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There’s something nice about the New Zealand outlets – at least they’ll put it on page three … I just don’t want to see that guy’s face anymore, on the front page of the paper.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXNOLK3U4BDGJMCYRHZVK7QOLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054444},"content":"The sense of Trump being “inescapable” in the US is “like watching a car crash over and over and over”, he said. It’s an appropriately visual simile for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hollywood/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood power player </a>to deploy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFA3NKVBXRHODLTVUOJ4IDIQC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054445},"content":"The current crisis, by contrast, has to date been fed by words. There’s the inevitable body-language analysis here, a pointed ceremonial photograph there, but it is still advanced and explained by mostly verbal means. This is, on one level, a relief. But it can make the stakes harder to fully absorb.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5OTUEESYBHUPOFER3IOP5YTBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054446},"content":"Before Trump and petulant sidekick <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/\" target=\"_blank\">vice-president JD Vance </a>ganged up on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy </a>in the Oval Office, I’d been struck by the strangeness of watching developments of such huge and unsettling seriousness unfold without the dramatic imagery to match.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SI4MUH43HRFD7N7V6PEK4OELRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741090567475},"content":"US-Ukraine ties in tatters as their leaders argue in the White House","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"EM74ZEDHPJHHVBW7XVYEQOWIZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054447},"content":"Neither of what were, previously, the two biggest geopolitical news events of my lifetime – the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 – lacked for potent, symbolic imagery. Quite the opposite. Both were accompanied by abruptly available video footage from which it was impossible to avert your eyes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2GEBRTBLSNH5XOAWB4IRBRX2EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054448},"content":"The visuals told the story of what was happening in that place and time, but they also clearly captured and represented something of greater meaning: the collapse of an ideology and the devastating announcement of one, respectively. The “no going back” feel was writ large.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBCKRYNGUBGHDDKANI7UQRX4PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741090567478},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-96168","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BBU6JTL4GRCURDL4PIA5SQM52U","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054449},"content":"Trump’s astounding love-in with Putin seems on a par with these other historic, era-demarcating events. Chilling statements such as “the US is now the enemy of the west”, the headline on a column in the Financial Times by Martin Wolf, certainly imply so. A Kremlin spokesman observing on state television that US foreign policy now “largely coincides” with Russia’s vision does the same.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTRJS4XOZ5GUJLMHVYHH3BMUQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054450},"content":"But although missile strikes on Ukraine continue, as far as television is concerned, this once unthinkable shift in the postwar world order is notable for playing out in blandly ornate rooms, sterile institutional spaces and reproductions of unlikely social-media posts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWJWPQUYEVFBDJAILYQVSH6NOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054451},"content":"It does this in a manner that is surreally ignorable by many. Not everyone needs to move countries to swerve newspaper front pages. Not everyone recognises a car crash when they see one. Most people remain thoroughly unengaged by UN resolution votes, no matter how eye-popping they are to those with even the vaguest inkling of how they usually go.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FTQTUBKOBEORLGC3TOKIF5KPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054452},"content":"About 10 days ago, Alex Younger, a former head of British foreign intelligence service MI6, gravely told the BBC’s Newsnight he believed we were now in a new era “where by and large international relations aren’t going to be determined by rules and multilateral institutions, they’re going to be determined by strong men and deals”. He couldn’t see a reversal anytime soon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N736GAYB65DYFMJC3Y3PACHQHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054453},"content":"It didn’t feel like any old piece of sofa-bound punditry, but one of those “is everyone else listening to this?” pieces of current-affairs television that elicit utter dread. And yet deeply sombre episodes of Newsnight do not exactly guarantee that widespread attention is being paid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTWR3YGG75HVXB3MGC46GRJZBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054454},"content":"This past decade has been marked by a worrying gap developing between information “haves” and “have-nots”. Interest in news has waned and news avoidance has risen across the 17 markets, including Ireland, tracked by the Oxford-based Reuters Institute since 2015. In the US, Trump-opposers started to switch off from news during his first term because of the negative effect he had on their mood, while right-wingers became increasingly convinced that everything they didn’t like was fake news. A year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war headed the list of topics that Irish news consumers reported dodging.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSIIHPGTBBB4TAY7YJLH6DSQGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054455},"content":"Last Friday was a messy watershed. Judging solely from the number of passengers on my bus who were playing clips out loud on their phones, Trump and Vance’s snarling pincer movement on the ground-holding Zelenskiy had instant cut-through. The circulating memes soon confirmed it – in one AI-generated fantasy, the Ukrainian president is depicted landing a knockout blow on Trump. This fireside chat unlike all other fireside chats was front-page news even in Cameron’s beloved New Zealand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3768378f-a470-42a0-bae9-a163876a1287","additional_properties":{"_id":1741090567486},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"S25MXJTXRJF4ZGY45OZEWPILZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054456},"content":"And yet although it was “a spectacle to horrify the world”, as the Daily Mail splashed, it was also still a chamber piece by genre – an unreal clash of blinkered playground bullying and formal, high-powered setting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGTG5AVACJEEFOMCLPIVOPI7VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054457},"content":"It might seem crass or shallow to discuss it in these theatrical terms, but it’s also dismally relevant to the psychology of Trump. He has to star in his own show. This raises the spectre that he will now attempt to repeat the formula each time someone ventures into his lair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUASL2MM6NCQTE4VGU35OVBI6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054458},"content":"“This is gonna be great television, I will say that,” an angry but energised Trump declared after the dialogue ceased. He couldn’t have been more on brand. All you could do was hope he was referring to the shouty exchanges just passed and not the outbreak of the third World War he accused Zelenskiy of gambling with, in an apparent moment of projection.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Watching the US president is like ‘watching a car crash over and over and over’, says director James Cameron. And yet much of the current security crisis had, until Friday, been weirdly ignorable for other reasons"},"display_date":"2025-03-04T06:05:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Moving to New Zealand may not be enough to avoid Donald Trump ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KD4G3QRLCJD3JFR7RRQ2AJ2ZZI","auth":{"1":"6291807ff4973a544f68f6ca98dcba1b6fc5c9a72842a07d231dec841c9f45a7"},"focal_point":{"x":745,"y":405},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KD4G3QRLCJD3JFR7RRQ2AJ2ZZI.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"XQSBAAD2SA2PAN6UWEA2S7K2VA","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/03/04/moving-to-new-zealand-may-not-be-enough-to-avoid-donald-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"NJN2WUODIVCVLC7YOQ6YZAMBVU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":253,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4d4c95bd-83b5-4049-9559-fe9b43a03ac6/versions/1740907606/media/8dc5878056898fd787aa61df4cf8e1bc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/03/02/message-from-the-editor-a-diplomatic-disaster-in-the-white-house-widens-the-atlantic-fissure/","content_elements":[{"_id":"KC6OIQJDPVFZPBHENS45CWHM6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The extraordinary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/28/trump-accuses-zelenskiy-of-lacking-gratitude-and-gambling-with-world-war-three/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/28/trump-accuses-zelenskiy-of-lacking-gratitude-and-gambling-with-world-war-three/\">public clash between the leaders of Ukraine and the United States</a> at the White House on Friday marks a diplomatic nadir in the history of Europe’s worst conflict since the second World War. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGW6BTKZFJF33MF2AURAWI4NDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"A meeting that was supposed to ease transatlantic tensions over Ukraine through the signing of a bilateral deal on mineral extraction instead descended into a shouting match between these nominal allies. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/\">US vice president JD Vance accused Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy of not thanking the US</a> for its support and of backing Trump’s Democratic opponents in last year’s election. Donald Trump expressed frustration with Kyiv’s reluctance to consider a ceasefire with Russia without first agreeing security guarantees with Washington. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEZFVJHM4RDW7PJ5UDQ4XBEJEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"As the spectacle played out in front of the television cameras, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US put her head in her hands. When the meeting ended, Trump reportedly asked Zelenskiy to leave. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NXOQBCC2XBFXVJETA27PZBYKDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"It could hardly have gone any worse. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ACFO65BMNBXVIU6MEYEWTC6JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"And yet the Oval Office meltdown only confirms what had already become clear: that under Trump’s leadership, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/in-showdown-with-zelenskiy-trump-takes-offence-on-putins-behalf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/in-showdown-with-zelenskiy-trump-takes-offence-on-putins-behalf/\">Washington’s public position on Ukraine has more or less aligned with that of Vladimir Putin</a>. A deep fissure has opened up between the US and its European allies, who even before Friday’s disaster were scrambling furiously to contain the damage incurred by the fraying of the transatlantic partnership. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QCNBCZXHRDIZO3GDBKOEAXRNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, the fate of millions of Ukrainians - and the future of Ukraine as an independent state - hangs in the balance. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZHOLV4TDNDMXIEHLXKQSE6NO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The crisis diplomacy will continue today, when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/02/ukraines-zelenskiy-and-european-leaders-to-meet-as-uk-signs-27bn-loan-with-kyiv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/02/ukraines-zelenskiy-and-european-leaders-to-meet-as-uk-signs-27bn-loan-with-kyiv/\">Zelenskiy will join fellow European leaders in London</a> for talks hosted by UK prime minister Keir Starmer. They are racing to formulate a common response to what many see as the end of the American security guarantee that has been in place since the end of the second World War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4K45E7RCS5AANJT3Z2TJRIMCZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Real negotiations on a cessation of hostilities still seem some way off, with scant information about who might be involved if and when those talks finally begin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JDZOMX7TABAABMYFPATSYOHXTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, the conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s Kursk region grinds remorselessly on, claiming ever more lives. Russia continues its aerial assault on civilian targets, with waves of drone and missile attacks on cities claiming more casualties and strikes on energy infrastructure continuing to deprive thousands of heat and light in the sub-zero temperatures of late winter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HFMTDEKINCR7IH6DKTZHKKFNU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Our Eastern Europe Correspondent Daniel McLaughlin <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/01/well-rest-when-we-win-no-let-up-for-ukraines-medics-and-rescue-teams-as-war-with-russia-grinds-on/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/01/well-rest-when-we-win-no-let-up-for-ukraines-medics-and-rescue-teams-as-war-with-russia-grinds-on/\">reports this weekend from Mechnikov hospital</a> in the city of Dnipro, the closest major medical centre to the main battlefield. The medical workers he talks to describe the dangers of rescuing wounded soldiers from the front line while armed Russian drones hover overhead in search of targets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POIYMLLLIZBRPIO3SCRPQMC7VM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We all know that this is our war, our country, that this is about defending our country ,” Oleksandr Tolubaiev, the hospital’s medical director, tells Daniel. “Of course, stress and fatigue have been extremely high for a long time, but there is no other way – we have to stand strong, endure and keep going until we win. And then we will rest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3KATHHNYBF4FPQ3EJLDILI2C4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRFNGU7OHJDQBBZGE5USUBHJKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Editor","type":"text"},{"_id":"UG6FMQ6NPVA7LBAGPDWNAUR3WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Five key reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"27XHZPK6WNGLNI6XKKLPBBKZ4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Guantánamo on steroids’: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/01/guantanamo-on-steroids-inside-a-prison-for-suspected-islamic-state-members-in-syria/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/01/guantanamo-on-steroids-inside-a-prison-for-suspected-islamic-state-members-in-syria/\">Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria</a>: Sally Hayden reports from Hasaka, northeast Syria where people suspected of being Islamic State members are detained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGEIZHCTINHNFMKHPW52INAUVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘He destroyed our world.’ <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/03/01/he-destroyed-our-world-questions-remain-for-danielle-mclaughlins-family-after-man-convicted-of-her-rape-and-murder/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/03/01/he-destroyed-our-world-questions-remain-for-danielle-mclaughlins-family-after-man-convicted-of-her-rape-and-murder/\">Danielle McLaughlin’s family on the murder of a ‘brilliant big sister’</a>: Kitty Holland speaks to the family of Donegal woman Danielle McLaughlin who was raped and murdered in India eight years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPBJILFGHBCLBM6LRNKO2ETGP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish property market is rigged <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/02/25/at-least-7-in-10-house-buyers-get-gifts-from-parents-often-six-figure-sums/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/02/25/at-least-7-in-10-house-buyers-get-gifts-from-parents-often-six-figure-sums/\">in favour of those who get parental gifts of up to €100,000</a>: Gifts or loans from the bank of mum and dad are pushing up property prices, writes Fiona Reddan","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3XEXQLVZFCURHMIDKB3TDOIFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Why childcare students <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2025/02/24/why-childcare-students-are-not-the-entering-childcare-profession/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2025/02/24/why-childcare-students-are-not-the-entering-childcare-profession/\">are walking away from childcare jobs</a>: Emmet Malone speaks to student disillusioned with their chosen career paths in childcare","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7E37PAFFFFXLFENYACVIYIZIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Overheard chat on the train <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/26/foot-soldiers-push-the-boundaries-for-germanys-afd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/26/foot-soldiers-push-the-boundaries-for-germanys-afd/\">showed me the secret behind far-right AfD’s growth in German</a>: Derek Scally reports from Germany on the rise of the AfD","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic"}},"name":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic"}]},"description":{"basic":"Oval Office meltdown showed that Trump’s administration has more or less aligned with that of Putin"},"display_date":"2025-03-02T09:21:35.847Z","headlines":{"basic":"Message from the Editor: a diplomatic disaster in the White House widens the atlantic fissure","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT 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€1.2 billion despite a decline in advertising sales and increased labour costs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JL7BAZUAMVBGRIOOHLUJOTBN64","additional_properties":{"_id":1740662096544},"content":"In a statement on Thursday, Mediahuis reported operating profits of €153 million for 2024, essentially unchanged from the year previous. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GJVKXVMVBAW5GTB624NUQXYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/22/zelenskiy-down-europeans-out-why-is-trump-playing-right-into-russias-hands-on-ukraine/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/22/zelenskiy-down-europeans-out-why-is-trump-playing-right-into-russias-hands-on-ukraine/\">Lara Marlowe writes this weekend</a>, Trump, via a 90-minute phone call, has aligned the US with Russian president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vladimir-putin/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vladimir-putin/\">Vladimir Putin</a> and betrayed Ukraine, a country so eager to join the West that it enshrined the twin goals of Nato and EU membership in its constitution. “It was to foil that ambition that Russia seized Crimea and much of the Donbas region in 2014 and launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"COHVFHQDZ5GLVJOZUVQTUXR5MY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She writes that the betrayal started with Trump’s defence secretary Pete Hegseth telling a meeting in Brussels that Ukraine will not be allowed to join Nato. 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Nor would the US send troops to prevent further Russian aggression.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WOFBTHSK4JBCFGSXHWC3LHNA5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"As Marlowe notes, in one fell swoop Hegseth had granted three of Putin’s main demands before ceasefire negotiations even started.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PM2EIULN6VFP7LAGTGCNA23JM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"When Ukrainian president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> said he would not accept an agreement concluded without Ukraine, Trump accused him of having started the war, a blatant lie.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KBH4YC2UYFH6RC3EMYAKBF5GOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"A second betrayal are the demands by Trump for $500 billion in “payback” for past US assistance. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Europe has allocated $138 billion to the Ukraine war effort; the US, $119 billion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDQDPF6775D2HFNG32LZSVWUTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump is not the first western leader to betray Ukraine. The US and Britain were guarantors of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine relinquished its nuclear weapons in exchange for promises of security. Neither budged when Russia seized Crimea. French and German leaders sought to placate Putin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOYTYV7BSREBHEUU23OAZ5EN6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“But no western failings in the 34-year history of independent Ukraine compare to Trump’s bullying. An agreement that would grant impunity for Russian war crimes, lift sanctions and dispense with reparations, recognise Russian sovereignty over occupied territory or leave Ukraine defenceless against further aggression would signify not peace, but surrender.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYLMZPDII5BKDIV7SELFCIIESY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Five good reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"HUVIJZW47ZFCNKOZGJLPO47E4I","type":"list"},{"_id":"ARXBJQEPTVH4ZNHYB7HSKK5Y2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"In this week’s On the Money newsletter, Joanne Hunt writes that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/02/21/slow-down-on-the-road-to-save-yourself-money/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/02/21/slow-down-on-the-road-to-save-yourself-money/\">the new lower speed limits on local roads</a> could save you money. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com//newsletters/on-the-money-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Sign up here</a> to receive this newsletter straight to your inbox every Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCCUEUV45BECTPYMZCQBSJJ42I","additional_properties":{},"content":"As always, there is much more on <a href=\"http://irishtimes.com/\">irishtimes.com</a>, including rundowns of all the latest movies in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/\">film reviews</a>, tips for the best restaurants in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/\">food section</a> and all the latest in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/\">sport</a> and extensive reaction and analysis of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2025/02/22/wales-18-ireland-27-irish-player-ratings-as-james-lowe-shows-his-quality/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2025/02/22/wales-18-ireland-27-irish-player-ratings-as-james-lowe-shows-his-quality/\">Ireland’s narrow win over Wales</a> in the Six Nations. 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Please feel free to send comments, feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@irishtimes.com\">feedback@irishtimes.com</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CFLOMJPHWRDY7JTNYEQSEVNBKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCACPBHUZ5BTVDRNON6Z6BN3WQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIRY2LPLGZDMFH6VMCISFJ6XJE","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARDARU67GJE6XCJ6HVO5RJUK3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQ7KKX26YNFOHDE5SJFCBL6HTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"The US has granted three of Vladimir Putin’s main demands before ceasefire talks even begin "},"display_date":"2025-02-23T07:38:17.799Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump’s bullying of Ukraine ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT Sunday"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"AJAT5WNNS34ZS4OO2U55KG2A3I","auth":{"1":"2b6a6ff640dc0094c94b847025684260322d719f885f5a4aa04401b9b9fb8e74"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/AJAT5WNNS34ZS4OO2U55KG2A3I.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/02/23/trumps-bullying-of-ukraine/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"PJR2U7HTD5EAXG625YAHGGQ2KY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":204,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/06f6f3aa-bd86-4fa2-8a3a-7eee0b36a5fd/versions/1739999860/media/b4efc97a8d6a0676ac617cf016d1b8f1_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/02/19/red-flag-global-founder-karl-brophy-anticipates-substantial-growth/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4MB5W24WFJAUHFYRHQLYBYJ7VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"EREH5UMD2NE3XFW34A4TTDBS6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Having sold his Dublin-based strategic communications group <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/red-flag/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/red-flag/\">Red Flag Global</a> to New York-based Ankura Consulting Group earlier this month for a reported €45 million, its founder <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/karl-brophy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/karl-brophy/\">Karl Brophy</a> is expecting substantial growth for the company in the next few years. 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[And] not many people want to use a PR guy who has clearly alienated the largest media group in the country.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQB6SOLSGBDKPGTCH66SXBQ7II","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-4759","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3WMUGREOVVH4FORFAVYAF7ASQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENIKB3LPFZAZLDDVAZHCEC2N3M","additional_properties":{},"content":"His first client was the Union of Students in Ireland. “Our job was to try to save the maintenance grant for students. We successfully saved the grant. I can’t remember what the fee for the job was but it wasn’t large. And we’ve just grown from there.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HZ5XGETW5C67PE5GFHI2YF2F4","additional_properties":{},"content":"While basing himself in Ireland, Mr Brophy’s ambitions were global, and Red Flag established offices in London, Brussels, Washington DC and Cape Town. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5POL4KQ5ZCGZN3YMTHZSJNKRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Red Flag Consulting sold with expected €33m payout to founder Karl Brophy","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"HXHCGCL7E5FUJCD7PITV77AW5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Winning a mandate with Google was the firm’s “big breakthrough” moment. “When we landed Google in Brussels for some of their big issues and campaigns, we knew we were on the map. They don’t hire idiots. They really wanted to work with us and we continue to work with them to this day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y24YSNMXDBFFFMRFX3AACA4ZGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Brophy is set to receive €33 million from the sale of Red Flag, although 40 per cent of that sum is contingent on earnouts over the next four years. He said the money would be invested for now and that he would probably take his family on a “fun” holiday. 