The Taoiseach will join other Dáil parties to write a letter calling on Communicorp to reverse a ban on journalists from The Currency website and The Irish Times from appearing on its radio stations. Leo Varadkar told Green Party leader Eamon Ryan that he did not agree with journalists being prohibited from radio or TV stations. In the Dáil on Tuesday, Mr Ryan raised the issue of a ban on some journalists taking part in programmes on Denis O’Brien-owned Communicorp radio stations. The Green Party leader said that banning journalists from radio stations “has a very poor effect on our democracy. Mr Ryan said that other party leaders and groupings in Leinster House were of the same view and he asked the Taoiseach to join them in writing to Communicorp asking them to reverse their decision.

Source: The Irish Times October 01, 2019 20:15 UTC