Ian Drennan
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INM defends text exchanges between Denis O’Brien and Leslie Buckley
- Media & Marketing
- April 30, 2018, 01:00
Independent News & Media (INM) has defended contacts between its largest shareholder, Denis O’Brien, and its then chairman, Leslie Buckley. It h(...)

Tapes linked to suspected INM data breach destroyed
- Media & Marketing
- April 29, 2018, 20:38
Back-up tapes associated with the suspected data breach at Independent News & Media (INM) were destroyed in February of this year, according to a (...)

Watchdog warned about risk to ‘free press’ from alleged INM data breach
- Media & Marketing
- April 24, 2018, 05:45
The State’s corporate watchdog warned there were “very serious public interest issues” concerning the freedom of the press arising from a suspected ma(...)

Buckley’s exit ‘does not diminish concerns’ about INM, watchdog says
- Media & Marketing
- April 23, 2018, 05:05
Director of Corporate Enforcement Ian Drennan has expressed concerns about the affairs of Independent News & Media (INM) that extend beyond the sc(...)

NUJ calls on Naughten to recuse himself over INM lobbyist call
- Politics
- April 22, 2018, 20:45
The National Union of Journalists has called on Minister for Communications Denis Naughten to recuse himself from media regulation for telling a lobby(...)

INM saga drifts on and catches more people in its tentacles
- Media & Marketing
- April 21, 2018, 06:02
Emerging revelations from the Independent News & Media saga, like a giant drifting jellyfish in a tempestuous sea, are catching more and more peop(...)

INM battens down the hatches as storm becomes a typhoon
- Business
- April 21, 2018, 05:55
In the weeks following Independent News and Media (INM) chief executive Robert Pitt’s 2016 whistleblowing over the conduct of chairman Leslie Buckley,(...)

John McManus: Why did Robert Pitt take on Denis O’Brien and Leslie Buckley?
- Opinion
- April 21, 2018, 05:00
One line in particular stands out from the many colourful quotes that pepper the affidavit filed by Ian Drennan, the head of the Office of the Directo(...)

The 10-minute chat that rocked Independent News & Media to its core
- Media & Marketing
- April 20, 2018, 05:00
Conversations on Dublin’s Talbot Street typically concern its bargain clothes and mobile phone shops. One day in May 2015, however, an unusual chat to(...)

INM investor wants company to buy back O’Brien’s stake
- Media & Marketing
- April 20, 2018, 05:00
One of the 10 biggest shareholders in Independent News & Media (INM) has urged the company to examine using some of its €90 million cash pile to b(...)