Who are your favourite journalists?

NUIG_FiannaFail

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

DidierMc

:eek:

Aidric

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

lol

not bakunin

Jesus Christ...


The job of a journalist isn't to act as a crappy PR mouthpiece for the government.

If you describe Browne as a troublemaker, you should read some Hunter S Thompson! I think you'd love him..

On topic, I like Robert Fisk, Fintan O'Toole, Browne, HST, Tom Wolfe....and George Orwell.

Sergeant

Eilis O'Hanlon
Diarmuid Doyle
Matt Cooper

I also enjoy A.A. Gill in the Sunday Times, and Charlie Brooker in the Guardian.

jdivision

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

Eh none of them are journalists, they're opinion columnists.

Plowman

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RayM

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

You left out Ian O'Doherty.

I like Fintan O'Toole, Frank McDonald, Vincent Browne, Lara Marlowe and Gene Kerrigan. Outside of Irish newspapers, I enjoy reading Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Christopher Hitchens (sometimes), Will Self, George Orwell and Hunter S. Thompson.

Gekko

Paul Mason
Larry Elliott
Robert Fisk
Nick Webb
Shane Ross
John Simpson
George Monbiot
Greg Palast
Peter Oborne
Anthony Barnett
John Pilger
Dearbhail McDonald
Aine Kerr

gaf1983

Pat Leahy
Dearbhail McDonald
Colm Keena
Fionnan Sheahan
Niamh Connolly

all come to mind.

Bob Z

Plowman wrote: »

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I think the op was being ironic

baltimore sun

all my favourite hacks are dead

lester bangs
hunter thompson

There aren't many good Irish journalist, probably because the days of proper objective journalists is gone

Gene Kerrigen is good but why on earth would any intelligent person buy that sunday rag that pays his cheque?

i cannot agree with any in the original post, i'd argue they are some of the worst in Irish newspapers

There's a fantastic book by John Pilger, a collection of his favourite whistle-blowing, investigative journalism articles, there was one or two Irish writers in it but for the life of me I cannot remember who....great book though, some truly brilliant article in it

Plowman

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gaf1983

baltimore sun wrote: »

There's a fantastic book by John Pilger, a collection of his favourite whistle-blowing, investigative journalism articles, there was one or two Irish writers in it but for the life of me I cannot remember who....great book though, some truly brilliant article in it

I bought that book, it was called Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs, never got round to reading it, then grabbed it to give to a friend as a birthday present cos I never got round to buying her one... kinda wish I had been more organised! Can't find any Irish names mentioned in the amazon blurb - can you remember what they were writing about? The North? Sex abuse scandals?

Galway Revolutionary Left

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

Badly representing there.

Elmo

Any of the Sunday Business Post Columnist.

Surprised to see an FF supporter listing Sindo columnists.

The rules of being a sindo columnist: -

1. In the First paragraph state why RTÉ and the Irish Times are bad
2. In the second paragraph if you have not stated that RTÉ or The Irish Times is bad then state it now
3. In the Third paragraph let it be known that the Daily Mail is a British news paper
4. Continue with a bunch of sarcastic remarks.

Sergeant

Elmo wrote: »

Surprised to see an FF supporter listing Sindo columnists.

Why? The paper has a massive FF slant, Eoghan Harris, Willie O'Dea, Brendan O'Connor. They did a hatchet job on FG before the last election.

Elmo

Sergeant wrote: »

Why? The paper has a massive FF slant, Eoghan Harris, Willie O'Dea, Brendan O'Connor. They did a hatchet job on FG before the last election.

Historically it isn't an FF newspaper.

destroyer

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

Mary Ellen Synon, Ruth Dudley Edwards and "impartial non-partisan" all in the same sentence? This is a level surely.

