OPINION

Read behind the headlines

‘DON’T believe everything you read in the papers’, was the old adage.

And today it’s the perfect advice for half the things that pop up on Twitter, Facebook and TikTok

Above all, don’t be satisfied with the obvious story and always look behind the headlines.

The experienced hands at the Olive Press have decades of national newspaper experience behind them and we know dogged determination is needed to get to the root of the matter.

It’s sometimes called good old fashioned journalism, at other times digging.

But above all, it’s always worth going the extra mile to get to the truth.

Two stories in this issue exemplify this.

On our front page we tell the heart-rending story of a former soldier behind bars accused of strangling his girlfriend on holiday.

While investigations into Kirsty Ward’s death continue, Keith Byrne languishesin jail thousands of kilometres from his three young children.

To make matters worse, sensationalist reporting in the international media has all but dubbed him a murderer, as well as claiming he’s (wrongly) a member of the Kinahan crime gang.

Only the Olive Press has actu-