Alan English

@AlanEnglish9

Associate Editor, The Currency. Author of rugby books including Stand Up and Fight: When Munster Beat the All Blacks

Limerick, Ireland thecurrency.news Joined January 2013

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This is a fascinating long read by @cescacomyn. Defamation trials are stressful affairs - and that comes across loud and clear in Francesca's in-depth report on what happened when there was a huge falling out between members of Limerick's An Taisce group
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thecurrency.news How a planning row in An Taisce Limerick became a bitter defamation showdown In August 2021, Brian Leddin, Green Party TD for Limerick, became embroiled in a political scandal over comments he made on a private WhatsApp group about a woman he had been in a sexual relationship...

Alan English @AlanEnglish9 Oct 29

Denis O'Brien interview: His thoughts on suing #Meta and "that fuckwit" #MarkZuckerberg, plus the need to regulate social media ("a fucking bunch of savage, lying c****"). Also: his views on business journalists ("grumpy fucks"), The Irish Times and more
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thecurrency.news Up close with O’Brien: Why he quit the media business and fights “that f**kwit Zuckerberg” It’s coming up to 9am on a Friday morning in October and on the penthouse floor of his office at Dublin’s Grand Canal Quay, Denis O’Brien sits at the boardroom table, immaculate in a dark suit, with...

Alan English @AlanEnglish9 Oct 20

Vincent Browne Interview, Part 1. Two long reads in The Currency, second part tomorrow. With thanks to Vincent and to Bryan Meade for the superb photographs of him in both pieces.
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thecurrency.news Vincent Browne – Part 1: The Broadford altar boy who finally brought Haughey to book He opens the front door at his home in Dún Laoghaire, older now but still unmistakably Vincent Browne. Are there words to describe him? Too many to mention, but he will grimace at any that resemble a...

Alan English @AlanEnglish9 Sep 10

Founded in 1977, Magill shook up Irish journalism like no current affairs magazine before or since. Now it's the subject of an excellent new book by @kevinrafter. I interviewed the author for this long read which runs over two days in @thecurrency.
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thecurrency.news Magill’s turbulent story – Part 1: Fear, loathing, and a magazine that became legendary There’s a two-hander scene in Kevin Rafter’s new book about the rise and fall of Magill magazine that jumps off the page like the dialogue in a Colm Tóibín novel – perhaps because Tóibín himself is...

Alan English @AlanEnglish9 Aug 27

Here's my in-depth interview with Chris Doyle, who who runs Bauer Ireland, the country's biggest independent radio and audio business (Today FM, Newtalk etc). He has lots to say about competing with RTE, hiring Claire Byrne, high-profile exits & much more thecurrency.news/articles/23774…

thecurrency.news Bauer CEO Chris Doyle: “I don’t think creating another version of Newstalk is a strategy” There was a moment during the meteoric rise of Chris Doyle, CEO of Bauer Media Audio Ireland, when it all might have gone horribly wrong. For the first time, Doyle was sitting around a table with...