Press Council Of Ireland

The media is critical to Ireland’s democracy, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said after the inaugural meeting of a group which will advise the governme(...)

A “real crisis” in news media is contributing to errors in coverage, according to press ombudsman Peter Feeney. Mr Feeney said there was “a constant (...)

The Office of the Press Ombudsman received 464 complaints in 2018, up from 330 the previous year, according to its annual report published on Wednesda(...)

Press Ombudsman Peter Feeney has upheld nine press complaints this year and, on average, receives 300 such complaints annually, he said on Tuesday. “A(...)

The unaccountability of social media companies is a specific threat to press freedom in the State, the chairman of the Press Council has said. Speaki(...)

The National Union of Journalists has called on the Government to redraft “unacceptable secrecy provisions” in new legislation which will protect the (...)

Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why is the latest teen show on our screens and, while its portrayal of suicide and rape has been criticised for being either too (...)

At the opening of the Garda whistleblower tribunal, the tribunal chairman Mr Justice Peter Charleton, said he wanted to know if the media was being “u(...)

Former diplomat Seán Donlon has been named as the new chair of the Press Council of Ireland. Mr Donlon, pictured, was appointed following a public c(...)

It has become almost de rigueur for people involved in public controversies nowadays to demand public apologies from people they regard as having c(...)