never Go Full Tinfoil Hat!
Declan Lynch, regular Sunday Independent columnist, drinks deep from the paranoid well of the partitionist core, before rushing to the battlements of Dublin Castle,Continue Reading
The Excusers And Apologists For The Bloody Sunday Massacre Are Still With Us
At the tail end of last year the former British army commander turned security “expert”, Tim Collins, writing in Britain’s conservative SundayContinue Reading
Irish Neutrality Versus The Anti-Islamist Armchair Generals
A bleak headline from a story in the Irish Independent, reporting the words of the Fine Gael minister of justice, FrancesContinue Reading
Circle Jerk Journalism From The Sunday Independent
“Circle jerk” is a slang term in American English normally defined as a sexual act, sometimes associated with pornography, where several individualsContinue Reading
The So-Called Irish Press
The meaning of the English idiom “so-called” is generally given as, “So named; called by such a name, with a veryContinue Reading
Gene Kerrigan’s MediaBite Interview
MediaBite, a website founded in 2007 by David Manning and Miriam Cotton to analyse the intellectually incestuous group-think of Irish journalism, has an excellent interviewContinue Reading
The Human Centipede
So one of the principal figures in the incestuous gang-bang that is modern Irish journalism has handed over the reinsContinue Reading
The Many Faces Of The Irish News Media
Jim Cusack, the “security” correspondent of the Sunday Independent newspaper and arch-apologist for British colonial policing in Ireland, has pennedContinue Reading
Tony O’Reilly, Entrepreneur Or Ideologue?
For the last three decades the national press in Ireland has been dominated by the publications of the Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
Existential Angst From John Waters
John Waters, journalist, newspaper columnist, philosopher-at-large and general man-about-town, has given an angry interview to the Irish Independent complaining aboutContinue Reading
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
The latest electoral poll shows Sinn Féin on 21%, just a handful of points behind Fianna Fáil’s 25% and FineContinue Reading
Ian O’Doherty – The Answer To A Question Nobody Asked
The latest noxious brain-fart from the Daily Mail wannabe in today’s Irish Independent newspaper: “Despite RTÉ’s incessant efforts to makeContinue Reading
Life As Usual In The Westie Independent
Oh for God’s sake… “An Englishman gave us back our flag — and now we are reclaiming our own languageContinue Reading
Colum Kenny, The Irish Independent And Some Media Spin
Colum Kenny is a regular columnist for the Oirish Independent newspaper, popular amongst right-wing types and other motley conservatives. Here’s his bio from Dublin City University (DCU): “Professor ColumContinue Reading
RTÉ Versus TG4
Ireland’s Anglophone media establishment has never been comfortable with the Irish language. Or indeed Irish speakers. The existence of bothContinue Reading
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