Rathmines Forum

Trail by Media: Can a person charged with a crime really get a fair trail while being tried by the media? Should the media be discussing a person’s private deeds and misdeeds before they explain themselves?

Think of the Joe O’Reilly and Kearney trials, ponder the O Searcaigh media coverage. Do programmes like Liveline serve to emotionalise and not uniform? Join Brenda Power, broadcaster, Patrick Gageby, SC and John Cooney, journalist, for lively debate.