MPS is the Irish College Societies Awards Most Improved Society of 2009/10! The award marks a tremendous year for MPS, who have come on leaps and bounds since last year. DCUfm.com won best website, reflecting the tremendous work put into the site by its creator Steve Conlon. MPS’s Richard Geraghty, Denis McEvoy and Micheál Clesham praised MPS [...]
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February 17th, 2010
DCU journalism student wins major award.
By Kate Patterson A third year DCU journalism student, Stephen Mangan, has won the Hugh Cudlipp award for promising young journalists – beating out students from across Britain and Ireland. Mangan, who says he was “delighted to have won the award,” was awarded a £1,000 prize at the annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture in the London [...]
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Tags: Hugh Cudlipp Lecture, Irish Examiner, Stephen Mangan 
No Comments »February 11th, 2010
Desmond action over ‘Magill’ article settled.
A libel action by businessman Dermot Desmond over an article published in Magill magazine 12 years ago was settled at the High Court yesterday. Mr Desmond had sued Coliemore Publications Ltd, Vincent Browne, then editor of Magill, and journalist Ursula Halligan over a 1998 article. Under yesterday’s settlement, an apology was read which was also [...]
February 5th, 2010
Minister puts stay on appointments to broadcasting boards.
Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has put a stay on the appointment of candidates recommended by an Oireachtas committee to the boards of both RTÉ and the new Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) because of a legal difficulty that has emerged. In what has been portrayed as an “embarrassing cock-up” by the Opposition, Mr Ryan [...]
February 1st, 2010
Bird to return to the nest.
RTE reporter Charlie Bird is to return to Ireland less than two years into an expected four-year stint as Washington correspondent in the US. Formal discussions have already taken place between Mr Bird (60) and his RTE bosses about the switch, while the Washington correspondent will lift the lid on his miserable time in the [...]
January 31st, 2010
Inquiry after TV3 failed to meet terms of apology.
An inquiry was launched last week into TV3′s failure to read out the exact terms of an agreed apology about the operations of controversial quiz show Play TV, commissioned by TV3′s director of programming, Ben Frow. One angry viewer complained to the Broadcasting Authority after watching the show, when he noticed that TV3 had omitted [...]
