Results 3,701-3,720 of 15,555 for speaker:Eoghan Murphy
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Did Mr. O'Regan have a relationship with any of the shareholders?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Did Mr. O'Regan speak regularly with them? Did a shareholder take him to lunch once a year, or once every two or three years, to talk about the paper?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Was editorial policy discussed at those social occasions or at the side of the AGM, for example?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Was it an opportunity for the major shareholder to have a sit down one-on-one to talk, in detail, about the state of the economy or the Government?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: So a major shareholder in the company would have the opportunity to convey his or her views to Mr. O'Regan on matters of significance.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Did that happen?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Were those views ever conveyed to Mr. O'Regan by way of an instruction?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Was Mr. O'Regan ever concerned by those interactions in terms of how they might influence his decision-making as an editor?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. O'Regan. I will ask Mr. Doorly a couple of questions.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chair and I will have to be brief then. In relation to the property supplement, and Mr. Doorly has mentioned that there were three, how does management view the property supplement? Is the supplement purely a vehicle for selling advertising?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: An advertiser buys an expensive slot, say, the front page-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: No, the main newspaper, because the main newspaper is not a commercial vehicle. If he or she buys the prime slot on the main page, what power does he or she have over what appears on the front page of that newspaper as a result?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Reference was just made to contact from interests outside the paper. Was Ms Donovan ever contacted by someone senior in government or a senior Government representative over content carried in the paper?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: What about business interests outside of that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: What about from someone senior, perhaps in the Government or with a particular interest, or someone well known? Is there a code for dealing with that complaint? Would management let editorial know and would there be a discussion?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Ms Donovan said in her opening statement: the independence of the newspaper is emphatically stressed when the newspaper is marketed to clients. It is one of the key differentiators of The Irish Timeswithin the Irish newspaper sector. Does this mean other titles are not stressing this, or do not have this independence?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I think Ms Donovan was commenting on them, though. In her opening statement she said it was a key differentiator between the paper and other titles.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In differentiating The Irish Timesfrom other papers by making this so explicit, Ms Donovan is stating that other papers do not make it explicit.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: How would that independence, or the way that the paper makes its independence explicit, make Ms Donovan view other papers?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In terms of independence?