Results 11,781-11,800 of 15,555 for speaker:Eoghan Murphy

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: When did the merging of those elements begin to take place?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman and both witnesses. I want confirmation of something that has arisen from earlier questioning. Was Mr. O'Regan ever contacted by a senior Government member or representative to complain about an article or series of articles that were carried in his newspaper?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: Has he ever received a formal complaint from someone with significant business interests in the Irish economy?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: For an article or a series of articles?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: What about a complaint from a major shareholder in the newspaper?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Eoghan Murphy: A view was expressed here yesterday that editors are hired or chosen because they have a similarity of viewpoint with the owner. In this case there is a shareholding but there are majority shareholders. Can Mr. O'Regan tell me a bit about how he was hired? Does he think he was hired because he shared a similar viewpoint with a majority shareholder?

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?