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Both the Irish Times and the Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O ' Brien which was used against the IRA.
Tim Pat Coogan declared what he dubbed " editorial war " on the government after a, now notorious, interview between Bernard Nossiter of the Washington Post and O ' Brien in August 1976 regarding the passage of the Emergency Powers Bill.
During the course of the interview O ' Brien stated that he would've liked the bill to be used against teachers who glorified Irish revolutionaries and against newspaper editors who published letters in support of Republicans.
The coalition attempted to prosecute The Irish Press for its coverage of the maltreatment of republican prisoners by the Garda " Heavy Gang ", with the paper winning the case.
Cosgrave was accused of taking an anti-republican or pro-unionist line regarding the north.

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