Irish Media Conspiracies: From Sinn Féin To Lockdown
With the shit show that is the by-election in Dublin Bay South still gurgling away, casting the main parties –Continue Reading
Tag: Sunday Independent
Eoghan Harris Axed By Sunday Independent Over Fake Twitter Account
Yesterday’s late breaking news that the controversial right-wing newspaper columnist and so-called “revisionist” author Eoghan Harris has been sacked byContinue Reading
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
The Othering Of Mary Lou McDonald By The Right-Wing Press
Mary Lou McDonald is almost certain to be the next leader of Sinn Féin. Kim Bielenberg writes filler pieces forContinue Reading
The Inevitable Unionist And Alt-Unionist Failure
On the issue of the United Kingdom’s poisonous legacy colony in Ireland it’s rare to find a bit of non-apologistContinue 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 Green Scare Or The Indo’s Greens Under The Bed Paranoia
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” For many people this infamous question immediatelyContinue 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 Fox News Of Irish Journalism And Politics
It seems that recent statements by the PSNI in Belfast and the coalition government in Dublin have sent the right-wingContinue 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
From Armchair Revolutionary To Armchair Reactionary
Continuing the controversy surrounding the legal tussles over the “bog-standard” mansion of Gorse Hill, situated in the exclusive Dublin suburb of Killiney,Continue 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
Defenders And Defilers Of The Irish State
Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issuedContinue Reading
The Downfall Of The Sindo Bunker
Just a bit of fun – albeit with a bite 😉
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
Does He Mean Us? Yes, He Does
At the start of December last year I wrote a brief post marking the achievement of 400,000 views of AnContinue Reading
Voting Fianna Fáil – Like A Dog Returning To Its Vomit
Another weekend, another poll, this time a telephone survey of 1000 voters by Millward Brown on behalf of the Sunday Independent newspaper. I’m always waryContinue Reading
The Sunday Independent Has An Article On Irish History – Which Favours The Irish!
Something truly strange must have happened in the offices of the Sunday Anglo Independent over the last few days. Why?Continue Reading
Horrible Histories With The Sunday Independent
The Irish Independent’s pet “historian”, John Paul McCarthy, has written a lengthy article on some of the behind-the-scenes events relating to theContinue Reading
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil – The Irish News Media And The Sam Smyth Scandal
As many regular readers may know (you are there, aren’t you?) I frequently bang on about the inequities of theContinue Reading
The Sunday Independent – The Real Threat To Irish Democracy
Today’s Sunday Independent newspaper makes for incredible reading. There is one subject and one subject only; Martin McGuinness. And one clear strategy:Continue Reading
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