#Newspapers
# newspapers - Tuesday 1 October, 2013
The Bank Guarantee on the front pages
Take yourself back five years.
# newspapers - Wednesday 25 September, 2013
Why Rio Ferdinand's creation of football's answer to the Oscars is a bad idea
If you thought the Premier League’s obsession with self-regard had come to an end, think again.
# newspapers - Tuesday 24 September, 2013
Why are people refusing to read the Daily Mail today?
#dontreadthedailymail has been trending on Twitter.
# newspapers - Thursday 22 August, 2013
Irish Times takes 9 per cent hit as newspaper sales tumble
Figures show almost one in eight copies of the Irish Independent is not actively purchased, as paper sales fall across the board.
# newspapers - Sunday 11 August, 2013
Walsh on false sex assault story: "It was like print and be damned"
The pop impresario said that he still reads newspapers – but he wonders if what is in them is true.
# newspapers - Sunday 23 June, 2013
23 glorious items from local newspapers
Community reporting at its finest.
# newspapers - Thursday 20 June, 2013
Group buys Sunday Business Post for €750,000
Former Daily Star chief executive and capital firm Key Capital plan to invest €1.2 million in the ailing newspaper.
# newspapers - Tuesday 18 June, 2013
Sun reporter, prison officer charged in British bribery probe
Journalist Nick Parker faces three counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct over alleged payments to a prison officer and police officer.
# newspapers - Thursday 6 June, 2013
25 newspaper and magazine blunders that are unintentionally hilarious
Glorious, glorious mistakes.
# newspapers - Friday 31 May, 2013
New broadcasting charge won’t be used to save ailing newspapers Exclusive
Pat Rabbitte says the replacement for the TV licence needs to ensure minimal standards for RTÉ, and can’t save other media.
# newspapers - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Column: I'm a pro-choice TD and I’ve never pretended to be anything else
Labour TD Anne Ferris says a Sunday Independent article ‘revealing’ her beliefs about abortion is irrelevant because she has gone on public record expressing her pro-choice beliefs.
Labour TD says newspaper 'sting' job on abortion beliefs was intended to mislead
A Sunday newspaper published transcripts from taped conversations between Anne Ferris and another Labour TD regarding their views on abortion legislation – but Ferris says the supposed ‘sting’ adds nothing new to her public position on the matter.
# newspapers - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
Column: Decisions in the family courts will be open to scrutiny now the veil has been lifted
Until now, family court proceedings have been heard ‘in camera’ but new legislation will bring more transparency – and more confidence – to the system, writes solicitor Emma Heron.
# newspapers - Monday 8 April, 2013
Loved and loathed: UK newspapers highlight Thatcher divide (Updated)
In its subhead, the Daily Mirror asks: “So should she really be given a ceremonial funeral like Princess Diana?”
# newspapers - Sunday 31 March, 2013
Myanmar prepares for new era of uncensored daily newspapers
Burmese law will change from tomorrow – ending a regime where only state-run papers were allowed to issue daily editions.
# newspapers - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Interim examiner appointed to 'Sunday Business Post' newspaper
Mick McAteer of Grant Thornton is tasked with finding a viable business plan for the paper, which employs 76 people.
Examiner to be appointed to Sunday Business Post
The newspaper will apply to the courts for examinership later today.
# newspapers - Monday 25 February, 2013
NY Times to rebrand Herald Tribune in its own image
The 125-year-old offshoot of the defunct New York Herald Tribune will be rechristened sometime this fall as the ‘International New York Times’.
# newspapers - Thursday 21 February, 2013
Newspapers record falls in circulation in second half of 2012
Every national title recorded a drop in its average circulation, though some fared better than others.
# newspapers - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Front Pages: South Africa's papers report Pistorius case
As there are no trial juries in South Africa, papers are not fearful of prejudicing proceedings.
# newspapers - Monday 28 January, 2013
Retail sales fell slightly in December - CSO
The volume of retail sales fell by 0.1 per cent in December but figures show an increase when motor trades are excluded.
# newspapers - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
Here's how the world reacted to the Kerry drink-driving story
The story of how Kerry County Council voted for a plan to allow rural drivers to have ‘two or three drinks’ has made a lot of headlines today. Here’s just a sample.
# newspapers - Saturday 12 January, 2013
This is the week's news... skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Tinfoil hats to protect against interweb; abortion floodgates ‘like Guinness at The Gathering’; James Reilly a mystery to the Troika.
# newspapers - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Column: Ireland’s relationship with Britain has moved on. Let’s not fall back
We should be over our outrage at petty jibes by now, writes John Verling. Both countries have grown up.
# newspapers - Sunday 6 January, 2013
This is the week's news... skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Employed people get the Pat Kenny jitters; newspapers to save the interweb; Irish people want to be Swiss.
# newspapers - Saturday 5 January, 2013
The Evening Fix... now with added signs your childhood is over (sorry)
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
Oireachtas to question newspapers over 'paying for linking'
Labour TD Seán Kenny is asking the National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) to appear before an Oireachtas committee to explain its stance on linking.
# newspapers - Friday 4 January, 2013
NNI: No objection to newspaper content "being used for personal use"
Statement from National Newspapers of Ireland does reiterate stance that “display and transmission of links does constitute an infringement of copyright” unless for personal use.
Column: Newspapers are seeking to outlaw the free exchange of ideas
Solicitor Simon McGarr writes on Women’s Aid, NNI and newspaper linking – an issue you can read about pretty much everywhere, except for in a newspaper.
# newspapers - Friday 21 December, 2012
Irish Independent scraps broadsheet edition
From now on, the Irish Independent newspaper will be available in compact format only.
# newspapers - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Budget 2013: How today's front pages reacted
From respite care to maternity benefit to PRSI, today’s newspapers saw Budget 2013 as a broad hit on many groups in society.
# newspapers - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
Column: Could Leveson affect press freedom in Ireland?
Leveson’s recommendations on data protection have been largely overlooked – but could have serious implications even here, writes Seamus Dooley.
# newspapers - Saturday 17 November, 2012
What media could you not do without?
A university experiment put students on a 48-hour “fast” from all types of media.
# newspapers - Thursday 15 November, 2012
Indian government expresses 'concern' over Savita's death
A spokesman in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the Indian embassy in Dublin is “following the matter closely”.
Savita tragedy continues to attract international attention
“Ireland Murders Pregnant Indian Dentist.”
# newspapers - Tuesday 23 October, 2012
Changes announced at the Irish Daily Mail
Editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers Ireland Eric Bailey will step down in January next year.
# newspapers - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Brazilian newspapers opt out of Google News service
The national newspaper association – which accounts for 90 per cent of circulation – says the service reduces traffic.
# newspapers - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
Editor of Irish Sun to leave amid 'significant changes'
Mick McNiffe, who has edited the paper since 2005, will be replaced – for now – by an assistant editor from the British edition.
# newspapers - Saturday 29 September, 2012
Irish Times records pre-tax losses despite increase in turnover
Accounts for The Irish Times Ltd also show a significant increase in the pensions deficit at the newspaper publisher.