Mr. Harry Browne:

It is not particularly relevant to the work of the committee, although it might be. I was doing a very long piece for The Dubliner about the political direction of The Irish Timesand the question of whether it had essentially moved to the right in the course of the years of the boom. In so far as it related to how that political orientation was related to its structural relationship with corporate interests, it is relevant. The general view of the people I interviewed inside and outside The Irish Timesis that there had been a perceptible move to the political right in the outlook of the paper during that time. The general view was that this largely reflected an entrenchment of the view of Irish political elites in a more conservative and neoliberal direction during the Celtic tiger period.