Call for greater trust between State and media

TRANSPARENCY and trust proved the key themes at a conference yesterday which focused on the way forward for the island of Ireland.

Key speakers who addressed the Rotary Club International conference were Anthony Dinan, group managing director of the event’s main sponsors, Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH); Hugh Orde, PSNI chief constable and acclaimed BBC journalist Fergal Keane.

Mr Dinan told an audience of nearly 700 at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork that greater transparency in awarding licenses to media firms was needed. He also said there was a need for greater trust between the State and the media.