Sonnenblumen

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

By far the best journalists in Ireland are

Brendan O'Connor
Eilis O'Hanlon
Colm O'Rourke
Ruth Dudley-Edwards
Kevin Myers
Leo Varadkar
Mary Ellen Synon (sp)

These are the best visionaries as they set out what's needed in terms of public sector reform and offer an impartial non-partisan view of what's best for the economy

I hate trouble makers like Vincent Browne who have no solutions only criticism

What do you read ? No don't bother!::eek:

Spiritoftheseventies

Gene Kerrigan (Soapbox the stuff of legends)
Susan Breen (great coverage on the North)
Michael Clifford (good feature writing)

NUIG_FiannaFail

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

What do you read ? No don't bother!::eek:

The evening hearld usually and on Sundays the Sunday Independent

HalloweenJack

I'll get the obvious one out of the way...

Hunter S. Thompson. Legend, pure and simple.

Contemporary ones I like are Paddy Agnew, Miriam Lord and Tim Vickery. I've always enjoyed Garret Fitzgerald's pieces in IT too. I can't really think of any other ones that stand out for me.

Robert Christgau can be insightful in his music reviews but sometimes he's just a moan.

EDIT - I love the guys behind the Phoenix.

I can list the ones I don't like a lot quicker...

NUIG_FiannaFail

HalloweenJack wrote: »

I'll get the obvious one out of the way...

Hunter S. Thompson. Legend, pure and simple.

Contemporary ones I like are Paddy Agnew, Miriam Lord and Tim Vickery. I've always enjoyed Garret Fitzgerald's pieces in IT too. I can't really think of any other ones that stand out for me.

Robert Christgau can be insightful in his music reviews but sometimes he's just a moan.

EDIT - I love the guys behind the Phoenix.

I can list the ones I don't like a lot quicker...

Garret Fitzgerald would send an insomniac to sleep

Elmo

Shane Ross is probably the only Sunday Independent Columnist I like.

shotgun mike

Investigatively, Mark Bowden's stuff with the Philadelpia Inquirer was quite good. Irish wise for politics Pat Leahy is quite good, and I always found David McCullagh pretty decent. Finally, although he mightn't be a journalist in the strictest sense of the word, charlie brooker is pretty good at analysing the news...

not bakunin

Yeah, the Phoenix is usually a great read. I think they were the first to report on Anglo's financial woes, back in Dec 08 (could be wrong there).

I found the Irish Times' Mark Hennessy (London correspondant) to be quite good during the election coverage recently.

David Foster Wallace, now there was a journalist!

jdivision

Justine McCarthy
Mick Clifford
Sam Smyth (when he's bothered)
Matt Cooper (before he stopped reading the papers)
political guy in S Times Stephen something or other breaks stories as opposed to rehashing press releases like some of the other political guys mentioned elsewhere on this thread
Tom Lyons
Eamon Quinn
Maybe Harry McGee, he did some really good stuff in I Examiner, got lost in the mix in I Times but with Hennessy's departure could make a difference

Bob Z

jdivision wrote: »

Justine McCarthy
Mick Clifford
Sam Smyth (when he's bothered)
Matt Cooper (before he stopped reading the papers)
political guy in S Times Stephen something or other breaks stories as opposed to rehashing press releases like some of the other political guys mentioned elsewhere on this thread
Tom Lyons
Eamon Quinn
Maybe Harry McGee, he did some really good stuff in I Examiner, got lost in the mix in I Times but with Hennessy's departure could make a difference

Max Clifford?!?

RayM

NUIG_FiannaFail wrote: »

Garret Fitzgerald would send an insomniac to sleep

Admittedly, he does sometimes use long words. It must be quite difficult for a Fianna Fail supporter to concentrate on reading something which contains words of more than two syllables, rather than the hackneyed, glib sound bytes to which they're more accustomed.

cynder

I like paul williams.

Even have his books.

great2000

I like Jane Skinner

jdivision

Bob Z wrote: »

Max Clifford?!?

No, I'm literate. Mick Clifford

Bob Z

I think Paul foot was very good

supremenovice

Eilis O' Hanlon?
Dear Sweet Jesus :eek:
She wrote an article before about how Global Warming is a con and we should carry on as we are guzzling our way through fossil fuels cause it sure isnt harming the planet.
I couldnt believe what I was reading.
And I vaguely remember a damning piece on Wayne O Donoghue when he was released from prison.
It seems this woman loves being in the minority EVERY time.