Independent News & Media has told the High Court the State’s corporate watchdog unfairly criticised its response to his concerns about sharing of company information between Leslie Buckley, when he was chairman of INM, and its major shareholder Denis O’Brien.

Any untoward breach of a citizen’s data is worrying but if the targets are journalists then it’s not just personal rights but a basic cog of democracy at stake, says Michael Clifford.

Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley and a non-executive director will step down from its board, as a major overhaul at the top of the media firm continues, writes Eamon Quinn.

INM chief executive Robert Pitt did not back a vote to re-elect chairman Leslie Buckley at the company’s highly charged AGM.