The DPP is appealing a High Court finding that former Evening Herald editor Gerry O’Regan and journalist Anne-Marie Walsh were not in contempt of court.
The move could possibly end in the jailing of Walsh and the now Irish Independent editor O’Regan and fines for Independent News & Media.
MORE: DPP bids to jail editor, reporter for contempt
You’d expect a good deal of Dublin news on the Evening Herald’s recently launched website. But very little city news little can be seen on the homepage at Hearld.ie.
When Blurred Keys tried the site today, the first viewable screen without scrolling down hadn't a single Dublin story.
The Irish Times reported yesterday that the Irish Health and Safety Authority and gardai have told Dublin newspaper publishers to stop distributing at road junctions in the city.
Freesheets Metro and Herald AM as well as the Evening Herald are affected.
Last June the Evening Herald featured a story which announced that people moving between stopped traffic could be a hazard.
That story was referring to window screen washers, but it now seams the HSA think newspaper sellers and distributes are also in danger, while the police are also concerned at any possible affect on traffic movement.
Whether it’s Evening Herald on-the-road newspaper seller (as pictured above) or distributors of freesheets Herald AM, and Metro, newspaper distributors are a common sight on Dublin roads, on traffic islands, or between cars, trucks, and buses.
Apparently the Evening Herald yesterday featured alarming news that people on roads and moving even between stopped traffic could be a hazard. The story focused on people selling the service of windscreen washing, but don’t newspaper sellers and distributors cause at least similar hazards?
Independent News & Media is apparently Sir Tony O’Reilly's cash cow…
O’Reilly alone took €110m in payments from Independent Newspapers since 2000, while jobs are being cut and outsourced to make way for even more largesse - Village.ie
An over due update to our post in early February - Independent News & Media are now trying to outsource Dublin sub-editing and layout jobs to RE&D.
Sub-editing staff at IN&M are apparently reluctance to move to the new company, according to the Sunday Business Post who quotes a source saying the people who move will be paid ‘‘above-market rates’’ (but less then IN&M pays them now).
The same newspaper says that RE&D was set up by two former IN&M employees and is based at Hanover Quay in the south Dublin Docklands.
NUJ members "expressed serious concern", and the Irish Times also quoted (paid sub reqd) NUJ Irish secretary "Séamus Mr Dooley" saying "We are looking for more specific information about what is on offer and we will be looking for agreement in principle for NUJ recognition in any new operation".
Meanwhile, Roy Greenslade is reporting how IN&M are pushing the same outsourcing at their New Zealand arm APN News & Media. And, with help from Adam Maguire, Greenslade is also talking about the Irish story.
UPDATE: Read more on this at pressgazette.co.uk
The fact that the Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has the gardaí investigating the media instead of the godfather of crime does not instil confidence.
- Stephen Raehe, Editor of the Evening Herald
(Apologies for
the delay in publishing this post)
Blurred Keys is an Irish blog about print, broadcast, and online media, in ‘the State’ and afar, it’s edited by Cian Ginty
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