UL professor Stephen Kinsella to be appointed economics adviser to Taoiseach Simon Harris
Mr Kinsella will balance the role with his commitments to the University of Limerick, while taking a break from journalism
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Russia blocks access to The Irish Times and 80 other EU media outlets
Other Irish publications – as well as Spain’s El País, France’s Le Monde and Germany’s Der Spiegel – also hit with ban
Four in 10 people in Ireland ‘worn out by the amount of news there is these days’
News and information overload a ‘common complaint’, Reuters Institute digital news report finds, but more people now pay for news
Death of Nicholas Leonard, founder editor of Irish Times business section
He became Ireland’s first full-time business journalist when recruited in 1963 aged 23
Newspaper fined €111,000 over article which collapsed rape trial
Irish Independent sought discount in the penalty on grounds that it took legal advice before publication
Newspaper’s reporting leads to collapse of rape trial
Judge says ‘Irish Independent’ juxtaposed comment on rape trials with facts from trial
Newspaper coverage of the Rising
The coverage of the Rising in Irish newspapers was largelyshaped by their ideological positions on Irish nationalism
Journalist takes second unfair dismissal case
Initial ruling of €55,000 in Catherine Murphy case against Irish Independent set aside
Acerbic critic who flayed the illusions of the establishment
Eddie Holt: May 28th, 1955 - June 23rd, 2015
Postmasters union warned over breach of social welfare law
Department of Social Protection ‘concerned’ about IPU form requesting PPS numbers
INM announces Ed McCann as new group managing editor
Ed McCann to replace Michael Denieffe who is to retire
Former ‘Irish Independent’ journalist awarded €55,000 by tribunal
Catherine Murphy became anxious about job after refusing to produce more celebrity articles
The slow rehabilitation of William Martin Murphy
Murphy – often cast as the villain of the 1913 Lockout – is remembered more fondly in a Dublin golf club and his native west Cork
In this golden age, let’s not throw away our history
The new Junior Cert syllabus, mistakenly, is set to downgrade the study of our past
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