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IRELAND EDITION monday february 26 2018 | thetimes.ie | no 72468 Printed in Ireland €1.50 Best for sport Ireland must work on defensive errors Eddie O’Sullivan Pages 50-51 Pep wins first trophy for City the game Let’s spend the night together: Rolling Stones to play Croke Park Jennifer O’Brien approved by planners. The band’s No the concerts in Ireland and Britain as cert at Croke Park this summer had the band’s tongue and lips logo Ireland Arts Correspondent Filter tour, which began last year with “very special”. “It’s always exhilarating been lodged. Already scheduled are appeared throughout Dublin under the dates throughout Europe, has been going to cities we haven’t played for Michael Bublé on July 7 and Taylor tagline “No Stopping”. The Rolling Stones will be announced extended to include a concert at GAA quite a while and also some new ve- Swift on June 15 and 16. Keith Richards, 74, said that far from today as the performers for a fourth headquarters. Dates for London, Man- nues,” Jagger, 74, said. “This part of the Support acts for the Stones will be suggesting retirement, the new tour concert at Croke Park this summer, The chester, Southampton, Edinburgh and No Filter tour is really special for the announced soon and tickets for the dates mark a new beginning for the Times has learnt. Birmingham are also scheduled. Stones. We are looking forward to concert will go on sale on March 23. group. “It’s such a joy to play with this The announcement will end weeks of Aiken Promotions will make the getting back onstage in the summer.” Irish fans were speculating about the band. There’s no stopping us, we’re only speculation surrounding the gig after official announcement at 8am today. It was reported this month that a possibility of a Croke Park date last just getting started really,” he said. the standalone show on May 17 was Mick Jagger said that the band viewed planning application for a fourth con- week when several posters featuring Make 2040 ads look like real news, papers told Regional media ‘could not say no’ to revenue Ellen Coyne Senior Ireland Reporter “this was an extremely important revenue raiser for hard-pressed local titles” Regional newspapers were instructed though it is understood that in some to make government advertorials look cases the editors defied the demand like independent stories and in some and marked the advertorial. cases part of “the normal news cycle,” Such content is a regular source of The Times can reveal. revenue for newspapers and is usually Editors at several local titles raised clearly marked. IAB Ireland, an inde- concerns after they were instructed not pendent trade association, says adver- to clearly mark as a commercial feature torials should be “clearly and promi- sponsored content about Ireland 2040, nently labelled and readily recognis- the national development plan. able” as paid-for content. A similar campaign for Creative Ire- In some cases, newspapers were re- Tricoloured tries Ireland made it two victories from three games in the Women’s Six Nations Rugby tournament with a land, the government’s cultural pro- quired to edit supplied Ireland 2040 35-12 victory over Wales at Donnybrook stadium in Dublin yesterday. They face Scotland in two weeks’ time gramme, also banned newspapers from copy. In others, reporters were told to marking its adverts and said that news- “put a local angle” on sections of copy papers would have covered the content from the national development plan. anyway, The Times has learnt. The 15-person strategic communica- Leo Varadkar’s strategic communi- tions unit (SCU) was set up by Mr Var- Good Friday agreement ‘can stop hard Brexit’ cations unit is promoting Ireland 2040 adkar when he succeeded Enda Kenny in an intense campaign that includes as taoiseach. It is led by John Concan- Peter O’Dwyer utterances on the part of the British relationship; alternative solutions to be sponsored content in national, regional non, former head of Creative Ireland. Senior Ireland Business Reporter prime minister . in which she says that put forward by the UK; and a backstop and local newspapers as well as online Creative Ireland ran a similar cam- the Good Friday agreement is not going option of maintaining all regulatory publications and cinema adverts. Many paign, also with Mediaforce, last sum- The Good Friday agreement will force to be set aside,” Mr Flanagan told RTÉ’s rules and procedures, effectively keep- of the sponsored articles were written mer with advertorials designed to look the British government to deliver a soft The Week in Politics. “The greatest ing the North in the customs union. by journalists, with most marked as “in like normal news articles in a number of Brexit that avoids a hard border on the threat to the security of this state