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His aim was to persuade Liz and her siblings to think about how they might try to avoid the corporate chaos and public-relations panic depicted on the show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGS7LDZL35H7BHJJ3ISRK5ODCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739814220811},"content":"The memo-triggering episode, which made headlines and won Emmys, amped up the discombobulation of grief. Without any foreshadowing, Logan departs the stage off-screen on a private jet. Chest compressions continue, but neither viewers nor his children, stuck on a boat, can see what’s going on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKKVMNYMD5BMVLUM566AWJ5LDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739814220812},"content":"Via speakerphone, they swing between denial and the desire for a straight answer. The refusal of the ultra-rich to accept that there are some things in life they can’t control permeates their reaction. 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By killing off the tone-setting Logan, the show was offering a glimpse of a fraught future – a power vacuum of mixed emotion that Elisabeth Murdoch watched twice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5EB4TW6FRBJZJIY7UVLAHGMWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739814220815},"content":"But for the sheer volume of pathos, another piece published in recent days takes the prize: an in-depth, incendiary interview given by James Murdoch (52) and his wife Kathryn Hufschmid to the Atlantic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HQQKMN7RJFFDRAGZTJQJI2NWEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739814220816},"content":"Unlike his sister, former 21st century Fox chief executive James Murdoch doesn’t appear to have been an avid Succession watcher. “He’d tried the first episode, but found it too painful,” writes journalist McKay Coppins. 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As Jennifer Bray writes this weekend, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/02/15/housing-back-to-the-drawing-board-for-the-government-or-more-of-the-same/\" target=\"_blank\">only 30,030 homes were built last year, a long way short of the promised 40,000 </a>homes, which Government figures were promising in the lead up to the general election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JF54336ZZNCVFL7GCGL4AQQJAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714334},"content":"These figures put a frightener on the new Coalition, with Opposition parties accusing the Government of misleading the public with their promises that up to 40,000 homes would materialise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HMAM73KISRDENMUTEYUM44KAWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714335},"content":"In this context, new thinking is being sought. That may have been the reason the Taoiseach last week flagged possible changes to the rent pressure zones and also tax incentives to stimulate private sector investment in housing as ways to get more private investment flowing into construction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJ67NJQ25JEMDHUX4LZ7OGNEXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714336},"content":"The latter idea – whatever the economic rationale – has the capacity to be deeply uncomfortable for the Government, with Labour TD Ciaran Ahern quick to describe the plans as “Fianna Fáil’s Bertie-era tax cuts for developers”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YUOY4REI5CTRJYEMKUONHAPRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714337},"content":"An unintended consequence is that any talk of potential tax cuts – or, indeed, other proposals – could, in the short-term, create uncertainty in the housing market, prompting builders to hold off for a few months if there were a promise of goodies on the table in the next budget, Bray writes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJATNFDNLFCJ7K55CSG4LURSJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714338},"content":"She quotes one senior source as describing tax as the “last big lever that we have yet to pull. In the past, we had schemes that were terribly designed and resulted in houses being built in the wrong places”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBR6OBZN6RFILETO4EZDTCE2EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714339},"content":"The source said any future tax incentives would be more prescriptive and designed in such a way that the right kind of housing would be built in the right place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FYHETP4IYZGNREZDIOMREKI4ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714340},"content":"Behind this thinking is a growing realisation by the Government that the scale of the issue is simply beyond the resources of State.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLP3T4VXABDQXFQXD5SXLALBDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714341},"content":"The Taoiseach told the Dáil last week he believed a greater balance is needed between State and private sector investment and highlighted figures showing that €20 billion would be needed to get to a situation where 50,000 to 60,000 homes were built every year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T44YYVB4L5CDPLS4IHVDCVLZ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714342},"content":"To put this in context, the State has earmarked €6 billion for the housing budget.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BELVIAFNENC5VACA3KPUKAKA34","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714343},"content":"As Bray writes: “Financial measures to incentivise the private sector may be seen as politically unpalatable, but their consideration reveals the extent of the government’s frustration about action on that side, but also generally that enough is not being done.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2S4VRCWLVNFRLKWR6FKR36QE4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714344},"content":"<b>Five Key Reads</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"FPADIVCDKRBX7NV3DJCYGNPB3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714345},"content":"<b>1. </b><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/02/15/competitive-parenting-in-china-school-starts-at-730am-and-i-pick-him-up-at-930-in-the-evening-we-usually-arrive-home-around-10pm-then-he-studies-again/\" target=\"_blank\">Competitive parenting in China:</a> ‘School starts at 7.30am and I pick him up at 9.30 in the evening. We usually arrive home around 10pm. Then he studies again’. Denis Staunton reports on the fierce competition for places at top secondary schools which drives some parents to push their youngsters to succeed, believing they owe it to their children to give them the best start in life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKKZI6NHW5DDPGCOIDGWA4GC7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714346},"content":"<b>2. </b>Signals coming from Trumpland could <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/02/15/signals-coming-from-trumpland-could-hardly-be-worse-for-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">hardly be worse for Ireland and its economy, writes Cliff Taylor</a>. A key risk is that Donald Trump seeks to isolate Ireland as one of his first targets, because of the huge trade deficit the US has with this State.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDDZWILRU5BUTE2GGOIE5KQ5BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739696073834},"content":"<b>3. </b>In 2005, Storm Gudrun devastated Sweden. Around 250 million trees toppled like matchsticks, 18 lives were lost, and 700,000 people were left without electricity, many for 35 days. In the aftermath of Storm Éowyn, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2025/02/15/ella-mcsweeney-after-storm-eowyn-ireland-must-do-what-sweden-did-20-years-ago/\" target=\"_blank\">Ella McSweeney writes that Ireland must learn from the Swedes’ experience</a> and do what they did 20 years ago to mitigate against such devastation happening again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBX4WLSD7FEE5J3TY3TITJHDGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714348},"content":"<b>4. </b>‘After I got stabbed, I messed around for a year. I was angry’: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2025/02/15/stephen-bradley-after-i-got-stabbed-i-hated-football-hated-life-hated-everything-about-it-i-was-angry/\" target=\"_blank\">Malachy Clerkin speaks to Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley</a> about underachieving in his playing career, fixing broken people, and his 10-year-old son Josh’s battle with leukemia","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGI3ELGQ7BDPNJM6XMAUPS2VKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714349},"content":"<b>5. </b><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/02/15/the-fall-and-rise-of-orla-kiely-as-horrible-as-it-was-you-just-have-to-get-on-with-it-there-are-things-we-wont-do-again/\" target=\"_blank\">The fall and rise of Orla Kiely</a>: ‘As horrible as it was, you just have to get on with it. There are things we won’t do again’. The Irish designer of the world-famous Stem pattern tells Róisín Ingle that she is a strong believer in repeating things – except when it comes to the mistakes that seriously damaged her business in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOA33SGRFZGAJJVNLRT6NSB3SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739618714350},"content":"As always, there is much more on <a href=\"http://irishtimes.com/\">irishtimes.com</a>, including rundowns of all the latest movies in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/\">film reviews</a>, tips for the best restaurants in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/\">food section</a> and all the latest in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/\">sport</a>. There are plenty more articles exclusively available for Irish Times subscribers <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/subscriber-only/\">here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7GXOG2MYFBUNJTLN2AS2SXZBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739552969797},"content":"We value your views. Please feel free to send comments, feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@irishtimes.com\">feedback@irishtimes.com</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Housing proposals this week show growing realisation by Government that scale of issue is simply beyond State’s resources"},"display_date":"2025-02-16T09:10:48.641Z","headlines":{"basic":"New response to housing ‘permacrisis’ to be explored","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT Sunday"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7BJVKLB5RVB4NJJCMJO4OHZ4JU","auth":{"1":"a84bcdd0c7213217bbf10c6c2d626f914f56c8b17babe03cd85b3adfd249b6fd"},"focal_point":{"x":1024,"y":208},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7BJVKLB5RVB4NJJCMJO4OHZ4JU.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/02/16/new-response-to-housing-permacrisis-to-be-explored/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"7R6QSZ6LPNBL7KUJWME46MRAKI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":71,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/5fbd7338-feed-4e61-8ee1-7afe78176f83/versions/1739278344/media/ac255d1b2362a652405e4d09f7120c45_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/02/11/sunday-independent-editor-alan-english-steps-down/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JUL4JJBIERHADCVGZ6HN76QSAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525127},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sunday-independent/\">Sunday Independent</a> editor <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/alan-english/\">Alan English</a> has stepped down from his role, following a personal commitment to give himself five years at the helm of the title.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5ZDQ7OQNFEKTM37EVB7K4ZMGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525128},"content":"News of his unexpected departure reached staff at Mediahuis via email on Tuesday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVPZVMU64RELVGMMB6233L4OSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525129},"content":"Mr English said his decision was based on “personal reasons” and later clarified it was unrelated to health issues or anything behind the scenes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKLCPSLQDJEU7OLBQFAQE2E76Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525130},"content":"“I decided quite some time ago that I felt five years would be a good stint for me. I’ve been getting tremendous reaction from it, lots of supportive messages, a lot concern as well,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QR3BSPI7PRALTK7AXOVQKW5GZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525131},"content":"“This thing about me leaving for personal reasons – some people seemed to think I might have some health issues but that is absolutely not the case.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOA7YOPUTFHN7PJ3OYVY5SLPAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525132},"content":"Mr English (59) was previously group editorial director at regional media group Iconic Newspapers, and a former editor of the Limerick Leader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T23PNZKBHVBXZB5YIP7ZED4DJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525133},"content":"He began his role at the Sunday Independent in March, 2020, one week after the Covid-19 lockdown began. He was forced to spend his first four months working from home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DK3TBLJMJJD33E2TWCNRKZH7LQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525134},"content":"He later relocated to Dublin and spent his time working between the capital and Limerick.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRXSDFBP3REY3JKT4VT5GL56GM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525135},"content":"“I’ve done 17 years in Sunday newspapers which basically means you don’t have any weekends,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed it massively, there’s a brilliant team in the Sunday Independent, it’s been a huge joy and huge privilege but I feel like I’ve given it a decent shot.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3WJTQAOFFF6XFSUHJC62BIY6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525136},"content":"Mr English said he had decided form the outset to limit his time in the editor’s chair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEUPVBNEDFHVVH6LB3JHV3FJSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525137},"content":"“I’m pleased to have been able to go out on my own terms as well. I became an editor in 2007 at the Limerick Leader and I’ve seen so many editors being pushed out due to the challenging nature of the industry,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KC5V5D5YNGXJMUJVNVPB55JDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525138},"content":"“It has caused quite a bit of surprise, there’s no doubt it has taken my colleagues by surprise. And journalists being journalists, maybe there’s a suspicion that there is something more behind this but there actually isn’t. I’ve had a very good relationship with people in Mediahuis and I’m leaving on very good terms.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R26AQM5YSVD4DEKGW77NHBC3NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525139},"content":"Mr English will remain in situ until the end of April and said he had no immediate plans other than to take some time out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AMJC6M5A55HJJPFL7W3OIOVZFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525140},"content":"Of the declining print newspaper industry, he said papers such as the Sunday Independent would likely be among the last standing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6FFFMJ43RCFDBGTP4B7XSMKRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525141},"content":"“I think it’s got a lot of years ahead of it. I don’t think it will be the same five section newspaper it is now in ten years’ time but I absolutely believe it will still be in the market.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERJEDU47UZGNLPVJUUECJAXIMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525142},"content":"Mediahuis Ireland’s editor-in-chief Cormac Bourke said Mr English had held a key role through an unprecedented period of change and challenge in Irish journalism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EDVFUN6ERFNTJ6THB4FN2HVAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525143},"content":"“His passion for journalism and for the Sunday Independent has been clear in his tireless work over the past five years,” he said in a statement reported by the Irish Independent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2VQ56A63NEVPORG67PLY4UNUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739303525144},"content":"“We are sorry to see him step away and we wish Alan every success in the future.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Journalist cites ‘personal reasons’ as he brings five-year tenure to a close "},"display_date":"2025-02-11T11:49:02.819Z","headlines":{"basic":"Sunday Independent editor Alan English steps down","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YYUB7Q4LE3TD4U5SMZQD5VF6IY","auth":{"1":"7fb0e6ff4f5cffff567bd17fca273153490aab20ac82822996395aad9b0e6d16"},"focal_point":{"x":490,"y":374},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YYUB7Q4LE3TD4U5SMZQD5VF6IY.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/02/11/sunday-independent-editor-alan-english-steps-down/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"S24RJ2BIERGXFOD25THELHSSBI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":266,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/e15d6baa-026c-43c3-b046-ca7fdcdd2386/versions/1739089166/media/cdb4dce15abcf9df5565e05fbb0a1da2_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/02/09/message-from-the-editor-the-challenge-of-covering-donald-trumps-chaotic-whirlwind-presidency/","content_elements":[{"_id":"EPHX6QCEOREEXJYEN7V54SUOQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"This weekend, Washington Correspondent Keith Duggan <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/08/donald-trumps-first-16-days-what-he-has-signed-said-and-delivered-each-day/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/08/donald-trumps-first-16-days-what-he-has-signed-said-and-delivered-each-day/\">reports on the whirlwind first 16 days of the Trump presidency</a>. The last week alone has seen a dizzying blizzard of stories coming out of the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPEDDNC2UBCDNEXNAVIZVKEGVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last weekend, Donald Trump announced that the US would impose punitive 25 per cent tariffs on its two closest neighbours and allies, Canada and Mexico. Three days later, following “friendly” phone calls with the leaders of both countries, and a nervous reaction on Wall Street, the tariffs were suspended for one month, although a new 10 per cent tariff on Chinese goods went ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QRZCZC7EKZBE7OPP3YV6UMYLBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the same time, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who has been tasked by Trump with slashing federal spending, announced on his own X platform that he was “feeding” USAid, the agency founded more than 60 years ago by president John F Kennedy, “into the woodchipper”, with drastic consequences for health, education and poverty relief programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. As Martin Wall reports, some of those programmes are run by Irish aid agencies that receive very significant funding from USAid and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/02/08/panic-in-africa-and-concern-in-dublin-at-trumps-attacks-on-us-aid-programme-with-a-global-reach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/02/08/panic-in-africa-and-concern-in-dublin-at-trumps-attacks-on-us-aid-programme-with-a-global-reach/\">are now deeply concerned about the future</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDQCYP523RCYVNW72FV5FSSVFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"By Tuesday evening, following a meeting with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Trump was proposing the relocation of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza, which would come under American control and be redveloped, he said, as “the Riviera of the East”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KAN6QLTMOBDFVPMVOQSGBR7EGI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The next day he signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, accusing it of having “engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions” targeting the US and its “close ally” Israel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JFLAC634JBEFOKXOZ5RLAQ42E","additional_properties":{},"content":"These actions have sparked anger, dismay and in some cases delight inside the US and across the world. And there have been many other orders, actions and statements which could prove equally consequential in the long term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUODB4THNJFDDODPY75ZMIMDDA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Commentators describe the new administration’s “shock and awe” strategy as a deliberate attempt to flood the information zone. The firehose of non-stop announcements makes it difficult to distinguish the outlandish statement designed to shock political opponents from the radical policy shift with real-world consequences. It seems quite possible that the president himself does not always know the difference.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQQ6RSM3TJHHZKGDWJODGCV354","additional_properties":{},"content":"These tactics pose a real challenge for journalists seeking to cover them responsibly and accurately. They are expressly designed to generate blaring headlines, dominate news bulletins and swamp social media. That can have a numbing effect or cause some people to turn away from news altogether. The challenge for us at The Irish Times is to report clearly on what is really happening and why it matters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2KCMR4AOANAZ7I2TB3ILDSY3RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The 26th US president, Theodore Roosevelt, described his office as a “bully pulpit”. Roosevelt was using “bully” in its common meaning at the time of “superb” or “wonderful”. The 47th president, Donald Trump, takes a more modern interpretation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RCYQ3UR26VHSVHPTT6FDWWDOLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic","type":"text"},{"_id":"QHJSMK7DSZDW3MZI7YOXMR6U5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Editor","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPRBK7PCGRDRLGQ5BCQKYVNW6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Five key reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"TIRHDXCQ6JEKXIELZVXCIFNKDM","type":"list"},{"_id":"VQAF2RF4I5D4RFAXTACHUYYGAA","additional_properties":{},"content":" ","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic"}},"name":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic"}]},"description":{"basic":"The firehose of non-stop announcements makes it difficult to distinguish the outlandish statement from the radical policy shift. Perhaps the US president himself does not always know the difference"},"display_date":"2025-02-09T08:14:16.994Z","headlines":{"basic":"Message from the Editor: The challenge of covering Donald Trump’s chaotic, whirlwind presidency ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT Sunday"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YQFOOCVEPAV7PY2SH6O2KCENXE","auth":{"1":"8360791c4bd8e1bf82222f07714274184ca53b629ba0a6be12de05a95ec941fb"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YQFOOCVEPAV7PY2SH6O2KCENXE.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/02/09/message-from-the-editor-the-challenge-of-covering-donald-trumps-chaotic-whirlwind-presidency/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"NCPBWFEWHJB7XB6TCZKUGZG5ZU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":166,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7fa3bba7-9a7a-40d6-829c-35d5e6c74439/versions/1738947265/media/ab4b4203d3c25c827a9debf6c8804375_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/02/08/marty-whelans-wonderful-world-has-extra-appeal-in-dark-times/","content_elements":[{"_id":"YOCEQLJOYVEIHLPV45P6YZB53Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lyric FM breakfast presenter Marty Whelan was especially chipper on air on Friday, and he had every right to be. “Thank you for the kind words this morning,” he told listeners. “You’re very, very kind.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VFRGU3DSVFD5CEPMTQVMKYCGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Whelan’s listeners are not just very kind, they are more plentiful, according to the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) survey for 2024. They show that Marty in the Morning, the RTÉ station’s breakfast show, now has 71,000 listeners, his highest figure to date. Whelan’s audience has climbed 15,000 year on year – significant growth in percentage terms and a notable achievement given the competitiveness of the radio market at that time of day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSFUCTGLY5DQHLHFONWA5DOTCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Is this because none of us are getting any younger? Are more people simply coming around to the genial charms of Whelan? Or is there a touch of mood-correcting news avoidance at work?","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCBZN3PUIRG5XHWW2X6YATDS7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Whelan hinted at the latter on a couple of occasions during his Friday show, noting the value in “adding to the gaiety and the craic” in difficult times. He alluded to the grimness and harshness of current events before opting to finish his show with a beautiful reminder that not everything is always terrible, playing Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FCYD2AP6VHMZMXUVNU3LXSK3I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Whelan and his style of broadcasting may act as an audio salve for some listeners bogged down by the woes of the world, but his show is, of course, more than that. It’s a cultural home for listeners who appreciate a playlist that finds space for both Donna non vidi mai from Puccini opera Manon Lescaut and Everlasting Love by Love Affair from 1968.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JTZUPXNIEBANDGGXQMWYKHSXSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We’re glad that you’re there making a point of us being here,” Whelan told his listeners, later observing that “right across the schedule, you seem to be enjoying the station”. 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The thrill of London winning the chance to host the 2012 Olympics, a plethora of royal weddings, jubilees, and who can forget days and days and days of waiting for royal babies to arrive at the Lindo Wing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMYSRJ3OXBE7LKADUX3SACUTJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738754136497},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZMGXHE7MCNAFDLSYIF72F5ZHG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a note shared with staff on Wednesday, Sky News executive chairman David Rhodes thanked Burley for her “huge contribution to Sky, to the art of the interview and to British journalism”, and wished her “the best of luck”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZPX2WYIPFFVDMDYJI5ID2IZPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He added: “With millions of minutes presenting live rolling news, Kay’s legacy in television journalism is unmatched, as is her commitment to Sky’s legacy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWSLM7DB2RGOBBJYLNB4JP5DLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m sure some MPs in Westminster will sleep easy knowing they won’t face her indomitable questioning in the mornings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATE4AUDXXBGARLHNP4PX747G5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Kay confirmed that today was her final broadcast with Sky News. Of course, Breakfast continues – with the other current presenters and with our Friday-Sunday team.” – PA Wire","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Veteran journalist was one of original hosts of channel when it was launched in 1989"},"display_date":"2025-02-05T11:43:45.347Z","headlines":{"basic":"Broadcaster Kay Burley announces she is retiring from Sky News after 36 years","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WCHVNINQLBBMZBEHQ6GTKI7M6E","auth":{"1":"ac693727bc6b14fe38828f324a6b1f6fefdba2cc5e158c18281e5af17450e4cb"},"focal_point":{"x":988,"y":447},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WCHVNINQLBBMZBEHQ6GTKI7M6E.