I see that Eoghan Harris has been fired by the Sunday Indo. As the anonymous account of another well known media personality.
Cremeegg would like to say it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.
Harris tweeted:
“Moore thinks she is sniping safely from behind Derry hedges, but she’s actually sniping from an ROI hedge in the Examiner and her Sinn Féin backside is sticking up in the air.”
Moore tweeted that Harris had:
“sexualised messages about whether Mary Lou McDonald ‘turned me on’, the size of my ar$e and called me a terrorist from the month I started at the Examiner. "
Wolfie you will have to subscribe.
There was something distasteful in the editor having a completely free run on his side of that row.
Excellent summary though describing FF under Bertie as Neo-Liberal is beyond ridiculous.I decided to check out his Wiki page to remind myself of his irrelevance.
A member of Official SF in the 1970's that moved to Marxism at the very time that the national question would engulf politics once again.
When Official SF became sidelined it became the Workers Party, itself destined to extinction. He would abandon the Workers Party and Marxism in support of social democracy. The Democratic Left emerged and this party would eventually demise and be subsumed into the Labour party.
He worked with Mary McAleese in RTE and would deride her candidacy for President, only to regret his views about her.
He was a prominent critic of John Hume who would subsequently be honoured the Nobel Peace prize and is broadly considered one of Ireland's greatest statesmen and a prominent architect of the GFA which Harris would subsequently support.
An unrepentant supporter of the US 2003 invasion of Iraq. He derided the work of renowned journalist Robert Fisk.
With a total abandonment of his Marxist views he embraced full-on neo-liberal economics of the FF and PDs and remained a steadfast Bertie supporter right up to those economic policies would crash the economy.
Today, his weekly column reads as a bitter chip on both shoulders against SF.
He has taken the side of ditching the backstop and blaming Varadaker for the current impasse.
Going by his track record, I wouldn't put too much weight on his views.
And if my rumour mill is correct, the Independent.ie was taken over by new owners over the last couple of years?
Declining sales and an obvious momentum shift towards the prospect of Irish Unity has made Harris a boil to be lanced. The independent got their excuse and promptly dumped him.
I love sarcasm and will defend it against all accusations of being the lowest form of wit.The insidious nature of Harris attacks on other journalists in anonymous form, and it being tolerated at editorial level, has real potential to destroy its standing as a reputable news outlet.
Purple I advise you not to read FOT's piece. I feel so guilty after reading this tirade against the mortal sin of anonymity.I believe Fintan O'Toole has written on this in todays Irish Times. It will be good to get the definitive view on the subject from someone who is morally pure, like the Bishops used to be (but not the Pope, Mickey Dee is the only one at that level).
Well my real name is in fact Purple. I'm the love child of Barney the Dinosaur and Tinky-Winky.Purple I advise you not to read FOT's piece. I feel so guilty after reading this tirade against the mortal sin of anonymity.
He's another legal case to fight. That's probably keeping him busy.Well my real name is in fact Purple. I'm the love child of Barney the Dinosaur and Tinky-Winky.
I think the absence of sausage has something to do with some protocol or otherany news on Eoghan, not even a sausage out of him of late,