The details contained in the INM report paint a picture of boardroom dysfunctionality and raise profound questions about the stewardship of the media group during the period under inspection.
INM’s proposed takeover of Newstalk ruptured an already fractured relationship between the CEO and the chairman of the listed company, part-triggering a protected disclosure. This is the blow-by-blow account of how the deal turned sour.
After a six year investigation, the veteran journalist still has no credible explanation why a bullseye target had been pinned on his back by secretive data hunters.
After a "significantly hampered" six-year investigation, this is what we know about the data interrogation saga at INM.
The Corporate Enforcement Authority, Leslie Buckley, Mediahuis and Denis O'Brien made statements on the findings of the report into Independent News and Media. Former INM executives Gavin O'Reilly and Karl Brophy described it as a "weird report".
Former business journalist Rory Godson has been allowed to renew his summons against INM and its former chair Leslie Buckley over alleged data hacking at the media group, despite opposition from the defendants.
A letter from former INM chair Buckley’s solicitors which was opened in the High Court outlines the scale of the challenge facing the 79-year-old long-term associate of the tycoon Denis O’Brien.
Independent News and Media argued there was significant overlap between the lawsuit brought by its former directors and the long-running investigation into alleged data hacking being carried out by High Court-appointed inspectors.
Former INM chief executive Robert Pitt was described by the court as "merely a witness" and "not a protagonist" in Leslie Buckley's failed attempt to have inspectors withdrawn from the media group.
Ex- INM chairman Leslie Buckley tried to stop former staff and journalists using information aired in open court to pursue a series of damages suits against him and the company
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