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"TV & Radio"},{"name":"Media"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/tv-radio/2025/02/05/broadcaster-kay-burley-announces-she-is-retiring-from-sky-news-after-36-years/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/tv-radio","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"TV & Radio"}}}},{"_id":"OJJREXQU4FGRVCM36ILJ5VJRBY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":373,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6c36502d-528b-4962-abcc-6403e6e2f2fa/versions/1738592732/media/4eb4f20ab6996497f376a37067c6ca84_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/02/04/maybe-rte-should-not-show-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-so-much/","content_elements":[{"_id":"P3E5AJNFUVBIBOV5LS5LO7SOQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s always good to see someone in politics stay faithful to strongly held beliefs, and to this list we can add <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/patrick-odonovan/\" target=\"_self\">Patrick O’Donovan</a> and his firm opinion that rerunning Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory just won’t cut it for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rte/\" target=\"_self\">RTÉ</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ADGTPCE4VECVOVER53RZJTGD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new Minister for Media said as much to the Irish Examiner shortly after his appointment, confirming that his view on this precise subject has not wavered since 2014, when it received its premiere at a hearing of the Oireachtas communications committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCFITXCNXBFUTAO6F27FEF3CKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kevin-bakhurst/\" target=\"_self\">Kevin Bakhurst</a>, now RTÉ director general, was in attendance then, and he will doubtless remember O’Donovan’s Chitty-averse, anti-Wonka remarks, coming so soon as they did after a repeat of his complaint that Oireachtas Report was being scheduled so late at night, it was only “for the benefit of insomniacs”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XGIMMVQOBH3FFNDA6FVA3ZLS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"O’Donovan was saddened by the chastening experience that was watching RTÉ over the Christmas 2013 break. The broadcaster’s annual festive line-up was “a recurring problem”, he warned, adding that Willy Wonka star Gene Wilder was “big in 1974, but he is not big now”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHFL5JBRC5DWTF5WCZN6A2VIME","additional_properties":{},"content":"This feels somewhat harsh in retrospect to Wilder, whose impish, vacant-eyed delivery of Pure Imagination in the 1971 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory led most TV obituary reports <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/gene-wilder-a-comic-actor-best-known-for-quirky-roles-1.2777426\" target=\"_self\">when he died in 2016</a>. Still, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Dick Van Dyke is now 99 and goes to the gym three times a week, so he’s presumably seasoned enough to realise you can’t win them all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMASJ2HY5RFIDJTHCC3CA4BTS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Despite RTÉ‘s best efforts on the Chitty Chitty front, I’ve never seen the 1968 Ken Hughes film, which is based on a children’s novel by James Bond creator Ian Fleming and has something in common with Willy Wonka in that the screenplay was co-authored by Dahl.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTVAVL3ILBH3PPP6JLHJOPCX4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"But I’m aware that the Minister is far from alone in his antipathy, not least because having mentioned to two colleagues that I was doing this deep dive, they both revealed that they had been terrified by the film as kids. This raises the possibility that there are policymakers out there who were also traumatised by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at an early age.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHU45AK6X5CWZB7C2ZRK3JWMPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“A strange, rather queasy film” was the verdict of British writer Simon Winder in his Bond/Fleming takedown The Man Who Saved Britain. “Decidedly up and down,” wrote Fergus Linehan, reviewing the film for The Irish Times upon its release, “with only the title tune being anyway catchy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZ6NXC224BB43L2JSG4AMKNJZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Alas, no one heeded the wisdom of critics even in 1968, and the musical duly graduated to the status of children’s classic, spawning a West End stage production in 2002. The future Minister for Media’s 2014 intervention was ignored. That same year, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the theme of the Late Late Toy Show, with host <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ryan-tubridy/\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Tubridy</a> – child of RTÉ that he was/is – telling reporters he had come up with the idea “in the green room after last year’s show”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6D62DGFPJVFKHITBP6AVANIBQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The title tune, an ode to a car, duly opened proceedings on the most-watched programme on Irish television, though there was no sign of the sinister Child Catcher, a villain created for the film and depicted in a manner now widely regarded as anti-Semitic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24HZZFXDUFCSNMRC7IFFSXHQSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"RTÉ‘s attachment to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang endures. A cursory search suggests the film has aired on RTÉ One or RTÉ2 at least five times in the last five years, with showings in June 2020 (bank holiday Monday), December 2020 (Christmas Day), December 2021 (St Stephen’s Day), January 2023 (New Year’s Day) and December 2023 (St Stephen’s Day).","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLXD3ONB4JGKZPD5L3KDBHWB6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"O’Donovan’s uncontroversial stance is that old film reruns aren’t going to lure RTÉ-eschewing younger viewers to the joys of linear television. It’s uncontroversial because no one is under the impression that they will. That’s not what these films are intended to do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGJ77RWPNZBUXCD4VAUQCI3CMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"No one in RTÉ thinks “just one more push with the Oompa-Loompas, and we’ve got Generation Alpha for life”. No one brings “let’s try not showing any Dick Van Dyke vehicles” as their big pitch to strategy meetings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q43D6GOQNNAIJI426EG3MJOGVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"For that matter, when ITV aired Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on the morning of New Year’s Day this year, its executives weren’t rubbing their hands with glee at finally chancing upon the antidote to the steady drift of audiences to streamers and social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4ZJYCSMEZDXTDKJA7FQNSPBW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"These films aren’t going out in peak slots. They don’t command pride of place on the home page of the RTÉ Player. They surface at points in the schedule when it would be uneconomical to put out new programming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NT57MBGERB43PHSVCPCZGOHRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Repeats, generally, are a symptom of a wider television marketplace problem, not the cause. In any case, not even the most fervent, ambitious supporters of public service broadcasting would dare ask the Government for the level of funding required to show something cool and exciting at 10am on December 26th, when half the country is still in bed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U34P7XQKUBHMPLPHTRG2NK4W24","additional_properties":{},"content":"As almost everybody knows, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory are examples of cheap vintage padding, and they have their disciples. Indeed, in 2003, a dark year when RTÉ found itself without the rights to broadcast these two “old reliables” at Christmas, it was schedule-shamed by the Sunday Independent, which concluded that “TV fans are sure to be disappointed”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IMCKASJNRFSTL6H2VUZPTHJOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"True, viewers have moved on a bit since then. The hope in the film industry is that they’ll have moved on so much, they’ll have come full circle – that’s why a reimagining of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is in an early stage of development at Amazon MGM Studios and Bond producers EON Productions, with Ireland’s own Enda Walsh doing the honours on the screenplay. I guess this one will be on Prime Video first.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGHKFP23BVEFZPUNHTCRUFPPXU","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan says reruns of old films won’t cut it for Montrose. 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This sparked a series of resignations and a clear-out at the top of the organisation, as well as a promise of root and branch reform of its corporate governance and culture.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LW2M3NPG5ACJETBENUUSKW47Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"The scandal culminated in an agreement to provide €725 million in State funding for the broadcaster over three years, with the television licence fee retained despite calls for it to be scrapped, and the commitment to multiyear annual funding from the government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRFN6M5RFJBWRB63GDXGTRDOL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the meeting Mr Bakhurst took Mr O’Donovan through the broadcaster’s strategy and the changes that were under way, with the meeting ending positively amid a broad agreement, it is understood.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PHOMJ26YVFG4PNQDC7KW4NV33A","additional_properties":{},"content":"A spokeswoman for Mr O’Donovan said he had visited the Montrose campus last Wednesday, and that the meeting was “both positive and constructive”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRV3RYKFPFFJ5OJBHGJZRT3GU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"A spokesman for RTÉ said it was “pleased to have the opportunity to set out the substantial progress made in reforms and its commitment to delivering the ambitious five-year strategy, particularly once the [voluntary exit package] has been agreed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CICGRN6MHJFLLIHDHGXHCKZRMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In an interview with the Irish Examiner before he was appointed to his current role, Mr O’Donovan was sharply critical of RTÉ – warning that the broadcaster risked losing younger viewers if it did not overhaul its programming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRMUEQZ4BFHPXG32U7YAWAOCMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t see that generation coming back, not unless there is a radical shift within what we deem to be public service broadcast to actually bring them back,” he said, telling the paper that “repeats of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Willy Wonka will not cut it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Jack Horgan-Jones"}},"name":"Jack Horgan-Jones"}]},"description":{"basic":"Incoming Minister for Arts and Media Patrick O’Donovan met with broadcaster’s director general Kevin Bakhurst and its chair Terence O’Rourke at Montrose "},"display_date":"2025-02-04T06:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"RTÉ told it must double down on reform and structural change","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"3EJVEAIQUTKYALO55PKO5X3HIE","auth":{"1":"a1fe90240d9d9bed007faccbd4e92d138532f641bde6db1bbb8c36ba5bb6711b"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3EJVEAIQUTKYALO55PKO5X3HIE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"},{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2025/02/04/political-sources-indicate-patience-is-wearing-thin-with-rte/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"H2FY55PUXRGVPLTUMUI4Q72WPM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":337,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/b3935aa4-b162-40e6-896a-1fc7ab691ddb/versions/1738351275/media/d2c646595ab9b97010f4d4146e93f8e7_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/02/03/no-one-is-asking-meta-to-act-as-god-just-not-to-pollute-the-public-space-with-lies/","content_elements":[{"_id":"ULH6QLEGAVGLRKVEVDPNDOZWXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg/\">Mark Zuckerberg</a> may have done us all a favour by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2025/01/07/meta-to-end-third-party-fact-checking-programme/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2025/01/07/meta-to-end-third-party-fact-checking-programme/\">sacking Meta’s fact-checkers</a>. He has clarified the difference between social media and what’s sometimes called traditional media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K7TLDBTGFFC4JIPF6JEVGP7M4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When we launched our independent fact-checking program in 2016, we were very clear that we didn’t want to be the arbiters of truth,” the Meta chief executive said as he wound down what was already a pretty weak defence against the promotion of <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/21/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/21/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny\">sexist</a>, racist and <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-58805645\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-58805645\">extremist</a> content on its platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram and Threads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OV7XVCUCARH5XG577RTBZGMEQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s not that Zuckerberg has given up on truth entirely. His new plan is to monitor falsehoods and misinformation through “community notes”, the same model used by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>’s X. This will allow users of the platform to give different perspectives on a piece of content. These perspectives are then run through an algorithm to produce a note “adding context”, depending on circumstances, to an offending post.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZN7VWT2YVBO3KJIREK2CP52UM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Championing the move, Zuckerberg says it will mean “<a href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/\" target=\"_self\">more speech and fewer mistakes</a>”, as though both are automatically good.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZ7ZQUQ6OZB2TBJVECSFWXNPMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"On the quantity of speech, let’s say you’re trying to evacuate a burning building – and 20 people are shouting obscenities at you, while another 20 are spreading falsehoods about the extent of the blaze. How would adding another 40 hecklers help?","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDTEGQZCCRGJFBO25QNFANUES4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As for mistakes, are these not integral to acquiring knowledge? The only way to avoid mistakes is to have no standards of inquiry – ie to have nothing to measure the quality of your investigations against.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHJDACPBKVEZHARDG27JKCWOYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Zuckerberg’s stance can be likened to what philosophers call “epistemological anarchy”. Epistemology is the study of knowledge, and the anarchist – in this context – sees the rigorous analytical methods of an Albert Einstein as pretty much equivalent to the “deep dive” research techniques of a Russell Brand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QI3VTNWKTNF2RBTQXV5THCWMSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Epistemological anarchy is “an attack on what you might call the normativity of epistemology – that there are better ways of going about establishing the truth”, explains John Divers, a professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4EUOEFGEZFVHPYQ5SYCHMIIHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The term is associated with Paul Feyerabend, an Austrian-born philosopher in the postmodernist tradition, who advocated an “anything goes” approach to intellectual inquiry. “An aspect of postmodernism is relativism of truth,” Divers notes. Postmodernists reject the idea that objective reality exists. Instead they see all truth as biased, historically contingent, or “relative” to the observer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3TTLTJKN5ABBIJF5I4M5TFHW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m to settle lawsuit","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"4S43E5DBDJF45A6TMCUVJ33RUQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I think lots of this stuff is predicated on a weak methodology,” with postmodernists using “hard cases [to] make bad law”, Divers continues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHVNOMCIV5E43HZGB5AVLUWGMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The propositions we concentrate on in lots of these disputes – where we wonder if we’ve got knowledge – tend to be on very difficult and contentious questions about how governments ought to behave ... or whether there are universal human rights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TATZDKLW5BGBVPN3B4I5AAKHEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“These are all really important questions.” But, says Divers, “Let’s start with the easy cases. Let’s start with the idea that belief, evidence, truth and knowledge enter our most simple and ordinary judgments: when the bus comes, what day the paper comes out, whether ‘yer man is taller than the other one’,” says Divers, who is from Glasgow and hasn’t lost the accent since moving to Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIMXWBBFOJEYVECOGZUWV4WIKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"When you consider a question like “What time did the bus arrive?”, relativity is nonsensical. If the bus arrived at 9.12am, it arrived at 9.12am for a postmodernist – just the same as for everyone else. Scale it up to something like climate science. Research shows about <a href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/scientific-consensus/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/scientific-consensus/\">97 per cent of climate scientists</a> have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening. There is room for doubt. But is it nearly as great as postmodernist sceptics – or your Facebook feed – would have you believe?","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGMGY7REKBHY7OUFEXRUXFIKGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Focusing on the manner in which facts and beliefs are used in everyday life is the best way of “getting to grips” with theoretical questions about truth, Divers says. There is a difference between “what is true”, and “what you take to be true”. In everyday scenarios, “you’re trying to align” the two “but they are not the same thing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EF24UD4H3FCKPLL3IAPNYIH3VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before Trump shows they stand for nothing","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SPO527ZUJJDDTGWA3PSEWZGG2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Divers sees postmodernists implicitly accepting this “minimalist view” of objective truth – even if they’re loath to admit it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LV5ERLW6QBCAJA7UFVEDUH2UGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When people disclaim objective truth ... quite often what they are disavowing is absolute certainty.” Under a minimalist view of objectivity, “I’ve already disavowed that,” says Divers, who is giving a public lecture on the nature of truth at TCD next month. “My notion of objective truth sits quite comfortably with the idea that, at no point, have we a guarantee that our inquiry has been successful.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCGVLNHLEJACXNADHSMEN3ELL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In aiming for objective truth, there is a constant dance between “modesty and presumption”, he says. “In my view, quite a lot of what’s happening in relativism and postmodernism is the fighting of straw men: set up notions of knowledge and truth to be so abstract and demanding that it becomes quite easy to shoot them down.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PCHLSIQKE5A4TBRDW6ND6EBRCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Talking of straw men, Zuckerberg’s reference to “arbiters of the truth” is a classic deflection technique. No one is asking Meta to act as God in public debates. All that users of its platforms reasonably expect is that a $1.7 trillion (€1.6 trillion) <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock.html\">company</a> makes some serious effort not to pollute the public space with barefaced lies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RXPZRK2INHYBAXEW4MAN53FHE","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Joe Humphreys"}},"name":"Joe Humphreys"}]},"description":{"basic":"Unthinkable: Meta’s stance on fact-checking resembles a philosophical position known as ‘epistemological anarchy’"},"display_date":"2025-02-03T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"No one is asking Meta to act as God - just not to pollute the public space with lies","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IFUCKRCZFC3AD3L6ERTE7JHHSU","auth":{"1":"4a6f8914397b6dfccee165792bd5f870a1fb1cb465cd9cfeb40d93664144b758"},"focal_point":{"x":2166,"y":1600},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IFUCKRCZFC3AD3L6ERTE7JHHSU.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Media"},{"name":"Technology"},{"name":"Big Tech"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/02/03/no-one-is-asking-meta-to-act-as-god-just-not-to-pollute-the-public-space-with-lies/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"I6PQZPV44JALZDPTBFUK2YWNCQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/02/02/it-sunday-businesses-in-ireland-brace-for-impact-from-trump-policy-changes/","content_elements":[{"_id":"ZHBKOETJZZCEPD7VDT575ZWCR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437332},"content":"And so it begins. This morning the world is waking up to the news that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> has <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/02/trump-imposes-punishing-tariffs-canada-and-mexico-hit-back/\">imposed steep tariffs</a> on three of the US’s largest trading partners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBFVLVSHPRDUFGZ2UY46XGP6FE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437333},"content":"In an executive order on Saturday, Trump applied additional tariffs of 25 per cent to all imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10 per cent tariff on imports from China. These come into force on Tuesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GE46NOURTVDFVLVPFP7LFTEMEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437334},"content":"In a post on his social media channel, Truth Social, Trump said he had imposed the tariffs “because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our citizens, including fentanyl”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XDBQCWZFFFAJMELV6RKBNHTUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437335},"content":"The move, following through on a pre-election pledge by the president (albeit it the tariffs for China are lower than those cited during the campaign), appears to end hopes that the Trump administration would take a nuanced approach to international trade policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AS7JUFDPOVCCVL2D6NXFONJJN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437336},"content":"It also indicates that Trump is willing to use tariffs to progress non-economic issues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DXSOWZZZMJAV5MEK5CQD3PIJXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437337},"content":"In response, Canada and Mexico have announced their own plans for retaliatory tariffs on the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYO2D56QXBC75JNTSYQSDCI6NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437338},"content":"In his column this weekend, written before the tariffs were imposed, Cliff Taylor looked at Trump’s suggestion that diversity and inclusion policies in air traffic control were partly to blame for the tragic crash in Washington DC.","type":"text"},{"_id":"76LHQGFEOVBGLCCDW7XNF4OM6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437339},"content":"Taylor notes Trump said he made the link “because I have common sense”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VRSR3VBXVB2JDBU54AWWORQ6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437340},"content":"While it is “easy to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/01/trumps-claim-that-diversity-policies-caused-plane-crash-is-part-of-an-attack-on-woke-capitalism/\">dismiss this as Trump being Trump</a>”, as Taylor writes, “there are clear signs of change internationally”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYDOM3X4ANCG7A4B26CKFUEJZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437341},"content":"These changes are going to pose questions here for Ireland, as an open economy with big links to the US, and most likely sooner, rather than later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BX23SPF3SFGPBI6GFGIOYPJ2NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437342},"content":"In his Overheard column Colin Coyle highlights <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/02/02/overheard-irish-civil-servants-pore-over-a-us-right-wing-roadmap-so-radical-even-trump-seems-wary/\" target=\"_blank\">concern in Iveagh House about Project 2025</a>, the 900-page policy diatribe formulated by an ultraconservative think tank seeking to influence Trump’s presidency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EW4RIE376JFO5CTPJIZ7KTWIKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437343},"content":"One area of immediate change is Trump giving climate scepticism a turbo boost.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VEDABS3WGFCKVHE5WXOFJFCIOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437344},"content":"Businesses in Ireland and elsewhere are wondering what this shift means for them. “It looks like manna from heaven for the likes of Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, or the big aircraft leasing companies based here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGXGGIMYLVHVDKNYV5LQVW3VKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437345},"content":"Taylor says at a time when Trump is swiftly making changes, the EU is under pressure due to low growth with the European Commission promising in a new competitiveness plan this week to pull back “drastically” on the regulatory and administrative burden facing businesses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5EIPWWJ3VHMNMUG6AOO2GU52A","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437346},"content":"Despite Trump’s regulatory push back and his attack on the green agenda, Taylor says it is essential for Ireland to think longer term and develop its own supply of renewable energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQFGUGPWFJFO3A4DJHRJ2G35FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437347},"content":"“Surely the climate agenda will survive and, in time, revive internationally.” He says the new government needs fresh thinking on “Ireland’s energy transition and persuading a public that the State has a deliverable strategy,” not least to make it more resilient in the face of weather events like Storm Éowyn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7YU5UVFRJDYZK6PDMM676SGJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437348},"content":"“Trump’s culture wars have just got real. He is changing the agenda. The context for Irish policy is changing too, and strategic thinking is required.