by Jane WhyattMedia freedom campaigners have welcomed the news that two of Ireland’s biggest companies will not be merging after all.
NUJ Acting General Secretary (2nd left) at ECPMF at Dublin conference on media ownership (Photo: ECPMF/Nora Wehofsits)
Denis O’Brien’s Independent News and Media Holdings was set to acquire the local radio and newspaper networks of CMLN Limited, formerly Celtic Media Newspapers Limited. The takeover was debated at ECPMF’s Newsocracy#2 conference in Dublin where Social Democrat TD (Member of parliament) Catherine Murphy explained why she had introduced a new law in the Irish Daìl, the parliament. The Private Members Bill on…
