THE New York Times’ dramatic 8,500-word story about the April 20, 2010, oil rig explosion off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, which killed 11 people and led to the worst spill in US history, is being made into a movie.

AT the opening of the Cleraun media conference in Dublin last Saturday, Communications Minister Noel Dempsey was forceful in criticising The Irish Times for breaking the story about the money given to Bertie Ahern.