Vincent Browne on a dark
year for the print media - notable what are seen as respectable papers the Observer
and the Irish Times. From
Myers’s "bastards", to the how…

"the media played dead on the big
stories of the year: the continued gaping inequalities in Irish society, in the
midst of such abundant wealth; the cascading evidence of gross abuse of powers
by An Garda Siochána; the continued use of Shannon for purposes that the state
itself deemed illegal, and now for the illegal kidnapping, and torture of terror
suspects"