Aileen Marron is International Officer at the Higher Education Authority, University of Limerick.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Ireland and the Financial CrisisChapter 3. Framing Analysis Part 1: ‘We Can Recover if the Hard Decisions are Made’Chapter 4. Framing Analysis Part 2: ‘Public Sector Scapegoats’Chapter 5. Making News in The Irish Times and the Irish IndependentChapter 6. The Political Economy of News-MakingChapter 7. Conclusion

This carefully researched study provides evidence of an ingrained ideological bias at work in the contemporary Irish press, which simply refuses to countenance alternative diagnoses and prescriptions for major economic crises beyond those dictated by hegemonic neoliberal elites. It paints a picture depressingly familiar from recent analyses of how the financial crash was mediated in the UK, US and elsewhere.

Aileen Marron is International Officer at the Higher Education Authority, University of Limerick.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Ireland and the Financial CrisisChapter 3. Framing Analysis Part 1: ‘We Can Recover if the Hard Decisions are Made’Chapter 4. Framing Analysis Part 2: ‘Public Sector Scapegoats’Chapter 5. Making News in The Irish Times and the Irish IndependentChapter 6. The Political Economy of News-MakingChapter 7. Conclusion

This carefully researched study provides evidence of an ingrained ideological bias at work in the contemporary Irish press, which simply refuses to countenance alternative diagnoses and prescriptions for major economic crises beyond those dictated by hegemonic neoliberal elites. It paints a picture depressingly familiar from recent analyses of how the financial crash was mediated in the UK, US and elsewhere.

Aileen Marron is International Officer at the Higher Education Authority, University of Limerick.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Ireland and the Financial CrisisChapter 3. Framing Analysis Part 1: ‘We Can Recover if the Hard Decisions are Made’Chapter 4. Framing Analysis Part 2: ‘Public Sector Scapegoats’Chapter 5. Making News in The Irish Times and the Irish IndependentChapter 6. The Political Economy of News-MakingChapter 7. Conclusion

This carefully researched study provides evidence of an ingrained ideological bias at work in the contemporary Irish press, which simply refuses to countenance alternative diagnoses and prescriptions for major economic crises beyond those dictated by hegemonic neoliberal elites. It paints a picture depressingly familiar from recent analyses of how the financial crash was mediated in the UK, US and elsewhere.