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Geraldine Kennedy named as 'Irish Times' editor

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday October 11, 2002 17:30author by Justin Moran - Sinn Feinauthor email maigh_nuad at yahoo dot com

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Geraldine Kennedy named as 'Irish Times' editor
Last updated: 11-10-02, 17:12

Ms Geraldine Kennedy has been appointed as editor of The Irish Times, it was announced this afternoon. She succeeds Mr Conor Brady who held the position for 16 years.

Ms Kennedy has previously been Political Editor and Duty Editor, Political Correspondent and Public Affairs Correspondent of the newspaper.

She held the post of Political Correspondent at The Sunday Tribune from 1980 to 1982 and she was Political Correspondent of The Sunday Press from 1982 to 1987.

In 1987 she was elected to the Dail as a Progressive Democrat deputy for Dun Laoghaire and was the party spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Northern Ireland.

In 1987, along with Irish Independent journalist, Bruce Arnold, she successfully sued the State for invasion of privacy.

The journalists' telephones had been tapped on foot of a warrant signed by the then Minister for Justice, Mr Sean Doherty. The High Court determined that the tapping was unconstitutional and an abuse of power by the State.

Ms Kennedy is a native of Carrick-on-Suir Co Tipperary. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Ferrybank, Waterford and at the Rathmines College of Commerce (now DIT).

She holds the diploma in Managing Media Innovation of the Scandinavian International Management Institute. She is 51 years of age and is married with two daughters.

Mr Brady was appointed editor of The Irish Times in 1986. He first joined the Newspaper in 1969 on graduation from UCD. He was appointed as editor in 1986 in succession to Mr Douglas Gageby.

Over the period of his editorship, the newspaper's audited daily circulation grew from 80,000 to almost 120,000.

The trust and board of The Irish Times have asked him to take the honorary title of Editor Emeritus. He will remain on the board for a period as a non-executive director.

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C'mon Justin...
author by MGpublication date Fri Oct 11, 2002 18:21author address author phone

...this stuff is availble on ever Irish news site on the Internet.

Is indymedia not a forum for views/articles that are ignored by the mainstream media?

so we don't have to buy
author by hate pay per view - post the shit from ireland.compublication date Fri Oct 11, 2002 19:56author address author phone

?
author by chopperpublication date Sat Oct 12, 2002 12:18author address author phone

sinn fein doing PR for the irish times!
whats the deal?

It's called 'New Nationalism'
author by Jack the Ladpublication date Sat Oct 12, 2002 20:02author address author phone

What the PD's truly represent.
author by john spublication date Sat Oct 12, 2002 22:53author address author phone

Of all the established parties, the PD's is the on i hate the most.

They are free market capitalists shits.

There ideal of al a utopian society is one in which, tax levels are non-exsistent. In which government is small.

And the "little people" can live in the slums of our town and cities, for the continued exsistence of humanity.

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