It fails every standard of journalism, from objective fact-seeking to any effort at fact-verification, to avoiding weaving political narratives through your work.
More of this? For five more years? With a new energy? No wonder voters are saying no thanks.
“I’m not part of the accepted establishment for the media.”
Concerns “consistently ignored”
It’s hard to write about Irish politics, these days, while hiding the utter contempt which it tends to inspire, at least in this writer.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Labour’s Education spokesman, has admitted that masks are “very detrimental” to children – while advocating for their continued use. We need a nationwide manhunt for “the plot,” which has quite evidently been lost. The bizarre comments were made during a Prime Time segment on RTÉ One this week, with Ó Ríordáin urging […]
Be warned, this is going to be a long article, because it’s an important article. If you’re looking for a breezy two minute read, this one ain’t going to be for you. We’ll still try to make it as quick as possible, though. There might be no more important question after all, in the context […]
It’s not especially pleasant to be in the news in general, but it’s more unpleasant than usual when you’re getting pummelled across the various newspapers for something that’s your own fault. So hands up, first of all: When I said on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme on March 2nd that “Éirígí” were “the people who murdered […]
Fair warning: What you are about to read is not objective journalism. Declan Ganley has been my friend, and my colleague, for thirteen years, give or take. When it comes to this subject, I have a conflict of interest, and it is very important to state that right here in paragraph one, so that you’re […]
“The people who are losing their jobs, the people who are losing their salaries, can’t pay their mortgages, now really someone has to talk for those people.”
A leading medical expert has criticised the reporting of rising cases as being used to ‘terrorise’ people with visions of hundreds of people now sick when that’s not the case. Consultant physician in Geriatric and Stroke medicine in Tallaght hospital, Professor Rónán Collins, told RTÉ’s Prime Time that “Cases are positive swab results. Many of […]
“You need not to get this disease, and you need to do that by keeping away from other people”. That was the expert medical advice given to the nation last night on RTE’s Primetime.