Pitt departure sets the scene for further drama at INM

The chief executive has resigned, but the issues he raised during his stormy tenure are still very much a live grenade, writes Ian Guider

Robert Pitt and Leslie Buckley in (slightly) happier times: the duo’s relationship deteriorated so badly that they could not sit next to each other during an agm last August Picture: Fergal Phillips

In fewer than 30 words, Independent News & Media dispatched its chief executive Robert Pitt and attempted to bring the curtain down on more than a year of internal turmoil that has landed the newspaper publisher at the centre of an investigation by the state’s corporate watchdog.

However, Pitt’s decision to leave INM, “to pursue other interests” as the brief statement issued by the company late on Thursday put it, does not draw ...