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.
29 February 2008
Extract from address by Professor John Horgan, Press Ombudsman, at the opening of the Kate O’Brien Weekend, Limerick. Friday, 29 February 2008
06 February 2008
Extract from remarks by Professor John Horgan, Press Ombudsman, at a debate organized by the Law Society and the Journalism Society, University College, Cork, Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 8 pm.
09 January 2008
Address by Minister Lenihan at Official Launch of PCI
09 January 2008
The inaugural Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman were today formally launched in the presence of the Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan TD, and representatives of the Irish print media industry. The launch marks the beginning of a new era of press regulation in Ireland, with all citizens now having access to a new system for handling press complaints.
09 January 2008
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this special occasion to mark the commencement during the past week of the full operation of the Press Council and Office of Press Ombudsman.
20 October 2007
I am grateful to the NUJ for affording me this opportunity to address you. It is entirely coincidental that one of the major controversies of the past few weeks has been about the media and about coverage by the media of criminal proceedings
14 August 2007
The newly-established Press Council of Ireland has announced that Professor John Horgan, a prominent author and academic whose background is in journalism and politics, has been appointed as Ireland’s inaugural Press Ombudsman.
04 July 2007
Newly-established group combines “talent, diversity, achievement, standing and experience”
26 January 2007
Professor Thomas Mitchell, former Provost of Trinity College Dublin and one of the country’s leading academics, has been appointed Chairman of the inaugural Press Council of Ireland.