Results 11,241-11,260 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The allegation was not made by me.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, I did not.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I do not want to upset the Chair, but perhaps he could bear with me on this. If this inquiry were different and we were in a position to name names, would the witness clearly have a name to give?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: An organisation or individual who specifically blocked the publication of Morgan Kelly.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I understand.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Of course. I look forward to us being able to name names.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No. I do not want to create the illusion either, that there is not a clear fact for the record here today, that this witness would say a journalist would block-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Can we name an organisation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Am I allowed to ask for a yes or no?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Just so we are crystal clear, was Morgan Kelly's article blocked by somebody, yes or no?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is good. Does the witness have any evidence to suggest that Government agencies or the corporate world lifted the phone to the editor of a news agency to say, "Do not print that, do not follow that line, or we will pull advertising"?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I have a quote from The Bankersby Shane Ross: "Unfavourable coverage of developers and auctioneers in other parts of the newspapers was regularly met by implied threats from property interests that advertising could go elsewhere." There is, however, no example in the book. Has the witness an example?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: We are talking about implied threats. Without naming names, are there any examples?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It is accepted then. It is a rumour. There is no hard evidence, is there?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is it true or false?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is the only evidence the Shane Ross quote I just gave?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I thank Mr. Browne for coming before the committee. I would like to talk about his time at The Irish Times. What were the themes and areas he wrote about while he worked there?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did Mr. Browne ever experience editorial interference?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Apart from guidance and mentoring as I am sure any boss would provide, was there ever a line the witness took which he was advised to adjust, for any reasons which were unusual?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did the witness ever have any experience of corporate interference where a particular line was adverse to advertisers? Did an editor ever ask him to be more commercially sensitive?