Meejit surveys the by-election coverage in which some constituencies were suddenly  became part of Dublin.

Irish media outlets have nothing to congratulate themselves about when it comes to coverage of immigration and asylum issues.

Five Catholic Worker peace activists went on trial before a packed courtroom in Dublin this week for damaging a US warplane in Shannon in February 2003. Harry Browne reports

It's terribly frustrating the way the mainstream Irish media often refuse to pick up on stories in more obscure publications that may not share their top-class journalistic values. Publications like Newsweek, for example.

What with a national newspaper columnist shouting a dirty word at children, one hopes the previous media-related fuss, about intrusions into celebrities' private lives, will retreat into some sensible perspective.

Journalist: Harry Browne'
The 'bastard son of a renegade priest'

To enjoy the sites of most tourist meccas, patience, time or insider knowledge are the main requirements. Unless it's January in Venice writes Harry Browne

Hysteria surrounding the Northern Bank robbery and Brad and Jen's divorce.

Meejit takes a look at the media coverage on the Asian Tsunami.

Meejit looks ahead to 2005 when public broadcasting will be in the frame and Iraq will be a big story again.