A “carefully targeted” report on Independent News and Media is how PR consultant James Morrissey described the 2016 study on Irish media plurality, in his evidence on Monday afternoon. Commissioned by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan, the report looked at the concentration of media ownership and criticised Morrissey’s client, the businessman Denis O’Brien, for being litigious against journalists while holding a 29 per cent stake in INM along with extensive radio interests.   When published in October 2016, Morrissey said he read the report twice and concluded it was “hopelessly biased” and didn’t pass the test of being a comprehensive professional…

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