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"46QIINSMWBAU7PI46FBMDMQYR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437349},"content":"Five Key Reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"EI3GHKJI3RDIXPDTWG7KH5INGE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"PEI3YIDJJBE35ID36MYXSGQDIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437351},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/six-nations/\" target=\"_blank\">Six Nations</a> got under way this weekend and Simon Easterby’s Ireland got off to a cracking start with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2025/02/01/ireland-survive-early-sting-and-fire-back-with-venom-to-take-down-england/\" target=\"_blank\">victory over England in Dublin</a>. While Ireland had a slightly ropey start, Gerry Thornley reckoned the second half was arguably their best since the World Cup. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2025/02/02/watching-england-scramble-for-positives-after-losing-to-ireland-will-never-not-be-enjoyable/\" target=\"_blank\">Malachy Clerkin writes </a>that we should “ignore the knowing bores” who talk down the victory. “Ireland sucked up everything England had to throw at them, played like drains themselves for most of the first half, and still had enough in hand to beat them out the gate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARXBJQEPTVH4ZNHYB7HSKK5Y2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437352},"content":"Meanwhile, in this week’s On the Money newsletter, Dominic Coyle tells <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/31/bill-collection-charges-what-is-the-best-deal-for-you/\" target=\"_self\">you how to save money</a> on your bin collection. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com//newsletters/on-the-money-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here</a> to receive the newsletter straight to your inbox every Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCCUEUV45BECTPYMZCQBSJJ42I","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437353},"content":"As always, there is much more on <a href=\"http://irishtimes.com/\">irishtimes.com</a>, including rundowns of all the latest movies in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/\">film reviews</a>, tips for the best restaurants in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/\">food section</a> and all the latest in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/\">sport</a>. There are plenty more articles exclusively available for Irish Times subscribers <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/subscriber-only/\">here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7GXOG2MYFBUNJTLN2AS2SXZBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1738489437354},"content":"We value your views. Please feel free to send comments, feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@irishtimes.com\">feedback@irishtimes.com</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"While it is easy to dismiss ‘Trump being Trump’ there are clear signs of change internationally"},"display_date":"2025-02-02T09:26:54.334Z","headlines":{"basic":"Businesses in Ireland brace for impact from Trump policy changes ","native":"IT Sunday newsletter: Businesses in Ireland brace for impact from Trump policy changes"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT Sunday"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"TXHCMWT5CEB2TILBLP3AWCVKKA","auth":{"1":"ab7c7d47bce8c48d91fb5a789de6fa5e9fbc32db09bc066726c8c14ed0c3ec00"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/TXHCMWT5CEB2TILBLP3AWCVKKA.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/02/02/it-sunday-businesses-in-ireland-brace-for-impact-from-trump-policy-changes/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"72LOD4UV3RCTXL4TF3Z2UGJEO4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":276,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/7e879161-06f2-46d2-87a8-cf97859d1933/versions/1738252607/media/9f24940523a6a789c389b4898f01ed96_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/2025/02/01/irelands-cultural-sector-was-hoping-for-an-inspiring-choice-of-minister-instead-its-faced-with-trumpian-weave/","content_elements":[{"_id":"IHSC3WVE25AQPMNO6BN3JVINRM","additional_properties":{},"content":"This week, in his first interview since becoming Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/patrick-odonovan/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick O’Donovan</a> shared his thoughts on the challenge facing <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rte/\" target=\"_blank\">RTÉ</a>, chief among them the flight of younger viewers from linear TV.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DG3DDFCJ5JHW3LOKTEYKFUAWKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t see that generation coming back, not unless there is a radical shift within what we deem to be public-service broadcast to actually bring them back,” he <a href=\"https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41561782.html\" target=\"_blank\">told the Irish Examiner</a>, adding that “repeats of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Willy Wonka will not cut it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Q532VL5KFBPREMPDFLZ2ET7L4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new Minister’s analysis of the shift to streaming had something of the <a href=\"https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/inside-the-weave-how-donald-trumps-rhetoric-has-grown-darker-and-windier/\" target=\"_blank\">Trumpian weave</a> about it. “They don’t call it the radio because they don’t know what a radio is and they certainly don’t listen to it,” he explained, as if describing the social habits of some faraway tribe. “They certainly would not be listening to Drone FM on a Saturday afternoon.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"27S2J42EIZGLTGSDXC5V752LIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"These are the first insights we have been granted into the thinking of the man who is now responsible for the State’s cultural, media and communications policy. O’Donovan doesn’t have much of a record in these subjects. Apart from vociferous support for local sporting organisations, in the 14 years since he became a TD he has had nothing much to say about arts policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BA5RRJWRYNGJTGMZALYLO5DNKA","additional_properties":{},"content":"His thoughts on the disruptions caused by digital communications, social media, artificial intelligence and big tech (all of which are now the responsibility of his department, following the addition of Communications to the brief) have been banal at best. He seems fond of taking a dig when the opportunity arises, but you would search in vain for an original idea or a concrete proposal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VPOQWTHSDBHATCLI6AL7W4UJ4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Like most of his peers, he <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2023/09/14/what-is-the-value-of-montrose-site-maybe-not-as-much-as-people-think/\" target=\"_blank\">joined the condemnation of RTÉ</a> during the scandals of 2023, suggesting the national broadcaster should sell off its Montrose campus. That was a reasonable suggestion put forward by a number of commentators at the time. But, as with many of his recorded comments, it had an off-the-top-of-the-head quality, with no apparent follow-up. (RTÉ‘s director general, Kevin Bakhurst, has since indicated that selling Montrose is not a workable financial proposition, so let’s see if O’Donovan raises it again now he is the Minister.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNY4QJME7ZG7RBZR4GVBRG2RYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"You won’t get any of them to admit it, but there will have been glum faces among those who run the State’s culture industries when O’Donovan’s name was pulled out of Micheál Martin’s hat nine days ago. They would have been hoping for O’Donovan’s party colleague Hildegarde Naughton, who has at least been known to darken the doors of a theatre occasionally, or Niamh Smyth of Fianna Fáil, who served as her party’s arts spokeswoman and ably chaired the Oireachtas media committee during RTÉ’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rte-pay-controversy/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Tubridy meltdown</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIROKQP2HVCA7OZYL6JHSEGBZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"What do you want from a minister for culture? At best, a committed advocate with a clear vision and a strong voice at cabinet. Too often in the three decades since it became a senior ministry, the post has been an afterthought bestowed on the last name on the list of those who must be rewarded with a job. Some of those appointees turned out to be better than others. Too often, though, they clearly didn’t have enough political clout when it came to budget negotiations. That was a contributory factor in the yawning gap that emerged for several years during the economic recovery between the rhetoric and the reality of successive governments’ arts policies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MV4YKA6M7ZDARPGEKXNJH64ZWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"O’Donovan’s predessor Catherine Martin, as deputy leader of her party, and with a background in arts and education, delivered the biggest step change in decades. She also became embroiled in a controversy not of her making over governance at RTÉ, which she didn’t handle particularly well, and reluctantly agreed to an unsatisfactory political fudge over funding public-service media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6YAOX6DUANBEFHURYILUSZJUR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738405497711},"content":"Catherine Martin has been the most consequential minister for culture since Michael D Higgins","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"36UZTF6NPJENBBC64BEZH23AXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"O’Donovan inherits two particularly pressing questions from her. The first is what to do about the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2024/01/20/the-government-is-giving-2000-artists-325-a-week-to-help-them-be-more-creative-how-its-going-so-far/#:~:text=The%20Basic%20Income%20for%20the%20Arts%20scheme%20%E2%80%9Callows%20those%20financial,way%20to%20live%20and%20work.\" target=\"_blank\">Basic Income for the Arts</a> pilot scheme, which is due to wind down at the end of this year. Pressed on this during the election campaign, both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael committed to continuing and extending the scheme, yet the Programme for Government is equivocal on the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTKKJ5Q76JHQ3IJRPN2EKMPNLU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The other is the proposed content levy on streaming platforms and pay-TV services to create a new fund for Ireland’s audiovisual industry. Curiously, O’Donovan told the Examiner that he “does not see an appetite” at EU level to tackle the problems of public-service media. While reading himself into his brief, he should really acquaint himself with the provisions of the European Union’s <a href=\"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/audiovisual-and-media-services\" target=\"_blank\">audiovisual media services directive</a>, which for several years has allowed member states to implement such a levy – something that has been done by France, Germany and Spain, and that was high on the agenda of the last government.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Hugh Linehan"}},"name":"Hugh Linehan"}]},"description":{"basic":"New Minister has inherited two pressing issues. His record doesn’t instil confidence"},"display_date":"2025-02-01T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Ireland’s cultural sector was hoping for an inspiring choice of Minister. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUMET2GH3FEKZIYKI2SA5OPVK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Hickey has written to the Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan to notify him of his resignation. He has served as a member of the RTÉ Board since July 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PDN2SXOKG5GQ7ORQXI7DWWZCSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"RTÉ chairman Terence O’Rourke said: “Daire has been a member of the RTÉ board through some of the most challenging years in the organisation’s history. He has taken the decision now to stand down to concentrate on other commitments. We thank him for his service.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYI2QF7PVFFWZLV7STTIU7FSWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Hickey was a co-founder of the Web Summit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKHAVX7K75EF3HT5M4PF5ZK2NE","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was on the board of RTÉ through some of its most turbulent years. During a routine audit of the organisation’s accounts two years ago, an issue emerged over payments made to broadcaster Ryan Tubridy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLKA74CVLNDNZCESYUGQOECSLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Within days, accountancy firm Grant Thornton was commissioned by RTÉ board’s audit and risk committee to carry out a full investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YW2MA4TS45DW7BUW6QPL2QHMBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The initial issue related to payments linked to a deal between Mr Tubridy and Renault Ireland. Under the deal, which was underwritten by RTÉ, Mr Tubridy would be paid €75,000 in exchange for a number of appearances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKT7I3UL2RBWJHBMTLJV4V7MYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"When Renault pulled out of the deal after a year, RTÉ were left to cover the payments for the next two years, which totalled €150,000. The payments were made to Mr Tubridy, through his agent NK Management, by RTÉ through a “barter account” used to trade goods and services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDUMWRM2AZHQPJ5O2WRPTLPERY","additional_properties":{},"content":"RTÉ informed then-minister for media Catherine Martin about a potential issue, but not that it related to payments to a presenter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KA5LZFWMGVH7FJQSCSWMY33JCQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"She was advised a “fact finding” exercise had been commissioned “in response to a payment queried by the auditors”, said a spokesman for the minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRPQVLSFQVF7PJUN7NE5RYY7ZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Earlier that month Mr Tubridy had announced he would be stepping down as host of the Late Late Show, after 14 years in the role.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Colin Gleeson"}},"name":"Colin Gleeson"}]},"description":{"basic":"Businessman served on the organisation’s board through some of its most turbulent years\n"},"display_date":"2025-01-30T21:22:17.579Z","headlines":{"basic":"Daire Hickey steps down from RTÉ board ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PPE53ZPGZC7BOVMEGGR7ZVKP2A","auth":{"1":"2f37104b894fc5b8a8981b89701665d87e28e9675e6622272edda1efd1145a9d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PPE53ZPGZC7BOVMEGGR7ZVKP2A.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/01/30/daire-hickey-steps-down-from-rte-board/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"23UQ5E4ZXVGGFD2N7OIVVSXCPA","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/01/30/irish-advertising-market-will-expand-7-this-year-forecasts-core/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QF4JNBH4D5DMBFJF6AJDBQLVWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991837},"content":"The Irish advertising market will grow 7.3 per cent to €1.7 billion this year, despite the relative lack of major sporting events, with only print advertising revenues expected to decline, marketing group Core has forecast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5FDC252ZFC5TD6EIRH6JTCXJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991838},"content":"Core, which is the largest buyer of advertising in Ireland, said growth would be driven by both digital media - which is set to account for almost two-thirds of spending - and the ongoing post-pandemic resurgence in out-of-home advertising.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PWES2XCXZAL5JD2EMBPXNYTSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991839},"content":"The projected rise is lower than the 7.7 per cent increase recorded in 2024, which took the market in the Republic to €1.59 billion. 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Core has pencilled in a slower 1.7 per cent rate of growth in 2025, taking the market to €259.1 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZRIB7VLKBGSLBPKJP3UVPYWSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991850},"content":"As well as the free-to-air sporting events that are scheduled to take place, Sky’s increased commitment to the Premier League also provides a boost, it noted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYYK7VX7CRAUZHH77FHQRFVA64","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991851},"content":"Beyond sport, Core said programming highlights would include the Siobhán McSweeney-hosted Irish version of reality hit The Traitors on RTÉ, as well as Love Island All Stars on Virgin Media and the return of post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us to Sky.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4PZNAD6NVD2LL35KLFFXVZCMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991852},"content":"After “another strong year” for the audio market, Core forecasts that radio revenues will grow 1.7 per cent to €159.6 million this year, while digital audio will grow 12.3 per cent to €20.1 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHEJY2EGV5DALKZ3KWASGAOSYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991853},"content":"“With the continued growth in popularity of digital audio, advertisers will need to review their investment in this space,” it advised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2RBTWO7OZHVVPMXENPBXWBIKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991854},"content":"It is predicting a further drop of 9.5 per cent in print advertising this year - on top of a 10.9 per cent decline last year - taking it down to €61.9 million. News publishers’ digital revenues grew an estimated 4.8 per cent last year, however, and could rise 3.9 per cent to €31.6 million in 2025.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KS52YA7EUNEPZOEXWSQKBZHSD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738253991855},"content":"A sharp drop in referral traffic from social media platforms Facebook and X is “a worry” for news publishers, Core added, while Google’s AI-related changes to search could also reduce the visibility of articles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Growth in television revenues set to be slower than in 2024, while print is expected to decline further"},"display_date":"2025-01-30T17:00:21.93Z","headlines":{"basic":"Irish advertising market will expand 7% this year, forecasts Core","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JYKPTXZ66JBDJCML4D22DBGKDA","auth":{"1":"5c8e84b3d58e4f6b451691fb61367fdab66390f8111b7b05e71d55536275552b"},"focal_point":{"x":1943,"y":1619},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JYKPTXZ66JBDJCML4D22DBGKDA.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/2025/01/30/irish-advertising-market-will-expand-7-this-year-forecasts-core/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"RGYHDPIP4BA6BCRAVIEIYIICW4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":390,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/c1c4c0ba-43f8-44c6-a701-f6badc21a7b6/versions/1738003881/media/1e05314ad3076ea9abef32d1b61838ca_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/01/28/groundhog-day-welcome-to-the-groundhog-decade/","content_elements":[{"_id":"CNTQDBGGSZA7PGPJ4YXQBNMIKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Increasingly, this feels like Groundhog Day, or groundhog week,” said <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ivana-bacik/\" target=\"_blank\">Ivana Bacik</a> last Thursday – a day when the Dáil was, to borrow a line from the film referenced by the Labour leader, “playing yesterday’s tape”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFPKH4LQJVATTFDCTOGAOQM5XQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Never mind groundhog week, or even groundhog year. A recent chance hearing of Sonny & Cher’s I Got You Babe – the song that blares out from Bill Murray’s clock radio every morning – sent me spiralling down a weary path of wondering if we are, in fact, living through a groundhog decade. Increasingly, it does feel like it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWW2ID5XKFAVDBEDGEPWNNOYVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Groundhog Day, in its original meaning as a Pennsylvanian celebration of meteorological superstition, is this Sunday, so it’s as good a time as any to posit that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump</a> 2.0 and humanity’s related failure to address its most pressing problems have combined with the media’s love of regurgitation to fast turn the 2020s into a chaotic mash-up of all the worst parts of previous decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CEUBWHRQS5DOHGIVBXM3HRVWY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Well, it’s a theory. But it does seem as if things we might once have expected to have left behind by 2025 – misogyny, extended power cuts, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-lowry/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Lowry</a>’s political career – are all still with us and may never not be, like scammers, broken appliances and Grey’s Anatomy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P4NRWJ2TE5HA7GMRDCV3KUA3Z4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bacik, for her part, attributed her sensation of being trapped in a time-loop to Micheál Martin and Simon Harris swapping roles, the reinstalling of Donald Trump in the White House and her sense that Ireland is “returning to the bad old days of stroke politics, of a-nod-and-a-wink politics, with Fianna Fáil back in the driving seat – all we need now is the return of the Galway tent to complete the picture”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIDZEQV425EVNAN73SHHTA7QU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m not sure where the Galway tent is billowing about these days, but it’s not just politics, of course, where reboots and rehashes are in vogue. In the entertainment industry, too, they’re everywhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BB4DQSNEFVAL3JJVXALDXQFEXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"At least 1980s TV detective Bergerac, freshly dug out of intellectual-property retirement, has had plenty of time to enjoy the quiet life on Jersey before his reimagining this year as Irish actor <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/damien-molony-from-kildare-to-the-top-of-british-tv-1.3985174#:~:text=Damien%20Molony%20was%20reared%20in,solicitor%2Dturned%2Dtravel%20guide.&text=Almost%20obscured%20by%20a%20multi,refined%20setting%20of%20the%20theatre.\" target=\"_blank\">Damien Molony</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDR24VYMB5BZFHAPUCFIVFWI34","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the higher-octane, higher-budget end of the spectrum, Superman and Iron Man are both destined to return to screens in 2025, about five minutes since they last appeared on them. Nothing, it seems, is as unshakeable as Hollywood studios’ belief that what audiences want most is a man who swoops in, saves the world and then hightails it out of there before anyone can ask awkward questions about the law of diminishing returns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJZRTIC6TZDYVKDS6VNUJNOXNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Still, the collective penchant for citing Groundhog Day as a metaphor for repetitive events is almost as enduring, and this is where I have to confess that I have, appropriately enough, written about this before.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EO7HR7N3MVATZFKB36WUBMMCGI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Three years ago, in a sort of post-pandemic cry for help masquerading as media analysis, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/groundhog-day-is-the-best-film-ever-made-about-working-in-media-1.4789983\" target=\"_blank\">I noted how frequently journalists invoke this now 32-year-old film</a>, written by Danny Rubin and director Harold Ramis, to capture the despondency of everything, not least their own working days, going around and round in crushingly samey circles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQESC3OAQFC3HLZRZIOK4FKHNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Copying and pasting whole paragraphs of that piece here would be a meta timesaver, but I’ll confine myself to repeating this one key point: that the despair of Groundhog Day is not about the same things happening over and over, it’s about the same things happening over and over without consequence. Once more, without feeling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPRXFT5ZPVGSLFWOAIPHJVD2PI","additional_properties":{},"content":"This is what makes the re-election of Trump, after four years of healing, ranting from the periphery and cathartic attempts at accountability, so draining and numbing for the Americans who did not vote for him. And it is why the “Trump bump” for news traffic, subscriptions and television ratings is scant to non-existent for most media outlets this time around. Indeed, a “Trump slump”, prompted by a sanity-preserving surge in news avoidance, seems poised to be the more lasting trend.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNLTS5ZGOJGVLHAMLX4KNYU4IY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It would be nice to think the Atlantic is wide enough to protect us from the regressive cultural shift under way in the US, but the nodding along with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/23/finn-mcredmond-maybe-mark-zuckerberg-is-right-its-time-to-celebrate-masculine-energy-again/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark “masculine energy” Zuckerberg</a> is enough to suggest it isn’t.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EDAEOFADOJBQFIARTBGNWGRLHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This is where my own Groundhog Day senses spike. It’s been a while, for sure, since I read Susan Faludi’s 1991 bestseller Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. But I think about this book, in which Faludi dissected the Reagan-era media-driven counter-attack on the feminist advances of the 1970s, almost every week. I’ve lived through this timeline before.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UZIFCEH5ND6NNQT2FMHW2E4YI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A major portion of that backlash included the demonisation of women in paid employment and we see that again now in this groundhog decade’s toxic remix of the 1980s and the Trump 1.0 era just past.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGEDISDJV5BMVOJW2AROXYOYQE","additional_properties":{"_id":"4SVDOUNWVZBX7IUES5UXSJZVPE"},"content":"Donald Trump’s first day: A bishop’s plea for mercy; cancer vaccine promise; pardons for Capitol rioters","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"KKV6E2OFBNB5HFTDDN7DJMVD3I","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s not only there in the rollback of reproductive rights in the US, the once again explicit equation of “merit” with white heterosexual men and specific policies-in-waiting, such as Trump acolytes’ insistence that women in the US military shouldn’t be allowed serve in combat roles. It’s also present in the news media tendency to give reactionary “movements” a 21st-century gloss.