{"id":3504,"date":"2015-03-04T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2015-03-04T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T13:53:40","slug":"oireachtas-banking-inquiry-to-commence-media-module-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/oireachtas-banking-inquiry-to-commence-media-module-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Oireachtas Banking Inquiry to commence media module hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oireachtas Banking Inquiry will commence the media module as part of its Context hearings at the end of March.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposed schedule for the hearings is:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wednesday 25th March 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.30am<\/strong> &#8211; Julian Mercille (UCD)<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.45am<\/strong> &#8211; Harry Browne (DIT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.30pm<\/strong> \u2013 Irish Examiner<\/p>\n<p>Tim Vaughan &#8211; Editor<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thursday 26th March 2015<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.30am<\/strong> \u2013 Independent News and Media<\/p>\n<p>Gerry O\u2019Regan, former Editor of Irish Independent<br \/>\nMichael Doorly, former Financial Director and now Company Secretary at Independent News &amp; Media<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.45am<\/strong> \u2013 The Irish Times<\/p>\n<p>Maeve Donovan , former Managing Director,<br \/>\nGeraldine Kennedy, former Editor<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.30pm<\/strong> &#8211; RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p>Ed Mulhall, former Head of News and Current Affairs<br \/>\nPaul Mulligan, Head of Commercial Operations at RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Ciaran Lynch TD: \u201cOn 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. 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. We will resume our hearings on the media module on Thursday, 26th March when we will hear from Gerry O\u2019Regan, former editor of the Irish Independent; Michael Doorly, former Financial Director and now Company Secretary at Independent News &amp; 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 RT\u00c9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry proceedings can be accessed on this website: www.oireachtas.ie\/bankinginquiry\/<\/p>\n<p>Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>All media enquiries in relation to the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry should be addressed to:<\/p>\n<p>Ciaran Brennan,<br \/>\nHouses of the Oireachtas,<br \/>\nCommunications Unit,<br \/>\nLeinster House,<br \/>\nDublin 2<\/p>\n<p>P: +3531 618 3903<br \/>\nM: 086-0496518<br \/>\nF: +3531 618 4551<\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee Membership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Deputies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ciar\u00e1n Lynch (Chairman)<br \/>\nPearse Doherty<br \/>\nJoe Higgins<br \/>\nMichael McGrath<br \/>\nEoghan Murphy<br \/>\nKieran O\u2019Donnell<br \/>\nJohn Paul Phelan<\/p>\n<p><em>Senators<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sean D Barrett<br \/>\nMichael D\u2019Arcy<br \/>\nMarc MacSharry<br \/>\nSusan O\u2019Keeffe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oireachtas Banking Inquiry will commence the media module as part of its Context hearings at the end of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}