Media needs to change as old rules fail to keep up with different times

The media, in certain instances, need to accept that ‘both sidism’ is simply a broken concept when dealing with someone like Trump who will lie and spread false facts like soft butter, writes Alison O’Connor.

Imagine if Peter Casey’s doctors had told him after his recent stint in intensive care in a US hospital that it was simply too much of a risk for him to run for the Irish Presidency, and he had listened.

What a yawn fest the last few weeks would have been. Casey has been the gift that keeps on giving. First as the candidate, and in recent days, as the man who is going to shake up Fianna Fáil, and then the political establishment. Certainly he has no shortcomings when it comes to his ego.