Media silence over Niall Collins story

Like Niall 'O'Connor' Collins they are, or should be, answerable to the law.

When we see The Ditch forced to pay out for libel or defamation we can judge them on that.

The Ditch are doing investigative journalism that's holding public servants to account. Unless you are related to those individuals then The Ditch and are saving YOU money and are directly improving standards in our public bodies. Simples :)

I'm not assuming you need a court to tell you what your opinion should be.

But The Ditch aren't answerable to you and nor should they be.

I responded to the question of who The Ditch were answerable to.

Perhaps the other media companies are better at hiding their agenda though.

The “facts” in the Ditch article about Collins are not that compelling, and have been shown to either be weak or poorly researched so I think it’s fair to say on the facts presented so far, it is very much a swing and miss.

I don’t know about you, but I hope the media here doesn’t start to go down the road of the US where they are dedicated to attacking politicians on each side, even if what they publish is not factual or accurate. If that is your brand of media, then the Ditch is perfect.

If they keep having misses, they become an irrelevance. There is an article today on it titled about an ex FG TD, the guy was last a TD in 2002, hadn’t been a councillor for 9 years, so why they are trying to give it a political slant is not clear.

There's no way he invited Grayzone to the web summit as a dig to FG. He liked what they had to say plain and simple as it aligns with his conspiracy theory tendancies. It was only after Mrs Zelensky said she wouldn't attend if they were that he canceled his personal invitations to them. Sure the sneaky little fvck hosted them at a private dinner 24 hours after she had left the conference.

That'll never happen of course, as soon as it's onto a loser in the High Court it'll vaporize and Cosgrave will set up another vehicle for his sad ego.

That's what the establishment will always do. Their supporters are completely brainwashed and crave the status quo. This story is in all the national papers and yet the messenger is being attacked. I am damn sure FFG will look to destroy the Ditch using foul means in the near future. Nobody challenges the establishment. Martin crossed the line already while ignoring the public service the Ditch did in exposing corruption amongst FF politicians yet again.

Let's see when Collins starts the libel case i.e. never.

But but but but Russia!! Pathetic.

Robert Troy and Damien English were innocent too. I get it. And the ABP guy.

Niall who ?

Ask again at next election 😉

The accusations about Niall Collins/Ditch article are not in all the papers, Niall Collin’s statement regarding it, and what MM said about it are though. Gavin Reilly explained last weekend why the national papers didn’t run the story and didn’t refer to the Ditches allegations, the allegations are weak as a runny shiite and there would be a risk of legal action.

The Ditch’s article is crap, and they have another turd on their site today about an “ex FG TD” and the sale of a nursing home. The home was sold in 2022, the guy hasn’t been a TD since 2002. If that is your type of journalism, you are their target audience.

There is so much squeeling and gnashing of teeth on the thread.

The Ditch must be doing something right.

Probably true, but let’s hope it’s more weighty than the Niall Collins story, if they keep publishing half assed stories which are found to be nothing more than very minor cases of poor judgement, or are seen as the mouthpiece for a disaffected techbro with a gripe against Irish politicians who wouldn’t bow to his ego, people other than simpletons will start to question the site’s relevance.

Exposing real corruption is good, but this crap just immunises people to the important stuff because it makes the site look vindictive and untrustworthy rather than for the public’s benefit.