Kathryn Thomas

The Skinny Jab Revolution review: Kathryn Thomas’s film shines a light on Ozempic. If only it were less coy about Operation Transformation

Television: In her new RTÉ documentary the presenter takes a very personal approach to weight-loss drugs

Mon Mar 03 2025 - 22:30

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 2nd-7th, including Towards Zero, The Academy Awards, The Skinny Jab Revolution and Réaltaí na Gaeltachta

Sun Mar 02 2025 - 05:00

Kathryn Thomas: Myself and my husband doing DIY jobs together – I’m thinking: Why did I marry this person?

Television presenter Kathryn Thomas on the trouble of DIY jobs with her husband, her favourite place in Ireland and more

Sun Sept 15 2024 - 06:00

New Zealand’s Keely O’Grady wins Rose of Tralee 2024: ‘I can’t really put it into words. I’m shaking so much’

Television: ‘What I’m most looking forward to is doing this for my country as an International Rose. We’ve only had two New Zealand Roses. It means a lot to me’

Tue Aug 20 2024 - 23:18

The Rose of Tralee 2024 first night review: Card tricks, harp-playing and The Proclaimers parped out on the bagpipes

Television: It’s the 63rd year of the contest that Father Ted paradied as the Lovely Girls Competition, and there’s no sign of it running out of steam

Tue Aug 20 2024 - 00:08

Rose of Tralee: what time does it start, who will win and everything you need to know

Television: Contest has survived huge changes in society and remains popular – if controversial – part of national calendar

Mon Aug 19 2024 - 16:23

Kathryn Thomas takes inspiration from nature’s hue to lovingly give her grandparents’ Wexford home a small makeover

Take inspiration from the great outdoors if you want to create a calming and comforting home with Dulux Heritage paint range

Wed Jul 03 2024 - 05:00

TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch this week

Ralf Little returns as the neurotic but brilliant detective Neville Parker while The Hairy Bikers are going west

Sun Feb 04 2024 - 05:00

Operation Transformation: The show could do with taking a step back and putting its feet up

Television: this love letter to everyday fitness has always been a bit flabby at the edges

Thu Jan 04 2024 - 10:00

My BodyFix review: Kathryn Thomas is empathetic as serious health issues shared

Television: It’s hard to understand how a heart patient’s health issues are illuminated by the 3D component of My BodyFix

Tue Oct 24 2023 - 21:00

TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight

From Ireland’s latest clash with New Zealand in RTÉ thriller Gone, to multicultural marriages in A Ring and a Prayer

Sun Oct 22 2023 - 13:30

Rose of Tralee 2023: Brianna Parkins on the real winner of this year’s competition

Television: Only the strongest can survive the contest’s format of doing a tell-us-about-yourself exercise in Spanx and a ball gown on live television

Wed Aug 23 2023 - 00:56

Roses seek to set themselves apart ahead of big day in Tralee

Thirty two hopefuls, including first ever married contestant, to compete for crown in five-day festival

Tue Aug 15 2023 - 18:33

‘Tralee here we come!’ says Kathryn Thomas, co-host of Rose of Tralee

Thomas is joining Dáithí Ó Sé on his 12th year as presenter of the Kerry festival

Thu Jul 27 2023 - 06:00

Noel Kelly agency owns Operation Transformation name, company filings show

RTÉ says it would be happy to disclose contractual arrangement with Kelly if it was given permission to do so

Tue Jul 11 2023 - 08:35

Jennifer O’Connell: RTÉ's influencers are at the murky nexus of commercial and public interests

Does it really matter if Doireann Garrihy eats her #sponsored porridge in an RTÉ studio or Marty Morrissey has a borrowed car? The short answer is yes

Sat Jul 08 2023 - 07:45

When you remove the tough love from Operation Transformation, what’s left?

Television: RTÉ's annual fitness frenzy has dropped its humiliating weigh-in segment, but it’s all a bit flabby

Thu Jan 05 2023 - 05:00

Travel News: Mountain walks and rooms with views

The best travel deals around Ireland and abroad this week

Sun Apr 17 2022 - 06:00

Operation Transformation 2022: Should the ‘triggering’ show be decommissioned?

Eating disorders group seeks ‘more inclusive’ approach. Others just want the show cancelled

Wed Jan 05 2022 - 14:50

‘As a result of climate change and equality fast fashion does not have the same appeal it once had’

Wild Geese: Claire O’Connor, London

Fri Nov 12 2021 - 05:37

Firm linked to maternity consultant in €1.5m tax settlement

Medical doctors prominent on latest tax defaulters list

Tue Sept 14 2021 - 15:31

Go ahead, make my day: Pat Kenny gets all Dirty Harry about street ‘yobs’

Radio: The Newstalk host hears lurid tales of ‘urban terrorism’ on the streets of Dublin

Fri Aug 20 2021 - 06:00

Great getaways: Health retreats and seafood walks to enjoy this summer

Travel News: Have a staycation in Louth with gorgeous scenery and a relaxing cruise

Sat Jul 10 2021 - 06:00

Covid-19 silences the bells of Christ Church Cathedral on New Year’s Eve

Centuries-old tradition another casualty of the stricter lockdown

Wed Dec 30 2020 - 20:06

Demand for older peoples’ charity services triples due to Covid-19

Alone has received 37,000 calls from older people to support line since pandemic hit

Fri Nov 27 2020 - 20:58

Kathryn Thomas goes staycationing just as new travel restrictions come in

TV review: The RTÉ host is like the Ghost of Holiday Plans Past in No Place Like Home

Mon Aug 10 2020 - 14:42

Profits at Operation Transformation company decline 25%

Vision Independent Productions launched two new formats in 2019, a ‘strong year for TV’

Fri Jul 31 2020 - 01:00

Operation Covid Nation: ‘What the actual f**k?’

RTÉ is right to make a show about coping with coronavirus. But scrap the trivialising name

Thu Mar 26 2020 - 15:09

Accumulated profits at Kathryn Thomas’s media company rise to €420,000

Thomas currently presents RTÉ’s television ratings hit Operation Transformation

Tue Jan 28 2020 - 04:56

RTÉ’s commercial arm increases pretax profits to €8.89m

Sales of Operation Transformation and Hardy Bucks contribute to 22% rise

Wed Oct 16 2019 - 11:31

Coffee-table push-ups and hoover aerobics: Kathryn Thomas’s home gym

Working out in your own home doesn’t take a load of expensive gear, says the fitness star

Sat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00

Operation Transformation: Final weigh-in says they lost 10½ stone in eight weeks

Paramedic Cathal Gallagher records the greatest weight loss of any of this year’s leaders

Wed Feb 27 2019 - 22:35

Operation Transformation: Leo Varadkar – 40-year-old meat-free gym bunny – is actually 53

Review: The Taoiseach takes a metabolic age test, but questions the science behind the result

Thu Feb 07 2019 - 05:46

Profits up at Kathryn Thomas’s media firm

Accounts for Aquarius Productions show rise of €37,288 in 12 months to end February

Wed Jan 30 2019 - 01:00