Column
Kathleen MacMahon: Power and glory now reside in corporate cathedrals of the capital
Taking a walking tour to get a measure of our capital city, it’s evident by the buildings that the corporate world has supplanted religion as the dominant power, but who gave them that power?
Curiosity is one of the essential qualities in a journalist, but it doesn’t always come with the clarity of thought required to distil something of substance out of it.
I had been working in the RTÉ newsroom for ten years when I received a textbook lesson in this from a new guy who’d just joined. He was older than the usual recruit and had a successful career in regional radio behind him, but he’d had ...