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6HYC3SKGJHKTJFRAHV4PTGDNU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Say what you like about “trad wives”, they’ve got a great agent. Maybe the women who didn’t get into the Cabinet last week should get in touch.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UDNDDYFLEZHAROAN3SNZTJ2VW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As ever, the same old tired sexists find it easy to reframe themselves as refreshing iconoclasts. Even the entire “woke” discussion – interminable in its own right – is just the “politically correct” one on steroids. This, to echo Bacik’s take on the “new” Government, “would be funny if it were not so serious”. There are headlines every hour showing how serious it is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"62IC4ELQOBGSXCDK4N4MC7W23I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Maybe someday we will get to play a new tape. But it’s not looking great for the 2020s, a decade in which politics and culture have – at best – stalled. Call me pessimistic, but I’m not sure AI is going to help.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGHKFP23BVEFZPUNHTCRUFPPXU","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Groundhog Day? 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But there is little point putting your entire strategy on hold on account of a US president who may not even know himself what he actually plans to do on the key areas affecting Ireland, notwithstanding the bluster of the last few days.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLBDUNBNMFBUJEBUCTRUHCBD2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684747},"content":"Taylor notes that the job of the new government is to “use the bounteous resources the state currently has much more efficiently than its predecessor, and leave a real legacy of housing and improved social and economic infrastructure from this period of plenty. Using the fruits of current growth to lay the basis for the future makes perfect sense”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOEMVUWIRZFWZING3ZHKHELHSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684748},"content":"He further notes that progress is unlikely with some spilled milk. “The Government is going to have to upset many of the people who voted for it, the comfortable classes and the Nimbys who don’t seem to want anything built. It needs to think of the under-35s scrambling to get houses, many paying crazy rents, and the need to maintain investment so that this generation can continue to get jobs. If it does not deliver, this generational divide will fester, with unpredictable consequences.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KG2YFGAEGNBSDNIDYUKRGUCTC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684749},"content":"The intractable issue of housing is also the focus of David McWilliams’ attention this weekend and he notes that the new Programme for Government<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/25/david-mcwilliams-some-are-getting-rich-from-the-housing-crisis-because-one-persons-mortgage-is-anothers-piggy-bank/\" target=\"_blank\"> “accepts that rising house prices are a given”</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTGEMKNXTFHKLFVBIIHKUAEV6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684750},"content":"McWilliams asks “who benefits from this” and also, where is the wealth created from higher property prices going –” Irish people or foreign investors?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SL22LDNOPZELVKB57HVAEBYHXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684751},"content":"“Surely if Government policy can’t stabilise houses prices, it should – at the very least – ensure that the wealth accruing from house price increases benefits Irish people?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5EFJT3R3RDM3FNFBSSSVFNS64","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684752},"content":"In his column McWilliams questions why we allow foreign funds to buy Irish property. “If the country had no money and had to depend on foreign capital to build it might be understandable, but Ireland is full of money.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3UPWE3WJNFJFMBUQ3QVH6YSJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684753},"content":"“Or, to put it another way, if we can’t stop house prices going up, should the Government at least ensure that the wealth finds its way into Irish hands? . . . After all, Ireland, with our huge deposit base, doesn’t need foreign capital. So why are we giving away the crown jewels?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VANJQHPX55HGZPECYJOHFJJX6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1737884684754},"content":"Five Key Reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"CGRJXOLEYRG3HOTT6G5KF5STSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309128},"content":"<b>1) </b>Joanne Cronin <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/property/interiors/2025/01/26/diary-of-a-retrofit-it-cost-60000-but-it-is-worth-every-cent/\" target=\"_blank\">shares her experience of a retrofitting</a> an F-rated three-bed, semidetached 1922s house in the Tenters in Dublin. “We prioritised an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/retrofitting/\">energy retrofit</a> and sought recommendations from colleagues, leading us to a registered one-stop shop (OSS) with the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sustainable-energy-authority-of-ireland/\">Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland</a> (SEAI).”","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7HJW7FXGFAOPJBJYFRCOVKHBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309129},"content":"<b>2) </b>On the first anniversary of his death, Ian Bailey’s sister Kay Reynolds <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/01/25/my-brother-ian-bailey-pleaded-his-case-and-begged-me-to-keep-in-touch-and-i-did/\" target=\"_blank\">describes the impact on their family of the accusation</a> that the west Cork-based journalist murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HRAMHVB4KBDMPLYEWSRUZ5WIVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309130},"content":"<b>3) </b>Keith Duggan looks at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/01/24/donald-trumps-stunning-first-week-back-in-the-white-house-shows-hes-on-a-mission-to-leave-a-legacy/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump’s stunning first week</a> back in the White House which shows he’s on a mission to leave a legacy. While regaining power has invigorated Trump, for the US president’s popularity at home to last, he will have to ensure talk of a golden age translates in into more money in the pockets ordinary people’s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWPVPFAY6RAKPBJRRXD2CQRGJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309131},"content":"<b>4) </b>The story of the “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/\">GAA</a> catfish” has seemed inescapable. First revealed by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2022/06/06/gaa-catfish-the-2-johnnies-and-the-fake-identity-case-theyre-cracking/?\">The 2 Johnnies Podcast two years ago</a>, the saga yielded a recent update on the alleged catfish that has attracted millions of listeners and has reportedly led to complaints to the PSNI, writes Paul Colgan. In this case, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2025/01/24/the-gaa-catfish-and-fake-online-profiles-how-can-people-protect-themselves-from-social-media-deceit/\" target=\"_blank\">the GAA catfish has reportedly targeted scores of people </a>including GAA players, individuals in the entertainment industry and various Irish public figures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJITJUGV6JFTRMPHSLRGUXVWHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309132},"content":"<b>5) </b>The new Government finally came into power a day later than planned and just under two months after the general election on November 29th last. Marie O’Halloran reviews<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/01/23/whos-in-the-cabinet-all-the-ministers-appointed-by-taoiseach-micheal-martin-and-their-roles/\" target=\"_blank\"> the new Ministers and their portfolios</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMJLSABFGJEVDP3CGPCI3R2ZCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309133},"content":"In this week’s On the Money newsletter, Joanne Hunt writes about car insurance and suggests that if you are paying more than €568 a year to insure your car, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/24/how-to-save-on-your-car-insurance/\" target=\"_blank\">you may be spending too much</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3SZHF3OGZEI7GQT2V5GMEQ7PE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309134},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com//newsletters/on-the-money-newsletter/\">Sign up here</a> to receive the newsletter straight to your inbox every Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5J7U4QXX75HDHGSKSC3WRUG5SI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309135},"content":"As always, there is much more on <a href=\"http://irishtimes.com/\">irishtimes.com</a>, including rundowns of all the latest movies in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/\">film reviews</a>, tips for the best restaurants in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/\">food section</a> and all the latest in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/\">sport</a>. There are plenty more articles exclusively available for Irish Times subscribers <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/subscriber-only/\">here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"25YEAIV2ANCURFX6WY5M6DV27Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1737881309136},"content":"We value your views. Please feel free to send comments, feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@irishtimes.com\">feedback@irishtimes.com</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"IT Sunday: ‘Ireland is awash with cash and the Government has the opportunity to use this to push Ireland forward’"},"display_date":"2025-01-26T09:50:00.376Z","headlines":{"basic":"Storms abound as new Dáil takes office ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT 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is poised to be a year without <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/oscars/\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars</a> glory for Ireland, but Screen Ireland was looking beyond the March 2nd ceremony at the launch of its 2025 slate of more than 80 productions across film, television drama and animation on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5FLVR4T7VCHFEWAQMD7V6KXQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737652522932},"content":"An unlucky hand for best international feature hopeful <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kneecap/\" target=\"_blank\">Kneecap</a>, which was unable to pick up a nomination, does not eradicate the industry’s recent acclaim.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DNV4LJ52BEMFJIWOJSXV3KXZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737652522933},"content":"Speaking in advance of the disappointing showing, Screen Ireland chief executive Désirée Finnegan noted that since 2021, Irish film and talent have won more than 300 international awards and that several films were in contention for an Oscar 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commissioned from Alma Economics showing the wider screen sector boosts the Irish economy by more than €1 billion annually and directly supports the equivalent of about 10,000 jobs, or almost 16,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs if ripple effects are taken into account.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVAIFJPWHFEHDDSKN6ANGI3KJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737655579199},"content":"That report also highlighted year-to-year fluctuations in activity, partly as a result of the pandemic and other global factors, but also because of the outsize impact that a small number of big film productions can have on the Irish figures in any given year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ASCBGB22RVDTHMWNJ5QBBIOO7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"ASKKGR6NERAFDALGHTOCFK2DIY"},"content":"Screen industry boosts Irish economy by €1bn amid ‘drastic’ global change","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3JBT7ODTU5HZXBRGKN4TNQDRDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737655579200},"content":"Screen Ireland’s 2025 slate includes 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This year will also see the renewal of an initiative called The Voice, a concept development fund for projects led from an early stage by the creative vision of the director, while a €500,000 digital games development scheme will be introduced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"76V42E5N4FB2ZKNHRF5LA3REZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737648771407},"content":"“In a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive marketplace, public funding for Irish film and television is now more essential than ever,” said Screen Ireland chairman Ray Harman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Details of upcoming Irish film, television and animation projects announced at event held ahead of underwhelming Oscar 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analysis highlights “fluctuations” in film production from 2021 to 2023, noting that this was a period of post-pandemic rebound globally followed by a pullback in spending and decline in 2023 linked to industry-wide disruptions such as the US writers’ and actors’ strikes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W44F7C6RLVF47IVPFJQ4TI2YCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737567223736},"content":"But it also said that some fluctuations in the Irish sector “cannot be entirely explained by macroeconomic or global industry shocks” and that in smaller markets, production spend can “vary significantly” year to year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNMIPKOL6RCKDA266IQOL3YTPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737567223737},"content":"Film production alone supported 2,625 jobs on a full-time equivalent basis in 2021, with activity boosted by major productions such as The Banshees of Inisherin, Disenchanted and The Last 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It also referenced a need for increased skills development opportunities in the regions, beyond the traditional Dublin-Wicklow industry hub.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNMZCDQLPNFBRAXXGYDP3HOWUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737567223742},"content":"Although the report is focused on a financial analysis of the sector and an assessment of skills, it notes that the audiovisual sector makes “a vast cultural contribution” that extends “far beyond” the economic benefits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Economic analysis commissioned by Screen Ireland finds sector directly supports equivalent of 10,000 jobs amid annual fluctuations and skills gaps"},"display_date":"2025-01-23T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Screen industry boosts Irish economy by €1bn amid ‘drastic’ global change","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"XBE3NRHMAB6YBRGNAWFVR6WLSQ","auth":{"1":"17f36b9d2b343cf1be0e549e47fc6d2e21fc6d4c8b795ef03af769c4dc801db7"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/XBE3NRHMAB6YBRGNAWFVR6WLSQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Culture"},{"name":"Film"},{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/2025/01/23/screen-industry-boosts-irish-economy-by-1bn-amid-drastic-global-change/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"54M23HEHSRHE3LGHEU2E2QWYFQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/01/22/sports-squid-game-push-netflix-to-record-quarter/","content_elements":[{"_id":"OH5WKKNBQZBMJBM7DXSOAD4DWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199948},"content":"Netflix closed 2024 with its biggest quarterly subscriber gain in history, buoyed by its first major live sporting events and the return of Squid Game.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRJSCW7DJ5HOHM5UMWFEEYCH6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199949},"content":"The company added 18.9 million customers in the fourth quarter, according to a shareholder letter Tuesday. 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The company is raising prices in the US, Canada, Portugal and Argentina, with the most popular US plan going to $17.99 a month, an increase of $2.50. Netflix is also increasing the cost of its cheaper advertising-supported plan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCPDUL6PFFDJBN3HJ2NMYCS5FE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199952},"content":"For the year, the company projects revenue of as much as $44.5 billion, a gain of 14 per cent from the year just ended, with an operating margin of 29 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Z35MQM7TBHETEFZZO7LPJF64Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199953},"content":"Shares of the streaming leader rose as much as 15 per cent to $997.85 in extended trading after the results were announced. That would mark a new all-time high if it holds in regular trading on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GL2CGVRVCNBRRF2FPYM7B72NDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199954},"content":"Netflix will stop reporting subscriber figures following a surge in new customers from its crackdown on password sharing. Analysts and investors had expected the benefits from that effort to wear off by now, but Netflix just posted its single best year ever in terms of subscriber additions, netting 41 million new customers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"56UOAYKPSBCM3F43NF47DHNMQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199955},"content":"The company credited a mix of programming, including the hit movie Carry-On and the second season of Squid Game, its most popular series ever. The company said no program accounted for a majority of its additions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"76TBQ2BCY5AX3HDZN476IYEPVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199956},"content":"Yet a boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson delivered a record number of sign-ups for one day, according to the research firm Antenna, dwarfing even Netflix’s first National Football League games. The second of those games featured a halftime performance by Beyoncé.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FXQ3MTONSRD5VFI2546MFMKC7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199957},"content":"“Our newly established live programming slate has already delivered some must-watch moments,” the company wrote in its letter. “Although our live programming will likely be a small percentage of our total view hours and content expense, we think the eventized nature will result in outsized value to both our members and our business.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLPEDB6RT5AKXN7B5GODBUPG5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199958},"content":"Live programming is vital as Netflix builds out its advertising business. The company shows advertising during football and wrestling to all of its members — not just those on the less-expensive, advertising-supported tier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GVM7WBWHZEFBNRLBZNCS543RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199959},"content":"The streaming giant got off to a slow start in advertising and has said it won’t produce material financial benefits until 2026. But it’s starting to make progress. The majority of new customers opt for advertising in the 12 markets where it is available, and the company said it would have enough scale to satisfy advertisers by the end of this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWZ5VSC3MZAYLGMMJLIDR5OKEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199960},"content":"Management has eschewed buying the rights to most major sporting events, arguing they are too expensive. Yet it did license the rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup and is seen as a potential partner for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FYAC2Y4VIZE77NEIX5IC2VTU5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199961},"content":"“We’re constantly trying to broaden our programming,” co-chief executive Ted Sarandos said during an interview with analysts after the results were announced. Netflix has had less success with video games, another new initiative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBK7PKQ53BCAJCJKF34O4MX3GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737531199962},"content":"This quarter, Netflix is forecasting revenue of $10.4 billion and earnings of $5.58 a share, both below the average of Wall Street estimates. 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Burnt-out shells of cars. Block after block of apocalyptic rubble. Clearly, it’s time to do what any sensible person would: send for Mel Gibson.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OMJOJ5Y4FREH5JDUW7TL5G55YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512381},"content":"As red flag fire weather warnings return to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/los-angeles/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles</a> and the city’s most famous industry weighs up how exactly it will make the show go on, over in Washington, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> has a cunning plan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OMA6B3VNBFFHOLLODQS6M3XNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512382},"content":"It’s not a plan to mitigate wildfires as such. “Climate crisis, what climate crisis?” really is a reusable line these days. It’s a proclamation that Hollywood, “a great but very troubled place”, can be forcibly returned to its “golden age” by dispatching Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone to the epicentre of entertainment – somewhere the veteran actors haven’t, for various reasons, been spending too much time of late.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEWOLN5ZFNHF7KJY3JNGIFBZMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512383},"content":"Now that they’re acting – and I use that word loosely – as Trump’s “eyes and ears”, they should be addressed by the title “Mr Ambassador”, the president says, once again zeroing in on the most important matters. This one might require an executive order as Voight’s de facto title in the media these days, whether he likes it or not, is Father of Angelina Jolie.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDKFWFLIJRG75D6G36IKRK3KE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512384},"content":"Will these ready-to-serve diplomats from Trumpville be given White House-appeasing invitations to Hollywood’s most glittering event in six weeks’ time? It feels too soon to speculate. Everything about this year’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/oscars/\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars</a>, from the guest list to the all-important “tone” remains in flux.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUMPUEIHTFGZLGBDF4Z2AIKBNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512385},"content":"Author Stephen King’s conviction that the Academy Awards should be cancelled on taste grounds – “no glitz with Los Angeles on fire” – unsurprisingly has few supporters, even as the Santa Ana winds pick up once more. The problem is that no one can adequately explain how ditching the 97th edition of the ceremony would help anyone. And if the Grammys can go ahead at LA’s Crypto.com Arena on February 2nd, Oscar will be even less inclined to take one for the team.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2X5OUXBENGD7HS3O5CPWI4N7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512386},"content":"The mentality witheringly referred to by King as “the show must go on, blah-blah-blah” is so embedded in Los Angeles, any suggestion it might not be resilient enough to dish out a few gongs has received a fractious response, with The Hollywood Reporter bluntly dismantling a “baseless” name-dropping story in the Sun claiming the Academy was hovering near the cancel button, “on the verge” of pressing it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVDGK72NXVBQVN3C4K2LO6AIGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512387},"content":"This was before King, an Academy member, announced he wouldn’t be voting this year and lamented the Nero-esque spectacle of people “wearing fancy clothes while LA burns”. Still, it is a measure of how inured people have become to stark collisions of celebration and glamour with grief and devastation that the rolling-out of a red carpet not far from the destruction is an incongruity most can tolerate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITBP6WKRY5A3NPU3OF5QHGLKFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512388},"content":"True, the Dolby Theater was last week subject to an evacuation order prompted by the fire on Sunset Boulevard. But that was last week. If I had to guess, the superficiality and backslapping will barely be dialled down at all come March 2nd, just reframed with tacked-on gratitude aimed at firefighters so attendees can fret less about appearing crass.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUWCHJY32ZASLK4IXLL6CKAHXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512389},"content":"Another sensitive dimension when it comes to striking the right balance on the night hinges on the relationship between two interconnected but distinct Hollywoods: the local community and the global industry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PCEXWQS5JFFSZJAYHA3TNJJRSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512390},"content":"The self-mythology of Tinseltown can be potent to drink. It wasn’t until my first visit to LA in 1999 that I understood the extent to which Hollywood was a contemporary place of work in sunny <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/california/\" target=\"_blank\">California</a> and the extent to which it should be considered a historical location turned screen-industry metonym.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PRGGL24F7NDANODKBZ7EZTQXBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512391},"content":"The gates and backlots of Paramount Pictures were present and correct, but not much else was, because even by the 1990s, film and television production was being lured away from LA by financial incentives. The truth is out there, declared Mulder in Vancouver-located The X Files, and so were the Canadian tax credits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEENCZPEWBAWDLPSKOWO3FI7BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512392},"content":"As Trump has bellowed, with unerring accuracy on this occasion, LA has “lost much business” in recent years to international rivals who can do what it does, but cheaper. The glitz has faded. Some local film crew who endured pandemic shutdowns, streamers’ spending downturns and the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes were left struggling to pay mortgages on homes that have now burned down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWXNP6HG3VBPHNF7B5CGWRKIFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512393},"content":"Can there be a happy ending? On the plus side, California’s Democrat governor Gavin Newsom – dubbed “Gavin Newscum” by Trump in a disinformation-spreading wildfires rant – has proposed a doubling of the budget set aside for production incentives. It’s not exactly the stuff of silver-screen magic, but there have also been calls for the LA dream factory to lower the cost of its film permits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APSTOR3UTJF55MCBNUBD2WIE3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512394},"content":"On the downside, Trump, who likes to beat Hollywood at its own game, has indicated he will “probably” drop in on LA soon, presumably to recruit some new executive producers for his administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHSYBYWIDVHYXM5PMKOVRQ4PUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512395},"content":"The Academy says it wants to “bring a sense of healing to our global film community”, glossing over industry fault lines in the name of showbiz unity. The president sees the global film community as a villain and reckons Hollywood, California, can come back “BIGGER, BETTER AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OEHQOGGLLVGTTAWHFMZNL3FSTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737393512396},"content":"As ever, amid these clashing approaches, some suspension of disbelief may be required. It certainly will be if Mr Ambassador wins the Oscar for best original screenplay in 2027.