Monthly Archives: June 2012

Eddie Gallagher writes:

Heading to Poland Tuesday thought I’d share the pic of our house in Toronto. Not seen in the pic is the 3 small Croatian, Italian and Spanish flags in the window from which the England flag is hanging. To say our roommate pushed his luck with them is an understatement.

 

Tricolour Overload to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

Tom Fitzgerald (above with his daughter Kate at the Irish American President Obama Inauguration ball in Washington DC in January, 2009) writes:

Dear Broadsheet readers,

Thank you so much for the support you have shown over the past months during the controversy surrounding Kate’s death. I’ve been very impressed by the intelligent, and thoughtful tone of the discussion.  

Unfortunately, this is very far from over.

As you can understand, I’m not in a position to discuss the Garda investigation.  However, I would like to spark a wider discussion on the role of the Press Ombudsman.

I have limited legal training, but a lot of writing experience. I cannot find a legal or logical reason as to why the Press Ombudsman threw out 7 of the 8 items in our complaint, because they allegedly fell outside of his time limit of 90 days.  

He [press ombudsman] claimed that he would have to refer back to the September article by Kate, and that this article was outside the time limit.

First, we made no complaint about the September article. The total complaint (text here) was about the December 3 apology to The Communications Clinic..

Second, the September article was still on the IT website up until November 27.

Third, the September article was modified on the website on the 28th of November, which I believe brought it back into the mix as a newly published article and thus back into the 90 day time-frame.

I understand from reading some of the input that there are a number of people on Broadsheet with legal expertise. Can you please provide some feedback on the validity, or lack thereof, of throwing out 7 or the 8 elements of our complaint to the Press Ombudsman.

The Irish Times behaviour on this has caused great pain to our family, as it publicly dishonoured Kate’s memory and cast a deep shadow on her last words . 

To this day, Kevin O’Sullivan (Irish Times editor) has refused to tell us what was “not factual” in Kate’s article.

In fact, after discovering the identity of one of the key sources of the Irish Times’ information (that stated Kate had no problems working at The Communications Clinic), we provided the IT with absolute proof, that this same source had  stated the opposite in a formal statement.

The Press Ombudsman was also made aware of this.

Thank you,

Tom Fitzgerald

Bantry, Cork. June 11.

Like the Broadsheet massive before the hate set in.

Back Row, from left: Conor Boyle, Kevin Fagan, Ronan Hutchinson, Danny Murray, Mark Commins, Brian O’Reilly. Front Row, from left: Ronan McCabe, Alice Hodgson, Niamh Kirk, Paul Hyland, Neil McCann. Not pictured: Eanan Lynch.

The team who put together. ‘Seamus’.

Paul Hyland, editor, writes:

‘Seamus’ was created by the MA in Journalism class of 2012 from Independent College Dublin. Your readers might enjoy it * fingers crossed *

 

Read the first issue here.

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And, in related news…

Raymond Dolin may need to change the title of his upcoming memoir.Dolin, 39, is hitchhiking across the United States to gather material for his book, “The Kindness of America.”But on Saturday night, the West Virginia man was shot by a random passerby on the side of a highway, the Billings Gazette reports. Dolin was waiting for a ride a couple of miles outside of Glasgow, Montana around 6 pm. That’s when, he says, a man driving a maroon pickup truck pulled up and shot him in the arm before speeding away.

Raymond Dolin, Hitchhiker Writing ‘The Kindness Of America,’ Allegedly Shot By Charles Danielson (HuffPo Crime)

(Hat tip: @columc)