Ms Maeve Donovan:

I suppose the code is such that we do not allow it to interfere in any way with content. We start from that process. As I said, my instinct was generally to let them vent and talk it down. If it was of huge interest, clearly we would have a conversation about it, but we are operating within a context in which there are no circumstances whatever in The Irish Timeswhere there can be intrusion into the editorial space. I think that is very well understood and, unlike with other newspapers, it is a codified process. You know from the first day you walk into D'Olier Street - as it was then - what the rules of the game are. The Deputy might consider that from a commercial perspective this was a negative, but I have always regarded it as a positive. There was such clarity around it and our advertiser audience was very well informed about it as well. It adds strength to the paper.