Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Journalism
Most blogging is parasitical in nature and that is especially true for blogs which primarily focus on news and currentContinue Reading
Irish News, Politics, Culture
Most blogging is parasitical in nature and that is especially true for blogs which primarily focus on news and currentContinue Reading
Another year, another nomination to the Blog Awards Ireland competition. This is the third time in a row for An Sionnach Fionn, though with noContinue Reading
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
As feared the short piece on the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams by 60 Minutes, the primetime current affairs show for the CBSContinue Reading
So one of the principal figures in the incestuous gang-bang that is modern Irish journalism has handed over the reinsContinue Reading
Just a bit of fun – albeit with a bite 😉
A busy weekend behind me and an even busier week ahead so I haven’t had much time to discuss Tuairisc,Continue Reading
For the last three decades the national press in Ireland has been dominated by the publications of the Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
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
In today’s Irish Independent newspaper regular columnist Eoghan Harris recounts a forty year old tale that perfectly illustrates the perverseContinue Reading
One can understand foreign news media misinterpreting the Irish language but our domestic equivalents? The title Óglaigh na hÉireann seemsContinue Reading
I have touched before on the controversy surrounding Boston College’s “Belfast Project” and this site here gives a summation of theContinue Reading
I’m as susceptible to following a good online row as any other Seán or Síle Citizen, though in the caseContinue Reading
On June 18th 1994 in the small Irish village of Loughinisland a number of Irish men and women gathered together in their localContinue Reading