Late Late Show to have John Giligan as guest (The Gangster one)
Late Late Show host Tubridy silent over guest offer to Gilligan - Independent.ie 'The Late Late Show' is slated for inviting drug gang boss on programme to discuss legal battle. Host Ryan Tubridy...
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Justine McCarthy's sad bitter rant about the Rose of Tralee
Justine McCarthy: It’s time for RTÉ to pull the plug on the Rose of Tralee Making Thomas co-host is a desperate effort to extend the longevity of the antediluvian event www.irishtimes.com t springs...
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The bizarre and unusual ad thread
There are some freaky ads which appear in the ad boxes on politics.ie and elsewhere. They are a stream of ads of course but some of them are clearly from the US and can be inadvertently jarring...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch and "Plutocrat Populism"
Rupert Murdoch, Australian Media Magnate, will die eventually. He is 90 years of age, and has had a long and active career. It cannot be an exaggeration to say that, in the 21st century, Murdoch has...
View ArticleBono wants to help US vice President find his Irish roots !!!!
Isn't it great to see the great and the good coming to Ireland's rescue and of course Dr Sir O'Reilly's toilet papers highlighting their efforts in such a good cause :lol: Or is more like brass neck...
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Dispatches C4 "Career-Ending" Programme to Air Tonight
There have been rumours circling about revelations in an episode of Dispatches due to air on C4 this evening. The subject has been kept secret from schedulers, but it has been reported elsewhere that...
View ArticleRIP Sir Jimmy Saville
RIP Sir Jimmy Savile Tweets appearing that Jimmy Savile, O.B.E., K.C.S.G has died. RIP Jimmy and let the frenzy begin. Sky News
View ArticleIs the Web Summit fiasco symptomatic of an inability to think straight by...
Web Summit bosses urged Govt 'to engage' - RTÉ News First off, the above makes for seriously depressing reading. After all the country's been through since the days when property developers, bankers...
View ArticlePoetry and Politics.
Prompted by the mention of Derek Mahon in a thread last night I was thinking about the influence of politics on poetry (or indeed the influence of poetry on politics). With the likes Seamus Heaney in...
View ArticleGB News launches 13th Jun
A breath of fresh air? , start 13th Jun. Technology-wise its like releasing a new design of stream train in the 1950's and it seems to be made up of a lot of talking heads from Sky and other UK media...
View ArticleRewarding Use of the Media.
Thanks to having read just about every Preface and Play etc., by George Bernard Shaw, I have learnt a lot about self promotion. But there may be others here that know more? My use of the notes Maureen...
View ArticleRTÉ finances - is it time to call it a day?
IT reports this morning that RTÉ is facing a financial crisis. Among the more interesting gems it provides is that in 2016 it had 1,987 employees, whereas at end 2018 this was 1,822 - a reduction of...
View ArticleInstitute of Strategic Dialogue on Irish social media
The essence was in the opening paragraphs of the Irish Times report: Researchers from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD) analysed 13 million posts from 1,640 accounts over the past three years...
View ArticleDCU study: 61% of Irish journalists Left of Centre, 8.5% conservative.
A majority of Irish journalists (61.5%) identify themselves as 'left-leaning' compared to 8.5% who identify as 'right-leaning', according to a new study by the School of Communications at DCU. Does...
View ArticleGript media - a valid news source? John McGuirk gets a grilling.
Listen to the interview, with sources and transcript here.
View ArticleTV Licence ?
I understand that there's a global pandemic.. but all im getting through the door are reminders about a tv licence... is there anyway to object to this tax... ?? I pay for sky broadband ...every other...
View ArticleElon Musk & Twitter: Hero or Villain?
Just broke about half an hour ago. looking to buy the whole stock for $54.2 a share.
View ArticleOnline abuse of Mary Lou McDonald and others
Hi there is a lot of publicity about online and off abuse of women. There has been plenty of abuse thrown at Ms McDonald. She is leader of S.F and also a prominent politician. She is regularily called-...
View ArticlePaddy Cosgrave gets cancelled
Paddy Cosgrave resigns as Web Summit chief with ‘immediate effect’ over Israel-Hamas comments Given how toxic he now is presumably Cosgrave will also have to sell his 81% share in the business if Web...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Twitter has always been a ‘sewer’, says Varadkar
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have rounded on Elon Musk’s X social media site, with Leo Varadkar labelling the online platform formerly known as Twitter as a “sewer”, amid mounting concern that it is...
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