Took a court case to be able to tell this story - delighted that the judge’s decision allowed us to publish names of most respondents and basis of claims @MediahuisIRL@FPMcGoldrick@pciassembly
Eoin has been an outstanding editor of the Belfast Telegraph. He oversaw the move to a paywall and from zero built up 16,500 paying subscribers. Eoin believed in fairness, gave me extraordinary freedom to investigate and write, and defended wider journalistic principles in court.
90+5mins: 🇭🇺 2-3 🇮🇪
Ireland holds its breath, on the last throw of the dice... Hattrick for Parrott 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
📺 @rte2@rteplayer https://t.co/xaKTb2LBVG
📻 @rteradio1 https://t.co/PEszeaDYyf
📱Updates: https://t.co/TC5xt2IxRd
Reflects very poorly on the American players that they are happy to stand by and listen to their own crowd abusing their opponents (and friends) when they’re lining up shots. These scenes with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry do the #RyderCup no favours at all
The Belfast Telegraph & other media organisations have successfully resisted an attempt to impose drastic reporting restrictions to stop us reporting the trial of a prominent figure for alleged offences, including fraud, linked to the huge 2014 Nama deal.
https://t.co/WCs0x9kHKd
Frosty and cold in the Curragh yesterday as the local yards trained their horses on the gallops, stay warm and safe over the next few days 🥶📷❄️ @HRIRacing@CarlowWeather@prophotomag
📰 The Irish Independent was first published 120 years ago today, on January 2nd, 1905. Here's what that day's front page looked like.
You can read the mission statement from that first ever edition here: https://t.co/QyrqnZwDPf
“There is no such person known to the law as the anonymous Judge”
Judges deserve respect and may also need protection.
But the #RuleofLaw demands open justice, and that includes (save, for a limited time, if there’s a clear and credible threat) the identity of the decision-maker.
Guardian reports: 'Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” & unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software' https://t.co/H11AvQmyCb
The @EditorsUK#MFA2024 Regional Media Organisation of the Year goes to @BelTel for having "shown grit, determination and resolve in battling legal obstacles to report stories that others fought to keep from the public"
A female Belfast schoolteacher has admitted grooming and having sex with a teenage boy before falsely accusing him of sexual assault to cover her tracks.
https://t.co/nmb5i3wnkt
"Look at the stars..." ✨
Today, we look up at the stars and remember the great James Earl Jones. As Mufasa, he reminded us that those stars will always be there to guide us.