The Sunday Independent is a populist Sunday newspaper published by Independent News & amp; Media plc, under the control of Denis O'Brien.
This is a Sunday edition of the Irish Independent , and maintains an editorial position among magazines and tabloids.
The Sunday Independent is available on the Irish Newspaper Archives website until 2004, you will only find the "Black-and-White" microfilm page but since 2005 the online Sunday Star pages are colorful.
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History
The Sunday Independent was first published in 1905 as a Sunday edition of the Irish Independent . After the creation of the Irish Free State, the Sunday Independent followed its daily political line by supporting Cumann na naaaalal and his successor Fine Gael.
From 1940 to 1970, this paper was run by Hector Legge (1901-1994). Legge's time in the paper was famous for Sunday Independent in 1948 leaking news that the Irish government would abandon the British Commonwealth by invalidating the External Relations Law. Legge also published a series of articles by author Frank O'Connor (under the pseudonym "Ben Mayo") in the paper.
In the 1970s, under the editor of Conor O'Brien, Sunday Independent became famous for a series of investigations by journalist Joe MacAnthony into the Irish Sweepstakes event.
O'Brien succeeded as an editor in 1976 by Michael Hand. Aengus Fanning became editor after Hand's departure in 1984.
Anne Harris replaces her husband Aengus Fanning after her death in January 2012.
On December 20, 2014, Harris ended his tenure as editor of the Sunday Independent ; at her farewell party, the Independent News and Media marketing department gave her a "30%" figure to commemorate the fact that Harris had upgraded the newspaper to 30% of the Irish market.
Cormac Bourke, a former executive editor of Irish Independent , became the new editor of Sunday Independent in January 2015.
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Content
The newspaper is a general Sunday newspaper, which includes news and politics. It is published in five sections: News, Sports, Business, Property, and Life, as well as the magazine section. In terms of news, while newspapers maintain a broad view, it has been heavily criticized lately because of its emphasis on lifestyle features in the main part. It has also been criticized for being regularly inclined toward sensationalism, and for the focus of articles that focus on opinions rather than focusing on news. It may be better described as a middle-of-the-way newspaper than a newspaper. In the 1980s and 1990s, Deputy Editor was Anne Harris.
The Sunday Independent has been one of Ireland's most controversial publications; an article in the Magill magazine about the newspaper states, "His critics have characterized him as evil and narcissistic, his supporters alive and libidinous, the fresh wind in the industry is shrinking and shrinking."
Noted because of his strong support for Fianna FÃÆ'¡il, and especially Bertie Ahern and the last of Brian Lenihan, usually contains articles focusing on his party and policy, often at the expense of other political groups in the state. Former Defense Minister Willie O'Dea wrote a weekly column for newspapers. Former Bertie Ahern partner Celia Larkin also began writing as a columnist for newspapers after the closure of her beauty salon business.
Popularly nicknamed The Sindo , the paper has been a passionate critic of IRA Temporary and Sinn FÃÆ'Â © for many years. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Sunday Independent denounced SDLP politician John Hume, who was accused by newspapers for lack of attention to the needs of the Ulster Unionists. Many of the Sunday Independent's columnists also criticized Hume for negotiating with Sinn FÃÆ'Â © at leader Gerry Adams, accusing Hume of being naive about Adams.
Editorial
The Editorial Policy of the Sunday Independent can be described as support for Laissez-faire policies in economics and strong opposition to armed republicism; some people describe newspaper policy as a policy of the New Rights. It is very supportive of the Progressive Democrats and supports the reduction of income tax and the rolling of the country. Major issues often include large government, public sector measures, terrorism, and more recently, the Republican regime of stamp duty on newly acquired properties. It usually features articles by Alan Ruddock, Jody Corcoran, Brendan O'Connor, Anne Harris, Deputy Editor Willie Kealy and, more recently, economist Marc Coleman. Before his death, former editor Aengus Fanning also contributed the material here. The Sunday Independent is quite hostile to the Irish Labor Party and its social democratic policy; in the early 1990s, the newspaper elected Labor Party politicians Mary Robinson (then serving as Irish President), Dick Spring and Michael D. Higgins for harsh criticism. The Sunday Independent also took a negative tone to the rival media channel RTÃÆ' â € ° and Irish Times , objecting to alleged leftist and pro-nationalist biases in these organizations.
