Media

O'Reilly's newest title is bringing British tabloid values to South Africa, reports Emma Browne

RTE's contradictory reporting on the French election left viewers confused.

Prime Time's Leas Cross story showed that it is practically impossible to legally suppress big news, but is the manner in which stories are gained based in any ethical structure? By Conor Brady

By the time you read this column I will be sunning myself on a Mediterranean island with my thoughts a billion light years away from the vagaries of Irish political life and social policy. I have done more than stick firmly to my 2005 resolution to implement a new work/life balance, I have excelled at it. I may even consider giving training workshops on the subject, but then again that would be too much like work and might tip the delicate but beautiful pivot between career and carousing I have created for myself.

With a grim inevitability the statistics on road fatalities are rising again this year. After a brief honeymoon period ushered in by the penalty points system we have reverted to our appalling driving habits, our rudeness and our total disregard for all other road users.

Getting up early these mornings now that the builders are in. Have to take refuge in TV3's Ireland AM for company. Hangover television and if you haven't one, they make you feel as if you do. On Monday morning they were advertising a holiday competition and the question was: Killarney is based in which Irish county? Don't you just love it? Like Killarney was a movable feast of a multinational and the Kerry people might wake up one morning and it would be gone, lakes, Muckross and all, to Indonesia.

The latest accounts from the Sunday Tribune show greater losses than ever before and no indication that things will get better anytime soon. Colin Murphy reports

As the BBC is crippled by a journalist's strike Meejit ponders news without the journalists.

The bunch of tantrum-throwing, ill-behaved, incorrigible, squabbling, bad-mouthed, dysfunctional brats we elected to government are an international embarrassment and a national disgrace. It is obvious that our ability to call them to account is wholly inadequate.

I met former US President Bill Clinton on Tuesday 24 May to talk about the peace process and the efforts to rebuild it following the elections. He was in Dublin to attend a fundraiser in aid of suicide awareness. His visit focused welcome attention on this issue.