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A BRITISH MP who has been a prominent voice in the phone hacking scandal has claimed that a Sunday Sun newspaper is to be launched by News International in April.
Tom Watson, who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee investigating phone hacking at the now defunct News of The World, has claimed that News International chairman Rupert Murdoch has seen draft designs of the Sunday Sun which he says will launch in April.
The Irish Sun newspaper referred queries to its corporate headquarters in London. A spokesperson for News International told TheJournal.ie: “We decline to comment on that. We haven’t got a comment on that.”
One former News of The World journalist Sophy Ridge has quelled the speculation, tweeting this afternoon: “Hearing the rumours about a Sunday Sun launching in April are wide of the mark…”
There has been talk that News International would launch a Sunday Sun or The Sun on Sunday ever since the News of The World was shut down in July in the wake of revelations that it had hacked the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Its Irish edition The Irish News of The World was also shut down. It employed 22 full-time staff most of whom were let go with a small few reassigned to News International’s other titles.
At the time staff at the Irish Sun were told their operation would be switching to a seven-day run within the next few months but that has not materialised since.
Now Watson, a Labour MP, claims today that a ‘Sunday Sun’ will be launched in April “at a discounted price”:
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O Christ I hate when Enda goes anywhere. As an Irishman he usually brings out a sense of shame in me anytime he opens his mouth!!!
Thank god Europe doesn’t see him the same way!
A sense of shame is a national character trait, along with begrudgery, catholic guilt and pessimism – sitting uncomfortably with a peculiar self-importance and superiority complex.
”election” my arse, picked in a back filled room based on who’s going to be the biggest wh–re to the army of lobbyists that cling around Brussels
Any chance they could keep him there?
There is, actually!
Only if they lost the receipt Kerry…otherwise they can return him within 30 days..
Tusk would be a decent appointment. His foreign minister, Sikorsky would be even better but is too Atlanticist and a bit too much of a Polish Leo Varadkar to get the job. So long as the post doesn’t go to that Italian, it’ll be grand.
Umm, a word about the democratic “deficit” present in this election. These heads of government have more of an electoral mandate than almost all MEPs, based on the frankly abysmal turnouts for European elections of late. Added to that, few European republics directly elected their own presidents. So calm down.
Well done on actually talking about the subject of the article Fergal.
The point on what I term competing democratic mandates is true. MEPs increasingly seek more power in the face of ever decreasing turnouts in elections primarily focused on national issues than European ones. Despite early figures suggesting otherwise, the last European elections had the lowest ever turnout.
So there really is an argument that Kenny (elected on 70% turnout), Merkel (elected on 71% turnout) and Hollande (elected on 80% turnout) do have more of a democratic mandate than MEPs elected on around 40% turnout.
Jurgen Habermas, the famous German Sociologist and Europhile wrote a excellent piece where he described Europe as now being Post-democratic as a result of the machinations in the EU.
That is what the EU’s friends are saying.
Flying Ryanair business class to save us some money I trust.
Why can’t the people elect the candidates to these top jobs?
Limerick people don’t want that idiot coming to Limerick.
Says the self-appointed spokesperson of all Limerick people I suppose?
Don’t tell me he is going to miss the Mayo attempt to beat Kerry? Does he not like the Gaelic Grounds either??
What on earth are you on about ‘Does he not like the Gaelic Grounds either??’? Do some research next time you jump on the “Down with Enda” bandwagon!
While any Irish politician with a brain would certainly be racing home for the GAA, Enda *may* have more pressing work to do in Brussels!
In fairness to Enda any politician that goes out of his way to be seen at a game of any kind needs to be beaten with a stick and any voter that is influenced by them going or not needs to be beaten around the head with an iron bar.
Bertie was and is an avid sports fan… part of his “man of the people” image.
Would love to beat him with a stick…
He’ll have to be back in limerick for the game this evening
God I hate those ‘Enda goes to…’ films too, they got so repetitive.
It’s the country Enda not the vegetable. ….you vegetable
Enda and Dara … a handy double to lead us on the front line of the European borders… .
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