Both Labour and Fianna Fáil puppets to their masters.

An editorial charter is on the cards for Independent News and Media. Michael Clifford looks at where this leaves freedom of the press

IF there’s anyone with an ounce of gumption living in Munster they should already be organising the importation of crate-loads of Stetsons and cowboys boots.

The Irish immigrants who settled in Syracuse, New York’s Tipperary Hill and named it after the county they’d left behind were a notoriously sentimental crowd.

For the first time in almost 40 years a member of the O’Reilly clan is not at the helm of Independent News and Media (INM).

A new plan for the 20,000 tonnes-plus of Irish farm plastic recycled per year was the topic of the controversial meeting between Environment Minister Phil Hogan and Michael Lowry, TD — which took place six days after the Moriarty Report branded Mr Lowry as corrupt.

THE sale of Swiss electronics company Landis+Gyr to giant Japanese group Toshiba for $2.3 billion (€1.6bn) could net Tony O’Reilly and his son Cameron as much as €224 million.

TELECOM billionaire Denis O’Brien will try to unseat the chairman of Independent News & Media at a showdown general meeting of the company’s shareholders on November 3.

AS Independent News & Media (INM) draws closer to a debt-for-equity deal to stabilise its financial woes, the group chief executive Gavin O’Reilly has accused his shareholding nemesis Denis O’Brien of flip-flopping his position with regard to the group’s lifeline.

IT is strongly believed that any refinancing deal achieved by Independent News & Media (INM), regarding its unpaid €200m bond, will end up with the O’Reilly family effectively retaining control over the publishing group.

IT’S war – the phoney peace has ended – Denis O’Brien has the O’Reillys in his sights and this time there will be blood on the floor.

DENIS O’BRIEN has hit back at Independent News & Media’s (INM’s) planned sale of its South African outdoor advertising subsidiary, by calling for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to block the move and make further changes to the INM board.

NEWS that Tony O’Reilly is to quit as chief executive of Independent News & Media resulted in a sharp rise in the share price yesterday, which was up over 66%, having been up by as much as 90% in early trading.

JOE O’REILLY talked about leaving his wife Rachel in the months before she was murdered, a witness told the Central Criminal Court.

AN unholy row has broken out over the erection of a huge headstone in Kilmallock cemetery by a Traveller family.