Results 7,981-8,000 of 26,043 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: The editorial of 7 August 2007 specifically referred to the Government of the time putting in realistic steps to assist affordability when clearly we now know, and based on the editorials the Irish Examinerhad previously printed, that everything was crashing around us at a rate of knots.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Who does Mr. Vaughan represent? What is his remit as editor of the Irish Examineraround property at that time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Vaughan follow the readers or does he comment independently of them? Was there a herd mentality during the period whereby the newspaper media followed the fashion of the moment?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Vaughan see the Irish Examineras being different from the Dublin media?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: In what sense, regarding property?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Were there occasions on which Mr. Vaughan was running with an editorial line or allowing features to be printed that could have been perceived to be detrimental to the commercial and advertising operations of the Irish Examiner, he was contacted by the CEO, Mr. Murphy, and he pulled back?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Of any description?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Although Mr. Murphy said the group went into receivership due to other issues, was the property crash the tipping point that pushed Thomas Crosbie Holdings into receivership?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of the advertising base.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to property-specific revenue.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: When Mr. Murphy referred to 7%, was it 7% of the income of the Irish Examiner or 7% of the overall income of Thomas Crosbie Holdings?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: The figure is for the Irish Examinerrevenue specifically. Is that the case?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did Mr. Murphy ever have a situation where he would have been contacted by, say, an auctioneer or developer about critical comments in the Irish Examinerunder Mr. Vaughan's jurisdiction?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: On a point of information, Senator Michael D'Arcy asked Mr. Vaughan whether he had written an editorial about a soft landing. There was one on 7 August 2007 entitled "Soft landing to cushion fall in prices." Did the fact that there was so much competition between the various newspapers influence the coverage of the property market generally? This is as much a question for Mr. Murphy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would there ever be a situation in which the Irish Examiner would refuse advertising?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Not in property?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did the editor of the property supplement, Mr. Tommy Barker, report to Mr. Vaughan? Was Mr. Vaughan the senior editor?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Vaughan have an input into the content of the property supplement?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Vaughan ever have asked for something to be changed in the property supplement that he felt might have conflicted in some way with the main body of the newspaper?