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Retirement of sports journalist Seán Moran an end of an era
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (162+ words) Sir, – I was saddened to see that your GAA correspondent Seán Moran is retiring. It is well earned. Like his predecessor Paddy Downey, he belongs in that great pantheon of sports journalists that not only The Irish Times has produced,…...
RTÉ is straying into areas already well served by private publishers
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (673+ words) Jerry Seinfeld had a line about how amazing it was that the amount of news happening in the world each day “always just exactly fits the newspaper”. The joke worked because everyone half-knew the secret. The news did not fit…...
Irish people trust major news brands but are switching off more and more, report shows
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (564+ words) Irish people continue to trust major news brands but are losing trust in news more generally, according to a new report. The annual Digital News Report Ireland 2026, published by Coimisiún na Meán, shows 42 per cent of Irish people trust most…...
Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell: ‘I turned down an OBE because I didn’t want British Empire as part of my name’
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1888+ words) Land, her vivid tenth novel, draws on the life and work of Tomás, who was employed on the Ordnance Survey project to map Ireland after the Famine, and Liam, her great-grandfather, who left the Jesuits to become a mapper, “a…...
‘They’re nice people but...’ Is public funding for news media its saviour or threatening its freedom?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1321+ words) State funding can raise tricky questions for the independence of the media, according to observers in the media itself, academia and politics. “Is it okay for news media to take money from the Government? Instinctively, the answer is no,” says…...
Another violent attack on Trump brings a short-lived truce in his battle with the media
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (318+ words) The Irish Times Another violent attack on Trump brings a short-lived truce in his battle with the media Plus, the evolution of pundit Tucker Carlson and his break with Trump Hugh is joined by Irish Times Washington correspondent Keith Duggan…...
Inviting Trump to Doonbeg? Smile and tolerate
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (240+ words) Sir, – The sensitive issue of inviting the current US president to the Irish Open in Doonbeg while quietly hoping he is unavailable reminds me of the familiar dilemma of inviting an overbearing aunt to a family wedding. The consequences of…...
How Trump transformed America’s media order
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1722+ words) In 2016 Donald Trump declared war on the press. He barred reporters from rallies, mocked them from the podium, and popularised a certain phrase – “fake news”. Trump, a New York real estate developer long obsessed with his media coverage, had spent…...
Books in brief: Black Bag; Afloat; and You Want What We’ve Got: Big Tech v Big Journalism
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (20+ words) The Irish Times...
Eileen Culloty: Patrick O’Donovan’s attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (255+ words) Unsurprisingly, the National Union of Journalists called O’Donovan’s remarks “sinister and deeply disturbing”. Following criticism and a meeting with the regulator, he backtracked. There will be no review. While O’Donovan’s comments deserve condemnation, they also raise questions about media freedom…...