Yearly Archives: 2014

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The early edition of the Sunday Independent on July 20, 2014 (top) and Stephen Rae, group editor of INM  (above)

Further to SindoGate…

The order to stop the presses was made by Stephen Rae, the group editor of INM’s titles, after he was informed by a senior journalist about the contents of the column written by Anne Harris, the newspaper’s editor.
The decision to change Harris’s copy against her wishes led to a heated discussion in the newsroom shortly after 7pm last Saturday, according to sources in the newspaper. Explaining why the presses had been stopped, Campbell Spray, the newspaper’s executive editor of operations, told colleagues Rae was his “ultimate boss”.

Mark Tighe, Sunday Times (behind paywall),

Irish newspaper editor’s column was changed after going to press (Roy Greenslade, Guardian)

Previously: Uncompromising

Denis O’Brien’s Editorial Interference: The Smoking Gun?

Meanwhile…

Bewildered Student writes:

“Where the hell is the NUJ [National Union of Journalists]?”

Anyone?

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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“sup?

“Dive-bombing seagulls have turned a London street into “something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds”, say residents.”
“They told how the flock had settled on the rooftops of homes and offices, attacking elderly people, children — and anyone wearing red.”

“The gull droppings are so corrosive they can eat through paintwork on buildings and cars, while the birds have also ripped open plastic bin bags and targeted recycling containers, scattering the contents up and down the street as they scavenge for food.”

We’re not alone.

‘It’s like a scene from The Birds’: Vicious dive-bombing seagulls which attack children are plaguing north London residents (London Evening Standard)

Previously: Mean Gulls

Pic: Alex Lentati

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Former Fianna Fail TD, junior minister, deputy whip, Senator, etc. jailed for using false invoices to claim mobile phone expenses.

Ivor Callely jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming expenses (RTE)

Ivor Callelly?

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This morning.

Outside the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland, Clonskeagh, Dublin

CMc writes;

“Today’s the first day of Eid ul-Fitr and Eid prayer (the feast day which marks the end of Ramadan). As an atheist I’m glad Allah (and God outside every church of a Sunday morning) allows inconsiderate-arsehole-parking…”

FIGHT!

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Scenes from Saturday’s march for Gaza from the Spire, O’Connell Street to the Israeli Embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

A crowd estimated at 2,500 people, including Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald and Joan Collins TD (pic 4)  and Clare Daly TD (above)  took part in the protest.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Alternatively…