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGHKFP23BVEFZPUNHTCRUFPPXU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"After the wildfires, and amid calls for the ‘glitz’ of the Oscars to be cancelled, the LA entertainment industry is plotting its way forward"},"display_date":"2025-01-21T06:05:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Show must go on in ‘great but very troubled’ Hollywood. 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Cairn Homes Montrose told An Bord Pleanála “there is a high risk of litigation against a future grant of permission, having regard to the history of litigation against a previous permission”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4RW5TMHL5F2PJAHEOWS35YLTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737394417631},"content":"Cairn has stated that it is its experience that decisions subject to judicial review can take up to 18 months. 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In 2020, the word “examine” appeared 68 times; in 2025 there are 86 references to It. There are 120 references to “reviews” in the latest iteration, whereas in 2020 there were 126 such references.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M56BIGX6MNDGPDRGT7AIJW4DPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529066},"content":"There were 13 promises to “explore” various issues five years ago, and 34 such references in the latest version. Given Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil formed the core of both governments a commonality of language is not surprising.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMIIPOWEW5FABBEZ7YXWWABFGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529067},"content":"Another common theme is that, where there is detail in both documents, it is often closely linked to the ‘third party’. The programme for government 2020 had specific proposals around climate change and public transport.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGB4NYJNXFBVDJQDMDSLUCG3YE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529068},"content":"These were put forward by the Green Party and in unambiguous terms. A small sample of such measures are below:","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SHQEA4ZEFAUJOPQ5SRFAHAFB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529069},"content":"• Ban the sale of new and the importation of second-hand petrol and diesel cars from 2030","type":"text"},{"_id":"OR7BKDZYFRCNLKKTFGDE2XRRZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529070},"content":"• Retrofit 500,000 homes by 2030","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBTYH5X4ZVDHBNVHO2QVMCEHYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529071},"content":"• Extend the Smoky Coal ban to new towns","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SDICUFYLRB4FB3EZJZTOZKX2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529072},"content":"• Legislate for e-scooters and e-bikes","type":"text"},{"_id":"7NNCB2FH4BCV5IAQAEMY4NSRHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529073},"content":"• Increase the carbon tax to 100 euro per tonne by 2030","type":"text"},{"_id":"2F7YG56QSNHQPNJKIZURJZOXGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529074},"content":"Not a consider, review, assess or develop among them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BT2N63GHD5CR3PPEADZY4FAGGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529075},"content":"As Cliff Taylor points out this weekend, in the 2025 programme for government too, the firmer commitments tend to be in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/18/i-counted-276-new-spending-promises-in-the-programme-for-government-this-is-delusional/\" target=\"_blank\">areas of interest to the Independents</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTGNEHFMWFEIDKBKHH5742E3S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529076},"content":"In a coalition compromises are inevitable. From the starting point of their election manifestos, the programme for government text sees many promises watered down. Yet, when both programmes for governments are looked at, the extent to which smaller parties appear to provide some of the sharpest detail is notable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NDVSLATGJA7LMVGNV5AJ3BEPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529077},"content":"This may be because smaller parties realise they likely have just one term to make an impact. Larger parties may take a longer-term view. Another notable aspect is the oscillating focus from plan to plan when it comes to some of the most pressing issues facing the State, particularly climate change.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7CX4TZP6ZHLTAMKKSNRAJVQ6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529078},"content":"Such a shift in focus appears political as the urgency and pressures in this area have only grown in the intervening five years. Whatever the reasons for the vagueness in the language and the wide range of issues referenced, such a format has two consequences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKONROC4SBES3ACN4DOAYKD6RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529079},"content":"Firstly, the average voter will find it difficult if not impossible to sit down before the next election and form a view as to whether many of objectives within it were broadly achieved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLTDXGVYRJED5KL2B3SHNB3JZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529080},"content":"Secondly, the wide range of issues include in the programme coupled with the lack of specific targets in many cases means it is hard to discern priorities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGGIXQVH4VECNIGZ5ZFGU4CWB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529081},"content":"As Taylor points out this weekend, there appears to be “276 new spending promises in the incoming coalition’s programme for government” – even when you allow for the vagueness of the wording making it unclear at times if there is a commitment to action.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YEBN5FSSTRDBTEMDE4STKKNMOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529082},"content":"However, here too the vagueness continues with an absence of significant new revenue raising measures which strongly hints that the new government is expecting the current bumper corporation tax revenues to continue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDMT74AO4RBXXG2D3RWTB6MMM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529083},"content":"As Taylor notes, the outgoing Government had a strong record of managing the economy and the new administration starts in a strong fiscal position. “However, the outgoing Coalition’s record on investment and improved service delivery ranged from patchy to poor”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNHCOYILRJB7JMTP22WQFGTPGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737284529084},"content":"The challenge for the new government will be to turn this wide range of vague proposals into tangible, swift progress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EBCVWIZMGNB37BECEUGBP5DGNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398905},"content":"Five Key Reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"TA6LWMQQXBDGXIQWUDY5Q4QKLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398906},"content":"1) There is plenty of doom-mongering about what a Trump presidency would mean for Ireland. But what is really at stake when the business man turned politician begins his second-term? Cliff Taylor <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/16/how-will-donald-trump-really-impact-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">walks us through what Ireland can expect from the new administration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEWQXZ4IPNAODDJV6LLV7Z6XFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398907},"content":"2) Earlier this month we reported on the partial collapse of a house in Inchicore <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/01/06/dublin-couple-fear-home-set-to-fall-into-camac-river-after-wall-collapses/\" target=\"_blank\">into the river Camac</a>. This week, Olivia Kelly and Sarah Burns <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/01/15/hundreds-of-dublin-homes-at-risk-of-damage-after-partial-collapse-of-house-into-river-camac/\" target=\"_blank\">report that hundreds of Dublin homes are potentially at risk of damage</a>, according to a senior Dublin City Council engineer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCLSYGKPI5H3FNGDZR5JVO3PIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398908},"content":"3) The programme for government is a sprawling 162 pages covering the incoming coalition’s plans for every department and policy area across the next five years. But what jumps out? <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/01/15/main-points-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-new-programme-for-government/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Horgan-Jones takes a look at the main points</a> from climate measures to childcare and policing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOVRCZYYYZDTBDH6TQGBZ7GKUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398909},"content":"4) Sheila Wayman this week spoke to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/galway/\">Galway </a>nurse Aoife Commins, who believes that as a white, heterosexual woman who is knowledgeable about sexual health, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-wellness/2025/01/14/aoife-was-diagnosed-with-hiv-in-australia-in-2020-he-was-unknowingly-positive-we-had-no-idea/\" target=\"_blank\">she is an example of how becoming HIV-positive can happen to anyone</a>. Aoife knew that although HIV is not curable, it is now a treatable condition and she could expect to live a long and healthy life with it. However, she did fear the stigma she might face.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVTO2T6NWBBW3P3SO2CNCW3X5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398910},"content":"5) Plans to introduce modern foreign languages in a new curriculum for all primary schools could “dilute the status of Irish”, according to some educators. The concerns are outlined in a consultation report by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, which <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2025/01/13/plan-to-introduce-foreign-languages-at-primary-level-could-divert-time-from-irish/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl O’Brien reports on here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZL25FHI3NFEGJG2J2YCWKCRYYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737113398911},"content":"In this week’s On the Money newsletter, Dominic writes about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/17/dont-leave-prsi-benefits-on-the-table-they-can-save-you-thousands-of-euro/\" target=\"_blank\">how your PRSI benefits can save you thousands</a> of euro. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com//newsletters/on-the-money-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here</a> to receive the newsletter straight to your inbox every Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCCUEUV45BECTPYMZCQBSJJ42I","additional_properties":{"_id":1737105403157},"content":"As always, there is much more on <a href=\"http://irishtimes.com/\">irishtimes.com</a>, including rundowns of all the latest movies in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/\">film reviews</a>, tips for the best restaurants in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/\">food section</a> and all the latest in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/\">sport</a>. There are plenty more articles exclusively available for Irish Times subscribers <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/subscriber-only/\">here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7GXOG2MYFBUNJTLN2AS2SXZBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737105403158},"content":"We value your views. Please feel free to send comments, feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@irishtimes.com\">feedback@irishtimes.com</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Flicking through the new programme for government similarities with its predecessor from 2020 are clear"},"display_date":"2025-01-19T11:17:51.965Z","headlines":{"basic":"Challenge for government is to turn proposals into progress ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT Sunday"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OS6VZF26CH47CDVT6ABAJNCY4U","auth":{"1":"5ab62703ca4d5acdf27f4dc236969f4cbc71375a7b21ce02c45bfde560f91d46"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OS6VZF26CH47CDVT6ABAJNCY4U.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/01/19/challenge-for-government-is-to-turn-proposals-into-progress/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"A5L3DIKIDZCNVI4KGJNUDVYJWA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":180,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/59db2634-6bcc-4790-8dd5-c89087389b38/versions/1737139685/media/7d41a8db98df7c0d11b3b130ae892a18_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/01/17/is-tiktoks-us-shutdown-any-more-than-a-game-of-musical-chairs-among-chinese-apps/","content_elements":[{"_id":"FBDCPV7MQFGWJBNXZBY66WYXPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737123250664},"content":"The great <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tiktok/\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok</a> shutdown is looming in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\">United States</a>. On Friday, the US supreme court <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/17/us-supreme-court-upholds-divest-or-ban-law-targeting-tiktok/\" target=\"_blank\">said it would uphold a divest-or-ban law</a> that targeted the ByteDance-owned platform. The company is facing a deadline of January 19th to separate its US business from its Chinese owners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFXTQ4JUGBGVVA3EWDR5BQT3UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737137438221},"content":"The supreme court has done its part. Now it is up to the government to enforce, if they have the political will to do so. Outgoing president Joe Biden, who signed the law that gives effect to the ban, has said he will leave it to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a>. Whether the new president will do so, however, is unclear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GQCCGU5HRGMPIQ4KUMMQD2DBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737137438222},"content":"Trump wasn’t always so opaque on the subject. Once in favour of a total ban, he signed an executive order to do so but was prevented from carrying it out by a court. In the past year, Trump has changed his tune. In March 2024, he came out against a ban on the app.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPNESZ4DX5BWXFH26OSHWY7XMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737138470757},"content":"The chief reason for the U-turn appeared at the time to be his animosity towards Meta chief executive <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Zuckerberg</a>, who was considered an enemy of the Maga state. A ban on TikTok would lead to a boost in business for its rivals, Zuckerberg included.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSLEIVGEKFD7PBNILNI57NBLRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737137438223},"content":"Less than a year on, that view has changed. The Facebook founder, who recently announced his <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2025/01/07/meta-to-end-third-party-fact-checking-programme/\" target=\"_blank\">platforms would stop fact checking</a> in the US, gutted diversity initiatives and made some questionable choices around what language it will or won’t allow, has been a return visitor to Mar-a-Lago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFXTQ4JUGBGVVA3EWDR5BQT3UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737137438224},"content":"Both Zuckerberg and his erstwhile sparring partner <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a> have been touted as possible buyers for TikTok’s US business. But ByteDance has always been clear: TikTok is not for sale. Nor is its algorithm, arguably the most valuable part of the whole shebang.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O2LSKHEQFC27AWBQR5FFRZYY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1737138470760},"content":"Earlier this week, sources said ByteDance was preparing to shut off the app in the US if the ban was upheld.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HYX75KKEZJGJXHQKV4NWG42W4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1737137438225},"content":"The US is not TikTok’s biggest market, although it is a profitable one for the company. It has 170 million users in the US, out of a total monthly active user base of more than one billion at the last count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VECR4KAX6BAAPIAMCI6TT2HJIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737123250666},"content":"Many of those users are already looking for an alternative home. But rather than Instagram or X, they are landing on RedNote, a Chinese app that may find itself suffering the same fate as TikTok given its ownership, or Lemon8, which ironically is also owned by ByteDance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDQTTLNGNZEZHAUOQDOHCZOSJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737138470763},"content":"It seems that the US might simply be swapping one app for another, and all the problems that go with it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSNEKINYZNGYDIWUBNU7SFUN7Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cantillon"}},"name":"Richard Cantillon"}]},"description":{"basic":"After the US supreme court upheld a ban on the video app unless it sheds its Chinese owners, a final decision on action rests with politicians"},"display_date":"2025-01-17T18:25:21.808Z","headlines":{"basic":"Is TikTok’s US shutdown any more than a game of musical chairs among Chinese apps?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"Z62PAOWIZRI5WIF3ZR5BTM5AGA","auth":{"1":"5e5e5687f04dada6d40f9630fa27bb8776de37ff7d35b29873d243ef7f83cab1"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/Z62PAOWIZRI5WIF3ZR5BTM5AGA.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Media"},{"name":"Technology"},{"name":"Big Tech"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/2025/01/17/is-tiktoks-us-shutdown-any-more-than-a-game-of-musical-chairs-among-chinese-apps/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"RPZLG5EE5JAUNATNJQ4PBMWMRA","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/01/17/ida-head-told-to-play-down-extent-of-far-right-protests/","content_elements":[{"_id":"C6WNV3CDYBCI5NBM3TP74XEUBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179524},"content":"A briefing for the head of the IDA Ireland said the agency was prepared to work with any political party, including Sinn Féin, and that the Irish media were disproportionately reporting on protests and disturbances caused by the far right.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K225L6JYE5DNVEALGUUM3FP6EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179525},"content":"Q&As prepared for chief executive Michael Lohan in advance of a UK media tour explained how the IDA was an agency of the State and would work with any political party elected to government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GY2HOXKYWFBQFCQOAVULO6BI3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179526},"content":"The IDA oversees and supports foreign direct investment to Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQ5OD6HBNRASPELUIRCVVNLEZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179527},"content":"The briefings were prepared last autumn in advance of the November general election. They said Mr Lohan needed to be ready for questions on housing shortages, Ireland’s neutrality and rising anti-immigration sentiment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLMVLVKZKBADDFMZENLY5QYVRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179528},"content":"On the explosion in anti-immigrant hostility, the briefing said Ireland had always been a welcoming place but that housing and infrastructure pressures were being felt nationwide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNVS5ZX2W5F2HG7JLXMM4GEOKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179529},"content":"“Unfortunately when such pressures occur, it provides an opportunity for a small number of right-wing extremists to exploit the situation for their own cause,” the Q&A said. “And unfortunately, the media disproportionately report on any protests or disturbances presenting the wrong impression.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PCJ4Y2AWJASPPE2BAHWZ3FSOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179531},"content":"On the shortage of homes, the advisory said a growing economy with rapid population increase had inevitably led to “significant housing pressure”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTZWUD2BDBDHXKREVPPMOOSZXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179532},"content":"“Our population has grown by 10 per cent to 5.1 million,” said the briefing. “Thankfully, the population growth is spread across different regions of the country, which is very welcome from an FDI [foreign direct investment] perspective. 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Queries about job losses in the tech sector were also considered likely with the IDA briefing on “increasing economic headwinds” and a “more conservative outlook”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XHGFPQKU6VC2HPOO6JTR6OSVHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179542},"content":"“Nevertheless, in many cases, lay-offs being implemented in Ireland are proportionally less than in sister sites around the world,” it added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3QT2M64FNBWPNS4MXWD6D243E","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179543},"content":"A separate briefing explored what to say in response to Donald Trump’s proposals around the introduction of tariffs. In the documents, the IDA chief executive was reminded of a “golf handicap analogy” to use, which was not explained in detail in the notes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WAYRM5G7E5BIRL6Q5YLO66LQAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179544},"content":"However, the Q&A did say: “While the belief may be that you’re protecting your own economy, ultimately you could be hindering its growth because historically tariffs lead to tit-for-tat reactions which can quickly spiral into trade wars which is not in any country’s interest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3YYI5DQPFA7LCO62ZZHPOSQ6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1737128179545},"content":"Asked about the records, the IDA said it had nothing further to add to the contents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Ken Foxe"}]},"description":{"basic":"In briefing notes, chief executive Michael Lohan advised to be on guard for questions about Big Tech subsidies"},"display_date":"2025-01-17T13:30:06.048Z","headlines":{"basic":"IDA Ireland head told to play down extent of far right protests","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"ZCUQQ26A6VCAFCTVY6G6FJC3VU","auth":{"1":"a7131b30740122f5d90477983d42ba7fc2467787d66286edde8557e46726c456"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZCUQQ26A6VCAFCTVY6G6FJC3VU.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Economy"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/2025/01/17/ida-head-told-to-play-down-extent-of-far-right-protests/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/economy","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Economy"}}}},{"_id":"RJDMDMNJNNGONBOZIWQVG7RRLE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":161,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/772541a4-e33c-4cad-9383-783f7e44a23e/versions/1736963276/media/e55ed184504092aff0d592ce707b9458_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/01/16/time-to-unfriend-lawyer-responds-to-metas-descent/","content_elements":[{"_id":"BYHF3CKEQNCLPGANCDYSKWJ5FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811754},"content":"The first three posts in Stanford law professor Mark Lemley’s four-post Bluesky thread on his feelings about Meta’s Trumpist makeover could have been anyone talking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YYDVTPGJQ5CNHBAQAI64C2NYWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811755},"content":"He was struggling with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness”, he wrote. While he thought about quitting the Meta-owned social media app, he still saw “great value” in the connections and friends he had on it, and it didn’t seem fair that he should lose it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IXLHOIUB7NFN7GMRFMJHHP2FPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811756},"content":"But though he decided to stay on Facebook, he will be deactivating his Threads account, he added. The app, which Meta launched in 2023 as a competitor to Elon Musk’s deteriorating Twitter (now X), just isn’t necessary was his conclusion: “Bluesky is an outstanding alternative to Twitter, and the last thing I need is to support a Twitter-like site run by a Musk wannabe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNQMC3XTWJCY7PAO67FJH7UHB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811757},"content":"This, plus an additional declaration that he will not purchase directly from adverts he sees on Facebook or Instagram, still seemed like the standard thinking-out-loud any Meta user could have done after Zuckerberg’s embrace of “masculine energy”, his rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) workplace policies and his gutting of US content moderation to adapt to the anything-goes Trump era.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGSAXDPBDFCYRGJB2UP4QRH77E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811758},"content":"The punchline came in the fourth post: “I have fired Meta as a client.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLYPF7X2X5FBBAWOWNAU4DREPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"C274DWGJGRHAVL7MAG5LUTWNI4"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-25203","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3QN4QE3PSVAZFISI2OJPIVST3M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lemley had been among the lawyers representing the company in a high-profile AI copyright case since 2023, acting on its behalf as plaintiffs including comedian Sarah Silverman, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors sued it for training its generative AI systems on copyrighted books.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCUNG4A6PBFB5JHDGEZYTI4DRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811760},"content":"Lemley — who represented Meta through his role as a partner in Lex Lumina, a firm largely comprising other academics — still thinks Meta is “on the right side” of the dispute and hopes it will win the case. But it will do so without his help as he “cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMU4CMMKOJGU7D7GU22QIXH7PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736959811761},"content":"Meta, for sure, won’t be shy of lawyers, for this or any other case. Still, Lemley’s principled stance is a reminder that not everybody has to go along with Zuckerberg’s new direction — and not everybody will. The Facebook founder may have gained new friends, but he has been unfriended, too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSNEKINYZNGYDIWUBNU7SFUN7Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cantillon"}},"name":"Richard Cantillon"}]},"description":{"basic":"Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience"},"display_date":"2025-01-16T06:15:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Time to unfriend? 