Do you call a Minister for State "Minister"? Yes, you do. Seeing as the programme is a bit informal, perhaps after the first time we might drop the "Minister" and call her "Nuala "? Well. Would you call Michael Noonan "Michael" or Garret: FitzGerald "Garret"? No. So.
VINNIE DOYLE TURNS UP AT the office every day around three, browses through the British dailies, and for the next two hours manageement burdens him with its problems and the union with theirs. He hears from features on what they have lined up, and from advertising telling him how many pages he has that night. But his working day proper does not start till the five p.m. news conference and only gets into gear around six, when he takes' himself up to the second floor and the subs room.
On 24 June a full-page article on the Ranks dispute appeared in the Irish Independent. The article was called "The Breaking of Ranks" and was advertised prominently on the front page. Inside it was claimed that Independent journalists Michael Brophy and PJ Cunningham had gone "behind the scenes to catalogue the lead-up to the fall of the Ranks empire in Ireland".
A Profile of Tim Pat Coogan by Risteard O Muirithille
Any discussion of the recent Amendment campaign in the media should perhaps begin by acknowledging that it represents something of an achievement that the debate is being conducted in the media in the first place.
On Tuesday November 2 The Late Late Show team had its first meeting of the week. Three items were pencilled in for Saturday's show. There was to be a 40-minute report and discussion on car theft. The show was to open with Anna Raeburn. A human interest story about a Scottish woman was to follow her. The Late Late Show team talked about the morality of putting car thieves on the programme. There were no problems with the schedule until the following day. The following day the Scottish story fell through: the woman was indisposed. A replacement was needed.
BY THE time this edition of Magill is likely to get into most readers hands, the announcement of the launch of yet another Irish newspaper will probably be made. Hugh McLaughlin, the man who made and broke Creation, the man who co-made the Sunday World and who made and almost broke The Sunday Tribune is the man who will make the Daily News, a-new morning paper.
When RTE moved into the field of large-scale historical drama productions they could hardly have picked a better subject than Strumpet City. A good move. The drama of the 1913 Lockout, the character of Larkin, the care with which the characters of the original novel had been used to bring out the historical story - and the fact that the novel's own success meant a ready-made audience - made Strumpet City an ideal foundation.
The Sunday Tribune has lost well over £lm. since it started publiication in November 1980 and it needs a further £lm. at least to continue in existence from next September onnwards. But its publisher, Hugh McLauughlin is confident not alone that he can raise sufficient cash for the Sunnday paper but that he can raise a few, million more for a daily paper to begin publication in the autumn.
It was the eleventh day of the case and Sammy Smyth was wearing his eleventh clean white shirt. Sammy, and the Sunday World for which he writes had been accused by Michael Deighan of assault and libel. After three-and-a-half-hours, the jury had returned and everyone, including thirteen members of the Sunday World staff, was waiting for the verdict. The jurors, seven men and five women, looked tired and a little bored, Seamus McKenna SC for the defence was playing nervously with his glasses and a few people were still trying to squeeze into the packed courtroom.