The Sunday Independent Editorial strongly opposed Martin McGuinness's campaign to become President of Ireland in 2011, claiming IRU McGuinness's past made it unsuitable for the role: " Those who contemplate the vote for... Guuinness should ask whether , in the context of murders committed by the IRA on our security forces, they are ready to force our soldiers and troops to salute President McGuinness with an equally heavy heart. ".
Circulation
Controversy
Newspapers have been the source of much controversy over the years:
Bishop Casey controversy
In 1993, the Sunday Independent advertised what was claimed to be an "exclusive world" interview with Bishop Eamon Casey after he escaped from Ireland after his affair with Annie Murphy. But it was later revealed that Casey refused to talk to the Sunday Independent and the "interview" was actually a recording of Casey's phone talking to a friend. The Sunday Independent then apologized for the incident, stating " We are not satisfied that the bishop is being interviewed in the normal sense of the word ".
The Keane Edge
The Keane Edge is a gossip column written by Terry Keane, a fashion journalist and former wife of former Irish court chief Ronan Keane. It is often the subject of successful slanderous acts by people who are angry with the charges in them. In it there are often clues to relationships with prominent political figures, mentioned in the column as Sweetie . In 1999, it was revealed by Keane on RTÃÆ' â € ° One program, The Late Late Show , that the figure was a former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey. Keane gave the story as exclusive to compete with The Sunday Times newspaper, while still employed by Independent News and Media. He suddenly left the newspaper (amid many accusations) and his column continued as Not The Keane Edge , immediately renamed The Double Edge .
Mary Ellen Synon controversy
Mary Ellen Synon, a columnist with newspapers, caused much controversy when she attacked the Paralympic Games as "evil", in an article October 22, 2000. This became the subject of public debate and caused columnist critics in Oireachtas (Irish Parliament). Initially, the editor, Aengus Fanning, defended the columnist, but eventually he issued an apology, after which the health council threatened to withdraw advertising from the newspaper. Synon has not written for newspapers ever since, despite being denied that he has been dismissed from the newspaper.
Team 03
Team 03 (then 04) was a group of young female reporters who appeared in the Sunday Independent during 2003 and early 2004. The articles, originally appeared in the Living supplement but were soon promoted to the main part, consisting of various team members who write low quality articles are usually very poor on the general subject. But they are usually accompanied by large group color photos from teams that are minimal poses and sometimes bare-chested. Finally the feature was dropped, but not before the team made a television appearance at RTÃÆ' â € ° One show Open House . They are sometimes shown as fantasy characters for Ross O'Carroll's fictional character Kelly.
Death of Liam Lawlor
On October 22, 2005, controversial Irish politician Liam Lawlor was killed in a road traffic accident in Khimki district in Moscow at an early hour Saturday morning. The driver was also killed in the accident, and a female passenger in the back seat of the car was slightly injured. The October 23rd edition of October Independent published a story on its front page, written by CiarÃÆ'¡n Byrne, Jody Corcoran and Nick Paton Walsh, claiming that Lawlor's car had traveled "from the red light district" of Moscow and police claimed that female passengers were a teenage girl who, according to police, "might be a prostitute". A report later on Sunday revealed that female passengers are actually a 32-year-old Ukrainian citizen who works in Prague as a secretary and legal interpreter and who has been working in that role for Lawlor before during a previous business trip to Russia. Because the furor over the accuracy of the article continues on Sunday, the article disappears from the front page of the newspaper website (though it can still be accessed by specifying its URL), and a copy of the PDF from the front page of the newspaper (usually available on the website) is also deleted.
On Monday 24 October, the managing director of Independent Newspapers, Michael Denieffe, confessed in an interview on Radio 1 RT1 lunch program, News at One , that the report was "inaccurate" and apologized to the family Lawlor for the trouble caused. The original article which at this point has disappeared from the website completely, and the front page PDF copy has reappeared on the website with the offending article being lost. Later that afternoon, Aengus Fanning's editor, Aengus Fanning, also apologized to Lawlor's family and said he was "fully responsible" for inaccurate reports. There was a great rage about the report during the day, with calls made on the phone radio program to boycott the newspaper except editors and others responsible for the report to resign or be fired.
On Tuesday October 25, The Observer, whose Moscow correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has been one of those backed up in the original story, issued a statement confessing that there was a "serious inconsistency" in the article. has published (also claims that the woman is a prostitute), apologizes for the inconvenience caused, and removes the article from his website. In addition, Paton Walsh stated that he "had no hands" in compiling the article Sunday Independent . Paton Walsh said that an "editor" on Sunday Independent had contacted him on Saturday seeking help to confirm reports that Lawlor had died. Paton Walsh said he had spoken with an official police spokesman and only conveyed the content of three conversations with this same person to their news desk, saying that he had stressed that it was "only the possibility of the girl being a prostitute".
