Best-known for co-founding Setanta, Mickey O’Rourke is now a major shareholder in the publisher of Joe and Lovin' Dublin.
Unlike in comparable countries, journalists here are not seeing pay and conditions worsen nor falling behind the rest of the population. This is a privileged position to be in.
Dublin Bay South TD Chris Andrews is suing the newspaper and its political correspondent Harry McGee over a piece analysing Sinn Féin's response to the Hamas attack on Israel last month.
Brand's calcified persona was met with appreciation by men and global systems, most notably after the third wave of feminism in the 1990s – almost as if his presence alone told women that they should be nothing more than quiet, f**kable, and willing to do what they were told.
Board members have a right to demand answers to questions to enable them to do their job. The evidence indicates that they were found wanting.
Four hours of scrutiny before the Oireachtas Media Committee ranged from the state broadcaster’s finances and malaise to radical property proposals.
Deep inside the broadcaster’s latest data dump lie years of internal documents highlighting issues with procurement, tendering, unapproved spending and rogue taxi bills. Here’s what we found.
The state broadcaster’s top sources of revenue are the licence fee and TV advertising, but both were in decline last year. As RTÉ heads into another bail-out, its governance record will come under increased scrutiny.
The commercial deals of RTÉ stars have come under scrutiny since the Tubridy payments debacle kicked off, yet the station is now approving ads for expensive cosmetic procedures on presenters' personal social media accounts.
Listening to Michael Parkinson that evening, journalism, radio, and television in the England of the 1970s appeared to reflect an emerging dynamism, free-spiritedness, or even bolshiness of younger generations in northern England.
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