Funferal

Irish media contracts?

OK, so I’m searching the web for pages that reference my sister’s win on Sunday, and I come across one [update: link removed, as it no longer works 2002-07-15] that makes me ask:

When did eircom.net start sourcing its news from the Irish Independent and Unison?

I know I didn’t believe ‘them’ when they said that O’Reilly becoming chair of eircom wouldn’t have any impact on activities, or on the Irish media landscape, but sometimes you want to be proven wrong…
Note for non-Irish readers: eircom, Ireland’s former state-owned telco, and my former employer, was bought by a consortium ‘headed’ by Anthony O’Reilly, former CEO of Heinz and owner of most of the newspapers in Ireland, in early 2002. Then I left.