Results 2,501-2,520 of 4,414 for speaker:Sean Barrett
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Regarding the lunchtime booze incident that Mr. Browne described, are there not ethical rules that state a journalist should get the story on the new president of the Stock Exchange and not waste time eating and drinking with these guys?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I am glad Woodward and Bernstein did not want to have lunch with Richard Nixon and just did the story.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome our friends from Cork and thank them for making the journey. In Mr. Murphy's presentation, he referred to the splendid Cork Savings Bank building. Was it part of the group for a while? Was it to be the corporate headquarters?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Is it still in the group?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Mr. Vaughan referred to Mr. Maurice O'Connell as a contrarian. Mr. O'Connell wrote in the Irish Examinerin 1999 that banks were lending too much money too easily. How did Mr. Vaughan present the story?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: It struck me as strange that the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland was saying that. I would be analogous to a hospital consultant saying that too many of his or her patients were seriously ill or dying. It was a story not just because of what he said but because of who he was. Did Mr. Vaughan question him on it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I thank the editor.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did the article by the redoubtable Mr. Ryle Dwyer appear on its normal page, or did Mr. Vaughan put it on the business page so that the economics and business people would see the contrarian view?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did people in Cork communicate to the Irish Examinera feeling we have got from around the country - that too many banking functions had been relocated to Dublin, that managers in important towns and cities throughout Ireland were replaced by a speaking clock in the Dublin headquarters and that this was part of the problem in the property sector?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did Mr. Vaughan ever have any indication from the bankers, or in talks with his journalists, particularly when the Irish Examinerwas on Academy Street and they were on the South Mall, that things were happening in banking in Cork that could not continue? Did any bankers communicate to him that a crash was likely to be on the way?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Ditto with the property sector. Did anybody in the property sector communicating with Mr. Vaughan or his journalists say there was going to be a crash?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I was hoping the rebel county would have lived up to its reputation. The Central Statistics Office is located in Mahon in Cork. It is a major advantage for the Irish Examinerin terms of getting data on issues such as the way property lending took over Irish banking. Does the Irish Examinerhave first use of all that data and good contacts with the CSO?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Mr. Vaughan noted the rapid movement in Irish bank lending towards property to the exclusion of virtually everything else, so he had a warning signal.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome our visitors. What was the revenue from the sale of the Abbey Street and Prince's Street premises when moving to Talbot Street and Citywest?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: We have seen evidence of the growth of the public relations sector. One of the witnesses yesterday stated that in the US it became four times bigger than the number of working journalists in newspapers. How many public relations documents would reach an editor's desk in an average week?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Is it a career path? Do many journalists want to go into PR rather than into investigative journalism?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Is there sufficient time to write copy? We heard evidence yesterday to the effect that when the PR material is obtained, a journalist must then contact somebody else involved in the sector. However, he or she has no time to carry out independent research in order to write a properly rounded article. As a result, we tend to receive the views of incumbents rather than those of contrarians...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: In discussing matters with Irish Independentjournalists, did Mr. O'Regan pick up on any nuances with regard to what was happening? Did any of them ever indicate that they did not like the look of what was happening at Anglo Irish Bank or Irish Nationwide? Did anyone ever state that they were of the view that a particular briefing given by the Central Bank was strange and that they were...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did people in provincial cities raise concerns with Mr. O'Regan to the effect that decision making in Irish banks had been replaced by a speaking clock-type of mechanism at their headquarters and that such banks were losing touch with the real economy outside Dublin?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome our two visitors this afternoon. If I may, there may be an identity issue on page 4. We will have the Financial Regulator in later, but I do not think that he was ever chairman of The Irish Times. That is stated on page 4: "As an aside, the Chairman of the Board of The Irish Times Ltd was the Financial Regulator".