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'I will destroy you and your father and I will go after everything'

Sunday September 06 2009

ON A Thursday evening in late August, during a surprise call from Denis O'Brien in Ibiza, the battle lines were drawn for an almighty contest for control of Ireland's biggest media group.

Disability portrayal report released

Thursday July 23 2009

IRELAND's most comprehensive work on broadcasting and the disabled is winging its way to TV and radio bosses this week, as an early step on the long road to a voluntary code on disability portrayal.

Expect more reality TV shows like 'The Apprentice' as the budgets
of media companies come under sustained pressure in the
economic downturn

Independent producers feel pinch as TV bosses cut budgets to bone

Thursday June 11 2009

THE survival of the nation's broadcasters has taken centre-stage in the great TV bloodbath, but the fate of Ireland's independent TV producers hangs just as perilously.

RTE radio launches stations on digital platform

Thursday April 16 2009

FOUR new RTE radio stations are now available to more than 85pc of the population, after the national broadcaster inked a deal to get the channels onto NTL and Chorus' digital platforms.

Nice try! . . . botulism . . . equality . . . straight talk

Monday December 15 2008

- Does it not strike one as very strange that a mysterious disaster in the pork industry is averted by the European Food Safety Authority? Gratitude will be expected at the new referendum? Come off it. Nice try, though. We may be Irish but we are not green.

Veritas ad a victim of aggressive political correctness

Sunday December 14 2008

THE decision by the Broadcasting Commission not to permit the Veritas company to advertise its Christmas wares on radio is being described as rampant secularism (or what the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, a daily Massgoer and communicant, calls "aggressive secularism").

Commission ban insults religion

Saturday December 06 2008

I PROTEST, in the strongest possible terms, the high-handed behaviour of the Broadcasting Commission in presuming to ban the Christmas advertisement of Veritas.

Airline should look to Ryanair

Saturday December 06 2008

This April, I started commuting between London and Dublin, and wishing to support an Irish institution, I flew Aer Lingus.

Dublin gets its own 'you' tube

Thursday July 10 2008

IF you've ever fancied running your own TV station that dream could come a little closer next week with the launch of Ireland's first "democratically run" TV channel.

Business in brief: Tullow manager retires from firm

Tuesday April 01 2008

TULLOW Oil has announced that one of its key executives, Matthew O'Donoghue (63), yesterday retired as general manager projects, and from the board of Tullow.