Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The section that Mr. Browne has on page 5 states, "Journalists who continued to feel that they should be doing hard-hitting, critical scrutiny of powerful institutions felt disempowered from doing so." Is that not just life? In all fields of activity one must have courage, one must have convictions, one will encounter obstacles. I know it is a wrong analogy but let us say that Kerry footballers and Kilkenny hurlers are not exactly waiting to hand over the titles next year, so are journalists being a bit self-pitying when they say things like that? Go on and do the story and stop worrying about who will not like it.