Andrea Martin

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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly referred to Facebook as “a tech company” and not a “media company”. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Handling of Kriégel case by social media giants raises questions

The dramatic injunction against Facebook and Twitter granted last Wednesday was rapidly amended by the court on Thursday. Mr Justice Michael White rem(...)

From left or right: Tom O’ Donoghue, member of NET patient network, Mark McDonnell, chairman of NET , Andrea Martin, member of NET and Michael Fallon, member of NET
Call for better awareness of ‘quiet cancers’

It was the type of cancer that killed Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011 and American soul singer Aretha Franklin in 2018. It’s the cancer that RTÉ (...)

Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Riordáin deleted a message he had posted which questioned the rape trial verdict. A party spokesman said: “He knows it was wrong.” File photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times
People risk being sued for online comments on verdict, say experts

Individuals who post messages on social media questioning the verdict in the Belfast rape trial could run the risk of being sued, according to legal e(...)

Prof Todd Gitlin said he had not previously heard of Denis O’Brien
US academic pledges to defend free speech at seminar

A leading US academic due to speak at a conference in Trinity College, Dublin has said he “will defend the right to seek truth and to campaign against(...)

Denis O’Brien addressing the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2010. Photograph: Brian Harkin/Getty Images
Denis O’Brien remains silent after Trump’s attack on his record

Denis O’Brien was maintaining his silence last night on US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s unprecedented action of using the controversial busin(...)

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel lodged a defamation action in the High Court in Dublin this week against Heat magazine’s publishers, the German Bauer Media Group. Photograph: PA Wire
The links between Hollywood, Heat and the Irish High Court

In separate papers filed in their names at the High Court this week, the Hollywood couple Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have issued defamation pr(...)

Press Ombudsman hopes for greater acceptance of journalistic standards online

The Press Council of Ireland decision to accept the journal.ie as a member augurs well for the future of digital news providers in that it may lead(...)