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But those days are over now. “I think having a culture that, like, celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2XHCAWOJ2FGQJORYJ3HVWLTDBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003755},"content":"Don’t worry, Zuckerberg still spares a thought for women. He’s married to a woman. Also, he has three sisters and three daughters, he makes sure to mention, because just the fact of having female family members always humanises a man. Everyone knows that the more usefully related women a man can cite, the more immunity he gains should accusations of sexism fly in his direction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQW4PHBY4NGBPGPOKXXH7EVTFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003756},"content":"Not that they are. The billionaire began his tech career by rating the attractiveness of women at Harvard, but it would be a mistake to assume he lacks empathy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVM5BKLCWJARPHLPPDRQUS3LIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003757},"content":"“I do think that if you’re a woman going into a company, it probably feels like it’s too masculine. It’s like there isn’t enough of the kind of energy that you may naturally have,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QWPGEPPERFONGWDCN6ZEJZP5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003758},"content":"Tragically, as he then explains, corporate culture has swung to thinking masculine energy is something to “get rid of” completely – an erasure he only realised was happening after he took up jiu-jitsu.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6X26BOMZABBCXC3O5O37EMGXGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003759},"content":"He’s right, of course. Masculine energy has all but disappeared from the workplace. Maybe it’s because men haven’t been leaning in enough? But it’s not their fault. The world just isn’t celebrating “the aggression” enough right now. Aggression has a bad press.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NVS5E3DJKJABZGXRTZ6JHMSUBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003760},"content":"As for the direct equation of aggression with masculine energy, well, those were Zuck’s words not mine. As a woman, it wouldn’t be the kind of energy I naturally have to say something a man might perceive as criticism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4VH4SMJENBWRAKFFLIGXWNKVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003761},"content":"Zuckerberg has had a lot to say lately, and not just because he found himself on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-rogan/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan</a>’s podcast again. It’s called The Joe Rogan Experience, because it is one. You don’t slide behind the mic on The Joe Rogan Experience and expect a quick in-and-out job. It’s the best part of three hours or nothing. It’s a proper man’s podcast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ACIWHWLMDVG2VLIP7ZVCNQ4USA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003762},"content":"Radiating manly stamina is not compulsory on Rogan – occasionally, he even has women guests – but it does help. It helps, too, if you’ve got literal fighting talk in your conversational arsenal. A little obsession with mixed martial arts (MMA) here, a passion for hunting invasive pigs in Hawaii there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KB7HUT5RYVDPHLNJI46TOBZ7TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003763},"content":"That’s because Rogan, an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) commentator before he became a podcaster, is a key narrator in the MMA-MAGA universe, and Zuckerberg is the newest member of the gang.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4ZOJLUN4VGVJDDIIJTNY6YCLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003764},"content":"Let’s remind ourselves of some of the protagonists here, starting with Dana White, the UFC chief executive and freshly installed Meta director. White has been hanging out with president-elect <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> forever now. At an ally-stuffed post-election UFC fight in New York in November, the man hailed by Zuckerberg as an “amazing entrepreneur” was joined by disinformation spreader-in-chief <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a> as they formed the bread in a Trump sandwich.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPCPNNF4INHRNCXE6PHSVKQKUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003765},"content":"Hollywood power-player Ari Emanuel, the Democrat donor who was once Trump’s agent, also rocked up. He’s the boss of Endeavor, the majority shareholder in sports media behemoth TKO Group, which since a 2023 merger has been the owner of both UFC and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2USVZXJC5EDBONR3L6AKGB4ZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003766},"content":"This brings us on to former wrestler and ex-WWE boss Linda McMahon, Trump’s nominee to lead the US department of education – to where, exactly, is unclear – and her estranged husband, Vince McMahon, who resigned as TKO Group executive chairman in January 2024 to spend more time with his lawyers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGTV3OLPYVFM5LQFHN4TSWGELA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003767},"content":"He still has a sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit to fend off, though he has just settled Securities and Exchange Commission charges brought over some “minor accounting errors”, aka undisclosed hush money payments to two women.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOU66DE2FBBVXHS7GKKJT4SBVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003768},"content":"I’m glossing over some of the flashpoints and factional nuances within this politico-entertainment complex because, to be honest, I haven’t been keeping track of them. Still, it will surprise no one that TKO Group is super-keen to do business with the kings of masculine energy, Saudi Arabia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNIVYCJQFVBBFGWICGMUD2JD3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003769},"content":"Its other imminent bonanza is the UFC’s next US television rights negotiation, given its current deal with Disney-owned ESPN is happily set to expire at the end of 2025.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VN4ERFAOUZBZRJTOU7UEXNZ6GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003770},"content":"This one is going to be mega. Lots of people love UFC. Even more importantly, Trump loves White, and lots of media and tech bosses want Trump to love them. Someone like, say, Amazon founder <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jeff-bezos/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos</a> could easily be moved to throw about sufficient billions to snatch the rights off naughty-step occupants Disney and make Prime Video the home of UFC.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZXSNQITQRAWNMH6CZNSZOVWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003771},"content":"That’s not to say that Netflix is out for the count. This time last year, it splurged “in excess of $5 billion” for decade-long rights to weekly three-hour WWE show Raw. Competing hard for UFC could be its next big swing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77FWKGYQS5CYHEZS2HFAWYLSLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003772},"content":"Meanwhile, the other key line from Zuckerberg’s podcast foray is that he still wants to do a professional MMA fight “at some point”. Back in 2023, after Musk challenged him to a cage fight, the Facebook founder “offered a real date”, only to conclude from Musk’s excuses that he wasn’t “serious” and it was “time to move on”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NH3MWXE6KJGI3JOV77BQTWVO2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003773},"content":"But is it? That gap in the inauguration entertainment schedule isn’t going to fill itself. A livestreamed MMA-White House crossover event, with Rogan commentating, is the obvious answer. A newly sworn-in Trump could enjoy a great old smirk as Musk and Zuck try their luck at gladiatorial combat, the winner getting Canada.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNAVUOG5JJEKNLEB5GBO7JQ6FQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736791003774},"content":"True, Musk might be reluctant, but the Meta mogul would surely embrace this unique opportunity to give masculine energy the global celebration it deserves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGHKFP23BVEFZPUNHTCRUFPPXU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical step"},"display_date":"2025-01-14T06:15:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"More masculine energy? 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Meta, he announced, will no longer pay teams of fact-checkers to identify misleading information. It will also relax its regulations on the levels of abuse – personal or political – that are permitted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIQKIFBRKRDJDBBVMX7V5O2IXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147805},"content":"Anyone who uses social media will be aware that whatever fact-checking or content moderation rules were in place up to this week did not prevent false or misleading material or toxic abuse appearing regularly on these sites. And Zuckerberg has acknowledged that this sort of content will increase.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LM4TUD2L6RDRDI2FC3LHTB4KWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147806},"content":"We are now almost two decades into the social media age. It has given many people great pleasure, allowing them to maintain connections with friends and loved ones. Many more have found it a valuable information resource.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXI63FFLTBDORDYSSRKQLQ6KAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147807},"content":"However, it has also become an unprecedented and powerful amplifier of lies, false conspiracy theories, propaganda and accidental or deliberate misinformation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFXH2YF4NZCCLBONRQT5VZCFQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147808},"content":"For those of us working in professional journalism, the rise of social media has served to highlight the importance of the ethical and editorial standards we are required to uphold every day. These include not publishing any assertion of fact unless it has been verified by a reliable source. If we do inadvertently publish inaccurate information, we undertake to correct it as promptly as possible. We are committed to upholding standards of fairness and balance by offering anyone who is the subject of our journalism the opportunity to respond. In our publishing processes, we endeavour to distinguish clearly between factual reporting and opinion pieces. And we promise that we are not beholden to any sectoral or commercial interest. As we are owned by a Trust, we have no billionaire proprietor interfering in editorial decisions and we are free to pursue the stories that matter even when – especially when – the most powerful people in society seek to stand in our way. In The Irish Times, we are also committed to respecting the individual rights and dignity of everyone we cover and to be particularly attentive to the rights of minorities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLCWLXDBZFFOBFA3QGMTYUW7FM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147809},"content":"I can personally assure you that I see these principles being put into practice every day by Irish Times journalists as they go about their work of planning, commissioning, writing and editing articles, producing videos, photographs and podcasts and designing pages. We see ourselves as accountable in the first instance to our readers and subscribers, but we also account for our work within a broader professional and regulatory structure that upholds the rights of readers and the broader public via the Press Council and Press Ombudsman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4X7O76YJFEFHDYBSKXAKY3MXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147810},"content":"Like any publisher, we sometimes get it wrong. We’re far from perfect. But the contrast with the unaccountable, unregulated and often anonymous social media content with which we are all familiar is obvious. To say this is not to be critical of any particular individual who posts or consumes that content. It’s simply to draw your attention to the importance of professional and ethical journalism at the end of a week when overall standards of public discourse have taken another grievous blow. And to thank you as a subscriber for helping to make it possible for us to produce our award-winning journalism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VET65VSJTNBC3IKSLCC6OUOX3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147811},"content":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2QPNZQWZZEZNHXOD7RZ2DC34A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147812},"content":"Editor","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKFUIAM45RAFNNLMMBZGWT4HEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736535147813},"content":"Five key reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"LIQLCM6G3FANPJFPXB3F24H67A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507701489},"content":"1) <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/09/will-trump-power-the-dollar-to-parity-and-beyond-against-the-euro/\" target=\"_blank\">Could one US dollar soon be worth more than one euro?</a> The dollar has only been worth more than €1 a handful of times in the history of the single European currency – on a few occasions between 2000 and 2002 and then in mid 2022, writes Cliff Taylor. Now forecasters believe it may be about to happen again. What does this mean for Ireland?","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUCLUC3RGJEB3KOI3LXXFBMNRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736509839472},"content":"2) The Government’s new hot meals scheme looks like a progressive move towards stamping out food poverty in Ireland. But questions have been raised about the quality of the service. Ruth Hegarty, a food policy consultant and lecturer in food policy at University College Cork, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/01/09/hot-school-meals-scheme-a-progressive-government-policy-set-to-put-childrens-health-at-risk/\" target=\"_blank\">looked into the nutrition content of the food offered through the scheme</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6L2CYTKAFDEZB4F5RUOKKAGUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736509839473},"content":"3) A Workplace Relations Commission ruling is the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/08/wrc-ruling-is-final-nail-in-coffin-of-the-right-to-remote-working/\" target=\"_blank\">final nail in the coffin of the right to remote working, writes John McManus.</a> He looks at the case of Javier Osorio, who requested a hybrid work model “where I can work remotely from home most days and come to the office a maximum of two days a week”. The ruling leaves workers to balance home and family life, along with the costs, by themselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTAR4FOHXRFABE2JLMLS3DNVZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736509839474},"content":"4) As more hotels and office blocks rise up,<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/01/08/as-more-hotels-and-office-blocks-rise-up-where-are-dublins-promised-cultural-spaces/\" target=\"_blank\"> where are Dublin’s promised cultural spaces? </a>asks Chris McCormack. The capital has entrusted commercial ventures with a chunk of its cultural future but some of the earmarked facilities are sitting empty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHNO5WSFMVHYXGGFR5TI6KDXUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736509839475},"content":"5) The glacial pace of the reform of laws shows <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2025/01/10/matt-williams-glacial-pace-of-reform-of-laws-shows-oligarchs-remain-in-control-of-world-rugby/\" target=\"_blank\">oligarchs remain in control of the World Rugby, writes Matt Williams</a>. Last November there was great hope in the rugby community that many positive new laws would be approved. By December it was clear that the majority of these much-needed reforms had been quashed. On January 1st this year a disappointingly low number of minor law changes came into play.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNK45NJJPBCBDDISZPMSTUG4UY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507701490},"content":"In<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/10/here-are-12-easy-steps-to-cut-the-cost-of-your-summer-holiday/\" target=\"_blank\"> this week’s On the Money newsletter</a>, Conor Pope examines 12 easy ways to cut the cost or your summer holiday. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com//newsletters/on-the-money-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here</a> to receive the newsletter straight to your inbox every Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCCUEUV45BECTPYMZCQBSJJ42I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507667006},"content":"<i>As always, there is much more on </i><a href=\"http://irishtimes.com/\"><i>irishtimes.com</i></a><i>, including rundowns of all the latest movies in our </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/\"><i>film reviews</i></a><i>, tips for the best restaurants in our </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/\"><i>food section</i></a><i> and all the latest in </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/\"><i>sport</i></a><i>. There are plenty more articles exclusively available for Irish Times subscribers </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/subscriber-only/\"><i>here</i></a><i>.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7GXOG2MYFBUNJTLN2AS2SXZBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507667007},"content":"<i>We value your views. Please feel free to send comments, feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered to </i><a href=\"mailto:feedback@irishtimes.com\"><i>feedback@irishtimes.com</i></a><i>.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic"}},"name":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic"}]},"description":{"basic":"As we are owned by a Trust, we have no billionaire proprietor interfering in editorial decisions and we are free to pursue the stories that matter even when - especially when - the most powerful people in society seek to stand in our way"},"display_date":"2025-01-12T08:38:36.892Z","headlines":{"basic":"Message from the Editor: A week that highlighted the value of fair, ethical and independent journalism","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"IT Sunday"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"53Q3DXJWZ2XEDRGV44HYOR3QFY","auth":{"1":"708fb943c7ccc7c90177c97500c1571388e0fd91174a8ff266aaf2a45bdab6bb"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/53Q3DXJWZ2XEDRGV44HYOR3QFY.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Media"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/media/2025/01/12/message-from-the-editor-a-week-that-highlighted-the-value-of-fair-ethical-and-independent-journalism/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/media","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Media"}}}},{"_id":"KMLSA4RTZBEDXO525UYNFCWTTM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/media/2025/01/10/toy-show-and-sport-top-list-of-most-watched-tv-of-2024-but-where-is-all-the-drama-and-comedy/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QNMBPGKVZNFUVJ6GYSYTWLGB44","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659100},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQVYXV7Y6VAS5EMXZIXISLGWKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736509225860},"content":"The Late Late Toy Show once again topped the list of the most-watched television last year and was the only non-sport programme in a top 10 completed by the Ireland men’s rugby team, the two big GAA finals and England’s defeat to Spain in Euro 2024.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCOP667EPZCCXMVBSF6NOYF4WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659101},"content":"RTÉ's festive phenomenon had a tally of 1,525,800 viewers on RTÉ One alone, according to consolidated figures released by industry body TAM Ireland and research company Nielsen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UY2ELYBVQBDAFEU32HNBMHFQHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659102},"content":"This linear audience was down 50,000 on the comparable audience for Patrick Kielty’s first outing on the show the year before, but separate RTÉ-released figures indicate that its 622,000 streams on the RTÉ Player were up by more than 70,000, suggesting there has been no net decline in popularity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCL3Y5GQBFCTFITO74FUZVJUAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659103},"content":"For the first time since 2018, the All-Ireland senior hurling final attracted more viewers than the football final.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YQMAAA4N5EVPBSZXFR45UWSLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659104},"content":"Clare v Cork was watched by an average of 1,046,100 people on RTÉ2 and was in third place overall, with the Armagh v Galway football final in sixth with 889,600. The viewing figures in all cases are for the Republic of Ireland’s television market only and player streams are excluded.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUUSERJVIFD2LKXHEQ7NJRJWGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659105},"content":"Spain v England, the final of Uefa Euro 2024 in July, was fifth, with 918,100 viewers watching Spain win 2-1 over Gareth Southgate’s team as they vied to win their first major tournament since 1966.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OS2FM5D2TFAR5A6T23T6LZRBNY","additional_properties":{"_id":"4M7F6XMXVFAPXPZEYYCAPVI2DA"},"content":"<div style=\"min-height:994px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-WX2OT\"><script type=\"text/javascript\" defer src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WX2OT/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-WX2OT\"><\/script><noscript><img src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WX2OT/full.png\" alt=\"Table shows the most watched TV programmes in Ireland in 2024\" /></noscript></div><\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"FG6NZKY5WRC6NAHXWHXSQ4YAAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659106},"content":"But rugby dominated the top 10, with Ireland’s emphatic victory over France in the Six Nations back in February second only to the Toy Show, garnering 1,077,200 viewers for Virgin Media One.","type":"text"},{"_id":"72AG4NY5QFHBPL5AW6EJTNRSBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659107},"content":"There were four other Six Nations fixtures in the top 10, with a dramatic England v Ireland game at Twickenham coming fourth with 974,400 viewers on RTÉ2.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7T6HEZXBFRGEZOPB3MAB345VRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"QCAE5PDJCRCEVMUS4TZCIVDZRA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FG6NZKY5WRC6NAHXWHXSQ4YAAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659106},"content":"Ireland’s game against Italy was seventh with 885,900 viewers on Virgin Media One, while the Scotland game was eighth with 874,700 viewers on the same channel. The game against Wales, shown on RTÉ2, was close behind in ninth spot with an audience of 872,400.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FKTQXXCQNREPFC2XRMGPFMLC5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659109},"content":"Rugby also occupied 10th position in the list, with Ireland vs New Zealand in the autumn nations series bringing in 870,300 viewers to Virgin Media One.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXLZBZNB2BGZ3IPGJXMG4HWNDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659110},"content":"Overall, sport accounted for 32 of the top 50 most-watched programmes of last year, with that number including the rain-soaked opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris (44th with 448,800 viewers on RTÉ2).","type":"text"},{"_id":"WS22FAZZHNCMFDIUBKUMIUYOPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736508789121},"content":"The most-watched Paris 2024 programme was in 22nd with 575,100 viewers on RTÉ2, but as the figures are averages, with viewing spread across several hours, this doesn’t capture how individual Olympic events draw in massive audiences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5BO53J2RVVDXNL5IDNBA6RJBHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736512717152},"content":"RTÉ noted that the viewership for Kellie Harrington’s gold-winning fight peaked at 1.4 million; Rhasidat Adeleke’s women’s 400m final peaked at 926,000; and the Irish women’s 4 x 400m final peaked at 910,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWJHOPV5RVCJJJSL4UMFN2BMVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736508789122},"content":"The dominance of sport, however, is assisted by the fact that only the most-watched episode of a particular programme is included in the list, but most sporting events are individually titled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVCEG73625BBLDXFOOIYMPPKVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659112},"content":"<b>Entertainment, news and scripted</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"5NHYOQF77RF6HA4HTDCN3DKC64","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659113},"content":"After the Late Late Toy Show, the biggest non-sport show of the year was the most-watched episode of I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQ32B4ASJFFNRCQF4RO3KELTDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659114},"content":"The reality series, an ITV import, won 681,500 viewers for Virgin Media One and was in 13th place, up from 34th and 508,500 viewers in 2023. Its popularity was likely swelled in 2024 by the participation of Coleen Rooney, who came second behind Danny Jones from the band McFly, as well as Love Island’s Maura Higgins, one of three Irish contestants in a strong line-up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q64WHWMSIVDFRNPS3Q337PQ5JA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659115},"content":"After not appearing at all in the 2023 list, the Eurovision Song Contest also enjoyed better fortunes last year, with Ireland’s first qualification for the grand final since 2018, courtesy of Bambie Thug’s Doomsday Blue, boosting its audience on RTÉ One to 674,200, putting it in 14th place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZDWM5REVNFDFDSBD3GDXLNCXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659116},"content":"Other notable programmes across the top 50 include RTÉ lifestyle behemoth Room to Improve, with the Dermot Bannon show’s most-watched episode in 16th place, pulling in 664,300 viewers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7Y4ETNIKRGGZDLU22JDPKJV3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659117},"content":"Stayed in on New Year’s Eve? Then you might have been one of the 583,600 people calculated by TAM/Nielsen to have watched New Year’s Eve Live on RTÉ One, which saw singer Cian Ducrot ring in 2025 from a concert at Dublin Castle. This was 21st on the list.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQOKON3K6JFKDMNE6HQ5N4I5BU","additional_properties":{"_id":"RDRVSYJQ35GCLM5AAQKRUAQBI4"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-95934","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IR37E6GFAVD4HGXNU3FGIO32C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659118},"content":"Other RTÉ One entertainment shows to feature include Dancing with the Stars (558,300, 25th place); the Rose of Tralee International Festival (543,400, 27th place); the Tommy Tiernan Show (503,200, 31st place); and the most-watched non-toy edition of the Late Late Show (472,300, 36th place).","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGACXXYRUFGMZA3DOKZBSOQALU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659119},"content":"RTE’s news and current affairs output also had a good showing with the most-watched Six One and 9pm news bulletins both appearing in the top 20. Ahead of the general election, the Prime Time Leaders’ Debate was 26th with 551,700 viewers while the Upfront with Katie Hannon Leader’s Debate Special was 35th with 474,300.