comes The Times reported last week that the partnership” with the government. papers across Ireland. Emails told island of Ireland, a minister has said. from dissident republicans along the “bulletproof” backstop would be in a The regional media campaign, which editorial staff that part of Mediaforce’s Charlie Flanagan, the justice minis- border, and a hard Brexit — or a diffi- “protocol” document to run alongside is set to continue for several more “deal” with the government was that ter, said he believed the peace accord cult Brexit — will feed into tensions and the main withdrawal agreement, as weeks, is run by Mediaforce Ireland, the content was not to be marked as would ensure that Theresa May’s gov- could well give rise to difficulties that opposed to within the agreement itself. which also owns Iconic, a publisher of sponsored. Newspapers were also told ernment could not follow through on none of us want.” The protocol would give it the same 15 regional print and online news titles. that no other adverts could run on the plans to leave the customs union and Simon Coveney, the foreign affairs legal standing, it is understood. Senior staff at several newspapers same page. the single market when Britain leaves minister, will meet Michel Barnier, the The Labour Party in Britain is pre- owned by Iconic have told The Times One local editor told The Times: the European Union in March 2019. EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, in Brussels paring for a significant shift in policy by that they were directed by Mediaforce “This is fake news. Newspapers are Doing so would create unnecessary today to discuss the EU’s legal transla- advocating for the UK to remain in a to make sponsored content look like struggling and the government know tensions in border communities and tion of agreements reached last year in customs union to cushion the eco- news. that, so they’ve got us by the balls.” risk a return to violence in Northern the first phase of Brexit talks. nomic blow from Brexit. Sir Keir One source said there was an under- Mediaforce warned that the project Ireland, he said. Three options were presented in Starmer, the party’s Brexit adviser, said standing at senior level in Iconic that “I am encouraged by the repeated December for the Irish border: a new IRELAND EDITION Printed in Ireland thursday october 19 2017 | thetimes.ie | no 72358 Introductory offer ¤1 Mandarin for beginners Blue wave Sport, pages 56-57 The prep school that’s How Dublin surpassed their 2011 master plan gone Chinese Pages 44-45 Border conflict with Britain can be avoided, says Varadkar Niamh Lyons Ireland Political Editor problem” could be avoided. He stressed, but three key areas of phase one negoti- been agreed that, based on the six guid- had restated the Irish-specific issues, however, that it depended on the ations — citizens’ rights, the financial ing principles put forward by the EU, particularly trade with Britain, when he A customs and trade relationship with positions taken by Theresa May’s settlement, and issues relating to Ire- work will start on a common under- spoke with Mrs May by telephone for Britain that is “close to the status quo” is government in the coming months. land — have been the subject of five standing of possible commitments and 40 minutes on Monday. still possible, Leo Varadkar said yester- European leaders were unlikely to rounds of talks between Britain and the undertakings necessary to effectively “It is still possible that the overall day as he travelled to Brussels for a decide that sufficient progress had been EU but deadlock remains. protect the Good Friday Agreement, all outcome of the negotiations is a trade crunch EU summit. made to move to the next stage of nego- Mr Varadkar welcomed progress on its parts, and the gains of the peace and customs relationship so close to the The taoiseach said that after his talks tiations unless something “dramatic” the matters concerning Ireland, includ- process, including avoiding any new status quo that a border problem can be with the British prime minister this changed within the next two days, he ing joint principles on the continuation barriers to trade or movement on our avoided, although that depends very week he believed that the “border said. Some issues have been concluded of the common travel area. “It has also island,” he said. Mr Varadkar said he Cancer drug firm forced HSE to pay inflated fee Aspen raised price for treatment by 600 per cent Peter O’Dwyer position, including the ban on any price Senior Ireland Business Reporter increases. However, the company are adamant they require the price increas- A pharmaceutical company increased es to maintain the products in the Irish the cost of life-saving cancer drugs by market,” she said.

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