It was reported on Wednesday 26 October that the translator, Julia Kushnir, sought an apology from the papers that had published a false report that she was a prostitute, and that she would likely sue for damages if the newspaper did not comply.
The controversy sparked a debate about press standards in Ireland, with Labor Party Senator Kathleen O'Meara calling for the establishment of the Press Council to monitor standards in the print media. The then Justice Minister, Michael McDowell, stated that the printed media coverage of Lawlor's death was "highly offensive, cruel and lacking in foundations and facts", and the pollution was insufficient to handle such posthumous coverage. He said that legislation is being designed to form an appropriate complaints board of the press.
On June 10, 2006, Irish Times reported that Kushnir would sue the Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday < World , Irish Sunday Mirror , and Irish Independent over the false claim that she was a prostitute. On Nov. 6, 2007, four Irish newspapers agreed to pay Kushnir pollution damages of EUR500,000 before the defamation proceedings began in the High Court of Ireland and lawyers for four newspapers apologized in court for the violations. The Observer previous newspaper has completed its defamation action for around EUR100,000.
Sergeant Death. Tania Corcoran
The Sunday Independent sparked another furor in March 2007 when it featured a front page of deaths in the delivery of Guard Sergeant Tania Corcoran. A headline noted that Sergeant Corcoran was the wife of the ERU Guard who had fired a fatal shot in the siege of Abbeylara, irritating friends and relatives of the couple.
Pat Finucane Controversy
The newspaper was sued by family lawyer Pat Finucane's lawyer who was killed on charges that Finucane was a Temporary IRA member. Finucane is a lawyer who became famous for successfully challenging the British Government over several important human rights cases in the 1980s. He was shot fourteen times as he sat eating at a Belfast home with three children and his wife, who was wounded in the attack. The killer was a member of the Ulster Defense Association (UDA) and an informant named Ken Barrett. Stevens's report found that Pat Finucane had never been a member of the Temporary IRA and his death was the result of a conspiracy between UDA and Ulster members of the Ulster Kingdom. The newspaper was sued by Finucane relatives for comments made by their security correspondent, Jim Cusack, and more than a piece of opinion authored by Unionist writer Ruth Dudley Edwards who claimed that Finucane's "friends, friends, partners and partners" people. The paper was forced to print an apology to the Finucane family. The political magazine, The Phoenix , estimates that defamation actions cost Independent Week EUR500,000 in damages and legal fees
Supports Bertie Ahern
The newspaper strongly supported Bertie Ahern during the 2007 Irish election and continued to support him during his performance in the presence of the Mahon Tribunal. Columnist Eoghan Harris and Brendan O'Connor are very strong in supporting Ahern. In August 2007 Harris was appointed to Seanad ÃÆ' â € ° ireann by Ahern. At the same time as supporting Ahern, the newspaper was very critical of Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Some front-page articles, written by Jody Corcoran and Daniel McConnell, have accused him of mismanagement since the May 2007 election. According to a recent McConnell article, Cowen has refused repeatedly to handle Sunday's information requests..
Family Relationships
The Sunday Independent is important for many family relationships in publications.
Anne Harris, now editor of Sunday Independent , her daughter Constance Harris writes for the newspaper as a fashion writer. Anne Harris is an ex-wife of Eoghan Harris who is an opinion columnist for newspapers and she is a partner of the previous Sunday Independent editor, the late Aengus Fanning whose son Dion Fanning also wrote for the newspaper as a sports writer who covered soccer. One of Fanning's other sons, Evan also writes for newspapers while his niece, Brendan Fanning is a rugby correspondent.
Shane Ross is a former Business Editor of the Sunday Independent , he was replaced by his son-in-law Nick Webb. Ironically, Ross has often been a critic of nepotism, cronyism and low performance in Irish companies, especially the Smurfit family's influence in Smurfit Group despite the status of the family as a minority shareholder.