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RBL5O7QHVHXDIYSZX4RUCJAY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659120},"content":"The investigative documentary Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets by reporter Anne Sheridan was 30th with 514,900 viewers, also on RTÉ One.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JVT42YMSHZEBDJ6WP6DDV4ETZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736508331543},"content":"But with no new drama hit to replicate the appeal of family gangster series Kin, it was a less successful year on linear television for scripted programming. The most-watched scripted show was Mrs Brown’s Boys, with its 476,300 viewers on RTÉ One giving it 34th spot.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDCPNBJHIFHEZBFE5JPJY6ZKRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659123},"content":"Fair City (454,500, 42nd place) and The Young Offenders (441,700, 46th place), both on RTÉ One, were the only other scripted shows in the top 50, reflecting the impact of on-demand viewing on how people consume drama and comedy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3RI6BTOWZAAZGG547MGJ2PDGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736508331545},"content":"<b>On-demand impact</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"2QZ7STRNF5BMDMTUOW3JYULBGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659124},"content":"Among Irish homes with traditional sets, the average adult watched broadcast television on a TV set – either live or recorded to a set-top box – for two hours and 30 minutes every day, which was down just two minutes on the average in 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RI6QMEGU4FG6LCXEGV46LBDLW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659125},"content":"Over a longer period of time, the shift in habits is clearer. A decade ago, in 2014, the average daily viewing time for broadcast television was estimated to be almost an hour longer at three hours and 28 minutes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILQH4TMJZ5F3JA2R7H7E2HVVXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736508331548},"content":"When it comes to watching all forms of video content on a TV set, TAM Ireland said its analysis found viewers in the Irish market last year spent an average of three hours and 23 minutes a day doing this.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q3ITRUL5ORFDLBNV4ZIDII3G5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1736508331549},"content":"Some 77 per cent of this is broadcaster content, 10 per cent is subscription video-on-demand content from Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video and others, 4 per cent is YouTube videos and the rest is content from other non-subscription video streaming services, it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L45GUM3ISVFTLFFUCRQS57FPKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"6MAPIIJZ3JH4TOZH7MPVIFNQXE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IONQU5FCYFD2TPQXQATNQQIDVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659126},"content":"Broadcasters are themselves enjoying substantial growth in streaming. The RTÉ Player reached a record 142 million streams in 2024, up 42 per cent year-on-year, RTÉ said in new end-of-year figures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2LFKSE6UFFWHKRFGAUVY2LOGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659127},"content":"A breakdown of RTÉ Player streams last year confirms how scripted shows tend to do better on-demand and usually benefit from greater longevity than other genres. While Uefa 2024 was the top performer on the RTÉ Player last year, with almost 8.8 million streams across the tournament, BBC soap opera EastEnders was second and not far behind with a total of 8.5 million streams over the full year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCMLU5JO7FBEDEUZWWAHPSD4VY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659128},"content":"Paris 2024 was third with 7.2 million streams, but this was followed by soaps Home and Away with 6.9 million and RTÉ-produced Fair City with 6 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYTKK5ZEBVCVTIRDC7UNJ3VDOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736507659129},"content":"Data compiled for RTÉ by Piano Analytics show that 12 of the top 20 performing programmes on the RTÉ Player in 2024 were scripted, with US drama Yellowstone, Love/Hate, Neighbours, Shortland Street, The Young Offenders, kids’ TV mega-hit Bluey, Kin, The Dry and Normal People all featuring.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Festive Late Late event was the only non-sport programme in the top 10, with I’m a Celebrity and the Eurovision Song Contest among the shows to improve their rankings last year"},"display_date":"2025-01-10T11:38:44.771Z","headlines":{"basic":"Toy Show and sport top list of most-watched TV of 2024. 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The last episode was broadcast on December 19th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2KDRRYBQRRGVTPMALEGUIRAX6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266260563},"content":"“The Stand is taking a break for the foreseeable future,” Tuesday’s announcement said. “We both have long standing commitments to other projects that we must attend to now. Before we go, we would like to thank all those who have helped The Stand to deliver quality news and current affairs content over the past eight years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BA6FWP7MVVFCFAOYHKZO6XEL4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266260564},"content":"The couple said: “It’s been difficult to make the decision to stop now as we’ve hugely enjoyed working together but now is the time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5DD4ZHO65NGHRCEOR33X5BS42Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1736267573080},"content":"The podcast’s archive is to remain online.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNEBJMYTFBEWRCNKP7BCADF7NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736266260565},"content":"Speaking to The Irish Times, Ms Gogan said the break from the podcast “will be a long pause”. Asked if the couple were reducing their workload, Ms Gogan said “the retirement word wasn’t mentioned. 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I prefer to jump straight back into the giant pool of alarm I was immersed in the year before. The bad news is that sanewashing, a term popularised in advance of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us-election/\" target=\"_blank\">US presidential election</a>, is already seeping through the new-year barrier into the icy embrace of 2025, ready to claim its place as the defining media trend of this decade’s miserable midpoint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FQIXNIJVTFDGXJQ4CGCEZTCS4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100131},"content":"I’ve heard it referred to as the opposite of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2023/11/19/are-you-being-gaslit-when-it-happens-in-the-workplace-you-can-start-to-feel-undermined-or-excluded/\" target=\"_blank\">gaslighting </a>— that sticky, literary word people use to describe being deliberately made to feel like they’re going mad. Sanewashing is what happens when wild things happen or a stream of incomprehensible weirdness spews from someone’s mouth but it’s all either intentionally made to sound reasonable or is served up in ways that help imply that it is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJ53N6PGRJBL7JZWT4OT37SBP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100132},"content":"In a sense, then, gaslighting and sanewashing are not opposites, but two sides of the same dangerous coin, in that someone who sees sanewashing flourish unchallenged will soon start to feel like they are being gaslit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"454DHSDF7FGLRETH7UOIYO2E4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100133},"content":"Collins Dictionary is monitoring it for evidence of usage based on the suggested definition “attempting to downplay a person or idea’s radicality to make it more palatable to the general public”. This meaning springs from its frequent surfacing in halcyon pre-election days to criticise how the media translated the extreme and typically garbled ramblings of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BDYSWE4R4RFFLEZUUP3KPO3ZDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100134},"content":"For me, it doesn’t quite cover the full extent of sanewashing. It is not only radicality but mind-bending absurdity that can be rendered acceptable and logical to the public. And then there is the question of whether there is always a conscious attempt to sanewash, or whether the phenomenon is a side effect of the way the news industry operates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HVVYFIG5RH2FFCOTC7HQXETIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100135},"content":"Sanewashing is partly a consequence of format. Within broadcast media, especially old-school television news bulletins, time is finite. In headlines, space is limited. 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But much gets lost, no matter how spot on the framing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AOAVTDDW2BADVJII7Q2GOED3KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100136},"content":"By the time Trump got to the briefly notorious Madison Square Garden rally, the adjectives used to characterise his speeches — crude, angry, vitriolic, meandering, chaotic — were being given prominence over mere repeats of what he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EN6SMNG7SZF3VL37ZSFOMZJV3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100137},"content":"And yet the full queasy experience of a long-form Trump address, with its pile-up of outrageous tangents and quasi-comedic asides, can by definition never be captured within a one-line synopsis or one-minute summary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3F7ZFFUY5H6DD2WUCCSL6UZ3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100138},"content":"Similarly, it is difficult — though I have seen seasoned journalists try — to distil into a single news report every horrifying dimension of the multipronged cruelty inflicted by Israel on Gaza, the myriad ways in which it is behaving like a rogue state and the manner in which it is being aided and abetted in doing so. There is simply too much of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5TIYPAFQNEEHB6PZVLDRKA2RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100139},"content":"This highlights a problem nobody ever had to worry about in more benign times: that the media has a structural bias towards the rational.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQCVH4U2SVGWXH2HFL456BMMGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100140},"content":"News outlets also have a reputational interest, and therefore a financial stake, in presenting themselves as demystification agents. Journalists are charged with trying to explain everything, even the unknowable and nonsensical, because media brands promote themselves as a means by which people can make sense of the world — even when they, too, contribute to the confusion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQ66OJPVX5G4FNLLJZYV22ZVZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100141},"content":"In parallel with this inherent instinct to bestow coherency upon the incoherent, well-meaning news outlets do two other things. They succumb to bothsidesism, or the false balance that results from the wrongful application of impartiality to two things that are not equivalent. And they tastefully refrain — sometimes, anyway — from using labels like crazy, bonkers, bats**t, unhinged, deranged and other terms that may be laced with insensitivity, but nevertheless sum up the age we live in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEAP7BTD6RBULC6IEFGHUTFGAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100142},"content":"Often what people who attack the media for “normalising” the abnormal or platforming extremists are incensed by is tone. Traditional news outlets might have valid reasons to stick to conventional, restrained formality, but they will be lambasted for not explicitly calling a spade a spade. This can boil down to differences of opinion in where statements of fact end and editorialising begins. 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In quoting Musk’s view that Farage “doesn’t have what it takes” and failing to refer to the Tesla man’s comments as the interference they objectively are, it could have been better.","type":"text"},{"_id":"56ZRJZYLEJACHEFNNLJIABVPL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100161},"content":"Indeed, the only possible path out of the sanewashed maze of stupidity and awfulness is to continually remember and remind others that there is nothing normal about the politics of 2025.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NMU6DRESDZCWBECVXMR5LVLSJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736189100162},"content":"But if the flaw of a headline is that the “out-of-control billionaire has some nerve” bit is sometimes silent, then our expectations might have gone awry here too. 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This doubtlessly kind portrait will be shown in cinemas — US cinemas, at least — and also streamed on Prime, which declared itself “excited to share this truly unique story”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFS22FTW2JBHJISJRZPGJXRCPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736186885321},"content":"The untitled project will be directed by Brett Ratner, who in 2017 was accused of sexual misconduct by six women, which he denies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4PKNZDN5NEZ7ICFL6SRVEIFNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736186885322},"content":"Speaking of the inauguration, Amazon was one of several companies to announce plans in December to chip in money — $1 million (€960,000), in its case — to help fund it. 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But the biggest and most intractable challenge facing the incoming government will be housing, which Pat Leahy says <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/01/04/pat-leahy-we-need-to-see-an-explosion-in-house-building-and-new-ideas-this-year/\" target=\"_blank\">must finally be treated as a crisis</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZR4GJ7EW5GPFEFY7QP5ZC2ADE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736068141191},"content":"Beyond politics, the breathtaking speed of development in AI technology is likely to disrupt ever more industries and economic sectors while enhancing and simplifying the distribution of information. 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No need to say “it’s because of Trump” when the politics of this move by Meta are so plain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIBGOMZI5RF6POX5P6EXXXPO5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1735919503168},"content":"Kaplan is a prominent republican who served as deputy chief of staff in the White House during the George W Bush administration. 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Kaplan may be the man to help the company roll over that little bit faster come January 20th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ET3N2R235DJZJZVQVOJCDPX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1735916885075},"content":"The Meta executive has done a promotion-worthy job in the past standing in for Zuckerberg on some of the grovelling stops on his post-Cambridge Analytica apology tours. Former members of the Oireachtas communications committee may remember his 2018 appearance, during which he said the company was “deeply sorry” for failing in its responsibilities to protect users’ data.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYMS7AT5YNDOZPZRGJPRTYWNHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1735916885076},"content":"Zuckerberg recently intimated that he is done apologising. 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Chilling statements such as “the US is now the enemy of the west”, the headline on a column in the Financial Times by Martin Wolf, certainly imply so. A Kremlin spokesman observing on state television that US foreign policy now “largely coincides” with Russia’s vision does the same.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTRJS4XOZ5GUJLMHVYHH3BMUQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054450},"content":"But although missile strikes on Ukraine continue, as far as television is concerned, this once unthinkable shift in the postwar world order is notable for playing out in blandly ornate rooms, sterile institutional spaces and reproductions of unlikely social-media posts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWJWPQUYEVFBDJAILYQVSH6NOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054451},"content":"It does this in a manner that is surreally ignorable by many. Not everyone needs to move countries to swerve newspaper front pages. Not everyone recognises a car crash when they see one. Most people remain thoroughly unengaged by UN resolution votes, no matter how eye-popping they are to those with even the vaguest inkling of how they usually go.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FTQTUBKOBEORLGC3TOKIF5KPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054452},"content":"About 10 days ago, Alex Younger, a former head of British foreign intelligence service MI6, gravely told the BBC’s Newsnight he believed we were now in a new era “where by and large international relations aren’t going to be determined by rules and multilateral institutions, they’re going to be determined by strong men and deals”. He couldn’t see a reversal anytime soon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N736GAYB65DYFMJC3Y3PACHQHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054453},"content":"It didn’t feel like any old piece of sofa-bound punditry, but one of those “is everyone else listening to this?” pieces of current-affairs television that elicit utter dread. And yet deeply sombre episodes of Newsnight do not exactly guarantee that widespread attention is being paid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTWR3YGG75HVXB3MGC46GRJZBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054454},"content":"This past decade has been marked by a worrying gap developing between information “haves” and “have-nots”. Interest in news has waned and news avoidance has risen across the 17 markets, including Ireland, tracked by the Oxford-based Reuters Institute since 2015. In the US, Trump-opposers started to switch off from news during his first term because of the negative effect he had on their mood, while right-wingers became increasingly convinced that everything they didn’t like was fake news. A year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war headed the list of topics that Irish news consumers reported dodging.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSIIHPGTBBB4TAY7YJLH6DSQGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054455},"content":"Last Friday was a messy watershed. Judging solely from the number of passengers on my bus who were playing clips out loud on their phones, Trump and Vance’s snarling pincer movement on the ground-holding Zelenskiy had instant cut-through. The circulating memes soon confirmed it – in one AI-generated fantasy, the Ukrainian president is depicted landing a knockout blow on Trump. This fireside chat unlike all other fireside chats was front-page news even in Cameron’s beloved New Zealand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3768378f-a470-42a0-bae9-a163876a1287","additional_properties":{"_id":1741090567486},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"S25MXJTXRJF4ZGY45OZEWPILZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054456},"content":"And yet although it was “a spectacle to horrify the world”, as the Daily Mail splashed, it was also still a chamber piece by genre – an unreal clash of blinkered playground bullying and formal, high-powered setting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGTG5AVACJEEFOMCLPIVOPI7VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054457},"content":"It might seem crass or shallow to discuss it in these theatrical terms, but it’s also dismally relevant to the psychology of Trump. He has to star in his own show. This raises the spectre that he will now attempt to repeat the formula each time someone ventures into his lair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUASL2MM6NCQTE4VGU35OVBI6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741025054458},"content":"“This is gonna be great television, I will say that,” an angry but energised Trump declared after the dialogue ceased. He couldn’t have been more on brand. All you could do was hope he was referring to the shouty exchanges just passed and not the outbreak of the third World War he accused Zelenskiy of gambling with, in an apparent moment of projection.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Slattery"}},"name":"Laura Slattery"}]},"description":{"basic":"Watching the US president is like ‘watching a car crash over and over and over’, says director James Cameron. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGW6BTKZFJF33MF2AURAWI4NDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"A meeting that was supposed to ease transatlantic tensions over Ukraine through the signing of a bilateral deal on mineral extraction instead descended into a shouting match between these nominal allies. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/\">US vice president JD Vance accused Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy of not thanking the US</a> for its support and of backing Trump’s Democratic opponents in last year’s election. Donald Trump expressed frustration with Kyiv’s reluctance to consider a ceasefire with Russia without first agreeing security guarantees with Washington. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEZFVJHM4RDW7PJ5UDQ4XBEJEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"As the spectacle played out in front of the television cameras, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US put her head in her hands. When the meeting ended, Trump reportedly asked Zelenskiy to leave. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NXOQBCC2XBFXVJETA27PZBYKDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"It could hardly have gone any worse. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ACFO65BMNBXVIU6MEYEWTC6JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"And yet the Oval Office meltdown only confirms what had already become clear: that under Trump’s leadership, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/in-showdown-with-zelenskiy-trump-takes-offence-on-putins-behalf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/01/in-showdown-with-zelenskiy-trump-takes-offence-on-putins-behalf/\">Washington’s public position on Ukraine has more or less aligned with that of Vladimir Putin</a>. A deep fissure has opened up between the US and its European allies, who even before Friday’s disaster were scrambling furiously to contain the damage incurred by the fraying of the transatlantic partnership. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QCNBCZXHRDIZO3GDBKOEAXRNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, the fate of millions of Ukrainians - and the future of Ukraine as an independent state - hangs in the balance. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZHOLV4TDNDMXIEHLXKQSE6NO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The crisis diplomacy will continue today, when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/02/ukraines-zelenskiy-and-european-leaders-to-meet-as-uk-signs-27bn-loan-with-kyiv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/02/ukraines-zelenskiy-and-european-leaders-to-meet-as-uk-signs-27bn-loan-with-kyiv/\">Zelenskiy will join fellow European leaders in London</a> for talks hosted by UK prime minister Keir Starmer. They are racing to formulate a common response to what many see as the end of the American security guarantee that has been in place since the end of the second World War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4K45E7RCS5AANJT3Z2TJRIMCZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Real negotiations on a cessation of hostilities still seem some way off, with scant information about who might be involved if and when those talks finally begin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JDZOMX7TABAABMYFPATSYOHXTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, the conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s Kursk region grinds remorselessly on, claiming ever more lives. Russia continues its aerial assault on civilian targets, with waves of drone and missile attacks on cities claiming more casualties and strikes on energy infrastructure continuing to deprive thousands of heat and light in the sub-zero temperatures of late winter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HFMTDEKINCR7IH6DKTZHKKFNU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Our Eastern Europe Correspondent Daniel McLaughlin <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/01/well-rest-when-we-win-no-let-up-for-ukraines-medics-and-rescue-teams-as-war-with-russia-grinds-on/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/01/well-rest-when-we-win-no-let-up-for-ukraines-medics-and-rescue-teams-as-war-with-russia-grinds-on/\">reports this weekend from Mechnikov hospital</a> in the city of Dnipro, the closest major medical centre to the main battlefield. The medical workers he talks to describe the dangers of rescuing wounded soldiers from the front line while armed Russian drones hover overhead in search of targets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POIYMLLLIZBRPIO3SCRPQMC7VM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We all know that this is our war, our country, that this is about defending our country ,” Oleksandr Tolubaiev, the hospital’s medical director, tells Daniel. “Of course, stress and fatigue have been extremely high for a long time, but there is no other way – we have to stand strong, endure and keep going until we win. And then we will rest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3KATHHNYBF4FPQ3EJLDILI2C4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ruadhán Mac Cormaic","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRFNGU7OHJDQBBZGE5USUBHJKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Editor","type":"text"},{"_id":"UG6FMQ6NPVA7LBAGPDWNAUR3WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Five key reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"27XHZPK6WNGLNI6XKKLPBBKZ4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Guantánamo on steroids’: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/01/guantanamo-on-steroids-inside-a-prison-for-suspected-islamic-state-members-in-syria/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/01/guantanamo-on-steroids-inside-a-prison-for-suspected-islamic-state-members-in-syria/\">Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria</a>: Sally Hayden reports from Hasaka, northeast Syria where people suspected of being Islamic State members are detained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGEIZHCTINHNFMKHPW52INAUVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘He destroyed our world.’ <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/03/01/he-destroyed-our-world-questions-remain-for-danielle-mclaughlins-family-after-man-convicted-of-her-rape-and-murder/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/03/01/he-destroyed-our-world-questions-remain-for-danielle-mclaughlins-family-after-man-convicted-of-her-rape-and-murder/\">Danielle McLaughlin’s family on the murder of a ‘brilliant big sister’</a>: Kitty Holland speaks to the family of Donegal woman Danielle McLaughlin who was raped and murdered in India eight years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPBJILFGHBCLBM6LRNKO2ETGP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish property market is rigged <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/02/25/at-least-7-in-10-house-buyers-get-gifts-from-parents-often-six-figure-sums/\" target=\"_blank\" 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