Tipping the balance west
 A recent RTÉ news item on deaths in Iraq failed to report both sides of the story and just refelcted the US stance. An Irish media website, Mediabite, challenged them on it. By David Manning and Miriam Cotton.
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Bertie Ahern - The Tangled Web
The finances crisis from Bertie Ahern now threatens to destroy his career, even though this is not yet publicly appreciated. For evidence is emerging that he got far more money when he was Minister for Finance than so far has been disclosed unravels Bertie Ahern's yarn-spinning. By Vincent Browne
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Derry plant involved in arms work
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act suggest that the US arms company Raytheon has lied about what it is producing at its plant in Derry and that local Nationalist politicians knew this. By Eamon McCann
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A future for the Left
Norway and Italy's governments have shown that there is a place for a left alliance in European governments. Ireland's left could learn from them.
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Burma, Blogging and Creedon
 This column has never been all that enthusiastic about the impact, real or potential, of blogging. More often than not I'm the old fart who reckons it's like talking to oneself without the exciting frisson of insanity, and I have only occasionally seen blogs on political matters that don't end up replicating or at least relying upon the same old mainstream sources.
But while I could never get excited about, eg, the bloggers who brought down Dan Rather, the situation that exists, as I write in lat ...
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Columnists take on the world not reality
As the news-reporting function of newspapers has come under threat from online and broadcast media and revenue models have been called into question by the advent of freesheets, many people have argued that the role of the press will increasingly be to provide analysis of the complex myriad of events in the world, rather than simply reporting on them. In a world where news is increasingly a commodity that is given away, a focus on analysis allows the newspapers to “move up the value ...
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Mining for Internet Gold
With many of us spending entire days online, it is about time we started getting more out of it than mere information.
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Losses, changes, branching out
A round up of some of this month's media news – from the devaluation of Skype to a new college for Independnent Newspapers...
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Liam Toland Setanta Sport commentator
Media Q&A with Liam Toland, Rugby commentator with Setanta Sports, coach with Landsdowne Rugby Club in Dublin and Army Officer with the Defence Forces ...
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Dismal Desperate Dejected
 Ireland sent its most talented and best prepared team to Rugby World Cup 2007. The team fared worse than any previous Irish team in the competition and worse than all but a handful of teams at the tournament. How it went wrong, what is now needed and why Eddie O'Sullivan should be retained for now. By Brent Pope...
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Party's over for the PDs
Michael McDowell was largely but not entirely to blame for the Progressive Democrats' election debacle. Others contributed handsomely to the defeat and now there seems little point to the party's continuance By Adam Maguire...
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Life on Ceres
Leo Enright on a recently launched space mission to an Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter ...
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Eoin Ó'Broin talks to film director Michael Winterbottom about his cinema, politics and desire to tell good stories ...
A Catholic priest is on trial in Argentina accused of being involved in the deaths of seven people and 31 instances of torture. By Hiram Morgan...
An IQ crisis has migrated from RTÉ to the nation but nobody will notice. By Maggie Kenneally...
Cult director Tarantino fails to deliver in his new movie, Death Proof, but Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart pleases where he had previously disappointed. By Gavin Burke 