Banking Inquiry to hold media module hearings next week

20/03/2015

The Oireachtas Banking Inquiry will commence the media module as part of its Context hearings next week.

The schedule for the hearings is:

Wednesday 25th March 2015

9.30am – Julian Mercille (UCD)

11.45am – Harry Browne (DIT)

2.30pm – Irish Examiner
Tim Vaughan – Editor
Tom Murphy – CEO

Thursday 26th March 2015

9.30am – Independent News and Media
Gerry O’Regan, former Editor of Irish Independent
Michael Doorly, former Financial Director and now Company Secretary at Independent News & Media

11.45am – The Irish Times
Maeve Donovan , former Managing Director,
Geraldine Kennedy, former Editor

2.30pm – RTÉ
Ed Mulhall, former Head of News and Current Affairs
Paul Mulligan, Head of Commercial Operations at RTÉ

Chairman Ciaran Lynch TD: “On Wednesday 25th March we will commence public hearings on the role of the media during the property boom in the lead-in to the banking crisis and any changes in approach after the crisis. In particular, we will consider the role in mainstream media for scepticism about the sustainability of the housing boom or the strength of the broader economy; potential conflicts of interest among media organisations; the promotion of property ownership over other forms of tenure; and the prevailing view that there would be a soft landing.

“We will first hear from academics Julian Mercille and Harry Browne. Julien Mercille is lecturer at University College Dublin and the author of the book The Role of the Media in the European Economic Crisis: The Case of Ireland. Harry Browne is a lecturer in the School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology. On Wednesday, The Committee will also hear from Tim Vaughan, editor of the Irish Examiner and Tom Murphy, chief executive of the Irish Examiner. We will resume our hearings on the media module on Thursday, 26th March when we will hear from Gerry O’Regan, former editor of the Irish Independent; Michael Doorly, former financial director and now company secretary at Independent News & Media; Maeve Donovan, former managing director, and Geraldine Kennedy, former editor, of the Irish Times; and Ed Mulhall, former head of news and current affairs, and Paul Mulligan, head of commercial operations at RTÉ.”

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Committee Membership

Deputies

Ciarán Lynch (Chairman)
Pearse Doherty
Joe Higgins
Michael McGrath
Eoghan Murphy
Kieran O’Donnell
John Paul Phelan

Senators

Sean D Barrett
Michael D’Arcy
Marc MacSharry
Susan O’Keeffe