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 [...]