None of Ireland ‘s “National” Newspapers or Newspaper Groups have British, French, German or Italian editions aimed at British, French or other non-Irish citizens. I don’t think any of those countries ‘ national papers have editions aimed at citizens of other countries.
The London Times, Sunday Times, and Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, virulently anti-Irish, and in the case of THE TIMES historically genocidally so, have “Irish” editions. So also the British “Mirror” Group has Irish editions. And all these papers sell well in Ireland. The phenomenon is odd, freakish, and, to my mind sinister, if rabid rightwing papers can be deemed sinister.
In addition, Dublin still publishes the IRISH TIMES, once read almost exclusively by Anglo-Irish, Church of Ireland readers with some “Castle Catholic” West Britons who cherished a servile rather than a civil relationship with Ireland’s island neighbour. Under the editorship of Douglas Gageby, a Belfast Protestant and former Irish Army Officer it was addressed to all who gave their loyalty to Ireland, and enjoyed a deservedly increased circulation.
But another Belfast Protestant, ex-Major Tom McDowell of the British Army and MI5 collaborated with the British Government, and Harold Wilson’s legal fixer Arnold Goodman set up the IRISH TIMES TRUST to clip Gageby’s wings . The Trust made the Major from MI5 dictator for life. And the SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON reported he kept the, paper in London’s orbit. McDowell and Gageby are both dead and Catholics or ex-Catholics have occupied the Editor’s chair since Gageby died. But the Irish Times Trust, a secretive if not secret society, still keeps the paper in a servile posture towards Britain.
I understand the IRISH (formerly Cork) examiner and Evening Echo now belong to The Irish Times and are not noticeably untamed.
I won’t dwell on the IRISH INDEPENDENT GROUP. Anyone who has read the wall-to-wall and off-the-wall anti-republican diatribes of Eoghan Harris and/or Ruth Dudley Edwards can make their own judgement -if they are old enough to remember when the belief in Ireland as a nation was not deemed eccentric.
The Garda Siochana, described by Micheal Collins as an (Irish) People’s Police service, is now headed by an ex-RUC man bound by Britain’s Official Secrets Act, and a collaborator with Britain’s Military Intelligence spooks and goons in MI5 and MI6.
So, I ask myself a question which you might ask yourself – IS DUBLIN THE CAPITAL OF A SOVEREIGN STATE?
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