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Irish Times Deputy Editor launches University of Limerick's journalism lecture series
THE deputy editor of the Irish Times, Fintan O'Toole, this Tuesday launched the seminar series Investigating Current Issues in Irish Journalism, run by the journalism faculty at the University of Limerick.
The lecture. How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger, Mr O'Toole said: ""When you get very rapid rises in property prices, the typical fall is 70 per cent, that's what happens, and the consequences of this are pretty terrible."
He said when he went into Irish journalism, the governing assumption 'if only we knew' summed the impetus in the profession.
"If only we knew that Charlie Haughey was a crook we wouldn't vote for him, if only we knew that the Church was implicated in the institutionalised abuse of children, their hierarchical authority would be fundamentally challenged, and if only we knew that very large parts of economic policy were being determined by, and implemented for, a very small group of people who had special access to political power, then our attitude as a society to the way power worked would fundamentally alter. The basic journalistic impulse of holding power to account, which is what we are supposed to do, was based on the idea that the account itself would alter the power," he said.
The next seminar, next Tuesday, welcomes Sunday Tribune editor, Noreen Hegarty. Future seminars include, Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly, February 23; Irish Examiner Education correspondent Niall Murray, March 2; Sunday Business Post editor, Cliff Taylor, March 16; RTE Politics correspondent David McCullough, April 13. Further details are available on www.ul.ie/journalism
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