Politicians unite to attack press

DEMANDS for a press watchdog to rein-in “sensationalist reporting” intensified last night after the way Liam Lawlor’s death was covered in some newspapers provoked outrage.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern led criticism of the "race to the bottom" journalism surrounding the car crash which left the former Fianna Fáil TD dead in Moscow.

"While journalists have a job to do, things were written that should not have been," he said.