In the third of our interviews on the media I talked to Dr. Heinz Brandenburg of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, about political bias in the Irish media, how parties manage the media or fail to, and how the media covers politics in general.
Background
Dr. Heinz Brandenburg has written […]

In the second of our interviews with independent commentators on the Irish media, I asked Simon McGarr and Fergal Crehan of the Tuppenceworth blog and fellow blogger Copernicus of Midnight Court about their Paper Round project. The exercise was to dedicate a weekend to reading Ireland’s newspapers in order to sift their contents and see […]

As part of a series of interviews on the Irish media by independent commentators, I asked Chekov Feeney, who writes on the Irish media for Village magazine, about the newly formed Press Council, the forthcoming changes to the Defamation Act, 1961, and whether this would have any impact on how the Irish media behaves.
The setting […]