Press reports since the Wayne O'Donoghue sentencing have been characterised by contradictory, intrusive and libellous claims about O'Donoghue, and have repeatedly relied on unnamed Garda sources to advance claims that he was a sex abuser. Colin Murphy reports
Despite what some bleating lawyers will tell you, when Majella Holohan took the stand in Ennis last week, she did the state and our legal system a favour. By overstepping what she was supposed to say and asking a series of unanswered questions about the killing of her son, Majella Holohan has at last forced debate on the direction sentencing is taking for serious criminal crime.
We should have known the guy was not really a bad-boy, tattooed "It's time to throw down" brawler when he had to bring his mom on the Larry King show to protect him.
'Open access encyclopaedia' Wikipedia's libelling of John Seigenthaler juxtaposes the right to freedom of speech with the individual's right to a good name. As libelling on the internet increases, internet providers are advised to edit before they publish. By Conor Brady
There has been a remarkable silence this past week from those normally so vocal concerning the sensitivities of Travellers.
Donald Mahoney previews the inaugural Temple Bar Trad Festival, and wonders if it will help to improve the area's 'identity crisis', moving it one step closer to the cultural quarter it wants to be
Dermot Bolger stays up late into the night to see what the current RTÉ schedule has to offer
Welcome to Ryan's world – a world which is self absorbed, a place where the main occupant likes listen...
The media ignored Iran whilst they went into overdrive about Naom Chomsky.
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