Dearbhail McDonald, group business editor of Independent News and Media (INM), is one of the best journalists in Ireland and no shrinking violet. Last Sunday morning, she tweeted a link to a story she had worked on with two of her colleagues, Irish Independent legal affairs editor Shane Phelan and Sunday Independent business editor Samantha McCaughren – both of whom are also highly experienced and well respected professionals.

The story was a terrific piece of journalism: “ODCE claims INM data taken off site and ‘interrogated’ but ‘board did not know’.”