Despite being a public company, the parent company Independent News and Media works as CEO of Gavin O'Reilly whose father is the largest shareholder and Chairman Tony O'Reilly. Gavin O'Reilly was ousted as CEO after INM shares collapsed and Denis O'Brien became the largest shareholder.
support INM plc and Denis O'Brien
Independent groups are often accused of supporting the business interests of the O'Reilly family and especially the parent group of INM plc. Shane Ross, business editor and columnist, has especially repeatedly praised the performance of Independent News and Media and its biggest shareholder Tony O'Reilly and refrained from commenting on the subsequent collapse in INM share prices and debt restructuring. Denis O'Brien is often the subject of critical comments, especially when his business activities conflict with the O'Reilly family.
In 2001 the battle to control Eircom with its largest shareholder at the time, Tony O'Reilly, Sunday Independent, wrote about the necessity of selling to O'Brien, writes "The Employee Stock Option Option (ESOT) has made its position clear: it's better to die than Denis.If they stay on this line it would be almost impossible for him to secure the sound needed to catch Eircom.Locklock loom And what happens if Valentia then walks away, leaving Denis as the highest bidder? maybe Sir Anthony will not pay a ridiculous price for Eircom. "
In a 2002 article entitled "" tough questions for the INM board ", Tony O'Reilly was named the" knight noble "by Shane Ross, who reminded shareholders of historic stock-price performance and" good dividends "referring to the" well-publicized woes of the Irish Times "and refrained from commenting on the EUR400 million spent on The Belfast Telegraph.In 2006, he wrote passionately about" triggered success by a global strategy "and is referred respectfully to O'Reilly" the global nature of INM's earnings is its strength for sure? Tony O'Reilly has exploited the enviable prowess of targeting the right geographic area with tremendous anticipation of future trends. "
While Denis O'Brien often made the news, the Sunday Independent paid special attention to her when her business activities went against Independent News Media. Denis O'Brien considers the bias in the Independent Group's coverage and in a 2003 letter to Gavin O'Reilly writes "As far as I know, Independent News and Media has spent the past seven years trying to destroy my reputation, some of my business scope, as well as the personal, the Sunday Independent, the Irish Independent and Evening Herald have caused great injuries and damage. on my reputation, not to mention the emotional distress my wife, Catherine and my family have had, I highly doubt if you or your family survived a similar attack. "
After this O'Brien began to build a private stake in INM plc at great expense and in 2007 as O'Brien increased his criticism of O'Reilly's management Shane Ross labeled Denis O'Brien as a dissident shareholder and accused him of launching a "destabilizing strategy" critical report into corporate governance of INM. Ross also described the critics as "human henchmen" and praised share prices under O'Reilly, and looked forward to "a bright future" "Shareholders in independent newspapers have never been better.On Wednesday, stood at EUR3 0.66, close to a high.In recent years it has outperformed the Irish index.A dividend note is due to fall into the shareholder's mailbox. The results yield 3.5 percent.While the future looks bright, a dazzling past. a shareholder who invested EUR1,000 in Indo shares in 1973, when O'Reilly took over, will now have EUR580,000 "
In a 2008 commentary on INM plc, AGM Shane Ross referred to O'Brien as "an ordinary and pleasant man... from a strong middle class background" but a "small businessman" and "not a star," and flouted Malta- his. residency, though not only Chairman Tony O'Reilly, resident in the offshore tax haven (Bahamas), but 70% of CEO Gavin O'Reilly's salary is paid to an offshore Jersey entity. "Whatever the obvious source of personal hatred felt by the man from Malta for Sir Anthony O'Reilly, this weekend, let's show him gratitude, he gives us a clear choice to shareholders, instead we give him a verdict that does not ambiguous tones. " After Ross wrote the article, stock prices fell and the company was restructured, without pulling additional comments from Ross's column.
In 2009 in a phone call to Gavin O'Reilly, O'Brien, at that time 26% of INM shareholders, criticized O'Reilly's concern for the company and issued a series of ultimatums and threatened to call an extraordinary meeting if not implemented. O'Brien's criticism increased, culminating in O'Brien's threat to Mr. O'Reilly: "I will destroy you and your father and I will pursue everything."
Primary author
- Marc Coleman
- Liam Collins
- Jody Corcoran
- Aengus Fanning
- Eoghan Harris
- George Hook
- Carol Hunt
- Gene Kerrigan
- Daniel McConnell
- Brendan O'Connor
- Ronald Quinlan
- Shane Ross
- Nick Webb
References
Further reading
- Mark O'Brien and Kevin Rafter, (editor), Independent Newspapers: A History . Four Courts Press, 2012, ISBNÃ, 1846823609.
External links
- Official website
- Village magazine article on Sunday Independent .
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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