25 March 2009
The function of an Ombudsman is, I am sure, well enough understood in the Ireland of today for it not to
require anything substantial by way of explanation here.
15 March 2009
There is a growing realization of the signifi cance, and seeming intractability, of suicide as a social problem in the Ireland of today.
25 February 2009
Extract from remarks by the Press Ombudsman, Professor John Horgan, Journalism Society, University College, Cork. Thursday 19 February 2009 at 11 am.
25 January 2009
The title “Current Issues in Journalism” carries certain implications. Are there issues in journalism today
that were not issues yesterday and willl not be issues tomorrow?
03 December 2008
The office of coroner is one of great antiquity while the court of the coroner is the oldest in the British and Irish Isles. Some historians indicate that the office was established with that of sheriff so as “to keep the peace when the Earls gave up wardship of the County” in the twelfth century.
03 December 2008
Address by Dave O’Connell, Group Editor of the Connacht Tribune, at the Press Council’s conference
on media coverage of suicide in Portlaoise on December 3rd 2008
03 December 2008
“Some plan for discounting by common consent the detailed dramatic tales of suicide, murder and bloodshed in the newspapers is well worth the attention of their editors. No fact is better established in science than that suicide (and murder may perhaps be added) is often committed from imitation”
03 December 2008
The role of newspaper coverage in cases of suicide was highlighted at a meeting in Portlaoise on [Wednesday 3rd December] sponsored by the Press Council of Ireland, and which heard contributions from journalists, experts on suicide, and the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for mental health, Mr. John Molony TD.
30 September 2008
Extract from address by Professor John Horgan, Press Ombudsman at the launch of “Memoir” by Tim Pat Coogan. The Writers’ Museum, Dublin, Tuesday 30 September 2008
17 April 2008
I suspect that most of you, like me, have heard those or similar comments trotted out ad nauseam on various radio chat shows and in conversations here and there.