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Look back in nostalgia: RTÉ seeks new sponsor for Reeling in the Years
Broadcaster has priced sponsorship deal for repeats of the enduringly popular news archive series at €100,000
Documentary on GAA referee abuse lets players, coaches and fans off the hook
Television review: GAA referee David Gough provides fascinating insights but overall this film needs to dig deeper
‘Vile, dismissive, disappointing’: Samantha Mumba and Donal Skehan in war of words over Eurovision judging
Eurosong judging panellist Donal Skehan responds to Mumba’s criticisms ‘tearing others down is never a good look’
The Great House Revival: Hugh Wallace keeps up the cheery vibes against a backdrop of general misery
Television: The chummy Hugh Wallace brings what positivity he can to a stalled project as meitheal helps overcome misery
Taoiseach signals possible end to Rent Pressure Zones by end of year
Micheál Martin argues that private investment needs a stable environment to increase housing numbers
How Senator Aubrey McCarthy befriended notorious murderer the Black Widow
Plus: Still waiting for Shane Ross to dish the dirt on RTÉ; ex-Ireland player’s country house plans hit a brick wall and team Trump take aim at an Irish ‘DEI musical’
Irish star conductor David Brophy on his big new job in Germany: ‘You only become competent when you’re 60′
The Dubliner is thrilling critics at his new musical home in Cologne but he still finds time to worry about Ireland’s cultural capital
Unforgotten star Sinéad Keenan: ‘UCD had an awful lot of arty-farty people. I felt, oh Jesus, I can’t compete with that’
The Dublin actor got her break in Fair City more than 20 years ago but left for London soon after. Now she plays Jess James, the Irish top copper in ITV’s acclaimed cold-case crime drama
Who is Evanne Ní Chuilinn? From RTÉ sports broadcaster to Fine Gael Senator
The former RTÉ sports broadcaster is one of Fine Gael’s five nominees for the Seanad
Emmy’s song about a dead Soviet space dog gets the Eurovision nod in entertaining Late Late special
Television review: Six acts stretched over two hours threaten a slog but RTÉ almost gets douze points for Friday night entertainment
Marty Whelan’s wonderful world has extra appeal in dark times
The genial Lyric FM breakfast presenter has seen his audience swell to an all-time high. Is he the audio salve more of us need in 2025?
Begin Anywhere: ‘It’s like your daughter was told her dress wouldn’t arrive until the day of the wedding – but it’s a Dior!’
Choreographer John Scott and composer Mel Mercier have adopted techniques of Merce Cunningham and John Cage for new collaboration
‘The best thing about Ireland is that people will put themselves out of their way to help you’
Irish wasn’t Caoimhe Ní Laighin’s first language growing up, but with the help of good teachers, the presenter made it part of her career
Seán Moncrieff’s on-air persona cracks, and a dishwasher meltdown follows
Radio: Newstalk host Seán Moncrieff is at his best when discussing niche subjects that allow stimulating digressions
Brendan O’Connor enjoys biggest gain in radio listenership in 2024
RTÉ Radio 1 records higher audiences across its weekday schedule in period including general election
John Clarke, husband of Marian Finucane, dies aged 88
Mr Clarke’s death comes five years after that of his wife who died suddenly in January 2020
An Post boss defends stamp price increase amid rising costs and falling usage
Cost of sending a letter has increased 40 per cent since 2020, Garret Bridgeman said
The Late Late Show Eurosong special 2025: When is it on, who are the acts, who picks the winner and more
Everything you need to know The Late Late Show’s annual Eurosong special to choose Ireland’s Eurovision Song Contest entry
Should RTÉ stop showing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so much?
Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan says reruns of old films won’t cut it for Montrose. Who’s going to break the news to Dick Van Dyke?
RTÉ told it must double down on reform and structural change
Incoming Minister for Arts and Media Patrick O’Donovan met with broadcaster’s director general Kevin Bakhurst and its chair Terence O’Rourke at Montrose
Marty Morrissey: ‘I’m an only child of an only-child dad and an only-child mum. I’ve no aunts, uncles or first cousins’
The broadcaster, author and RTÉ GAA correspondent and commentator is clear about which actor should play him in a biopic
RTÉ reforms in limbo as pressure mounts on minister
Seen & Heard: Glenveagh’s €55m land deal; BT to sell Irish telecoms business; Student beds deliveries falter; Bankinter pours cold water on savers’ hopes
Joseph O’Connor: ‘I don’t know what modern Ireland is yet. I’m suspicious about the new sacred cows’
The Irish novelist on taking instruction from Vincent Browne, finding his way in fiction as a young man and coming to understand that the best writing has an inherent musicality
Siobhan Lam joins RTÉ’s Home of the Year judging panel
Home of interiors shop founder has previously been featured on the series
Ray D’Arcy conjures up a Storm Éowyn image that would leave anyone feeling disconcerted
Radio: At least the RTÉ host is doing his bit to help out. Government Ministers seem caught in the headlights
Daire Hickey steps down from RTÉ board
Businessman served on the organisation’s board through some of its most turbulent years
Irish advertising market will expand 7% this year, forecasts Core
Growth in television revenues set to be slower than in 2024, while print is expected to decline further
IT consultancy Auxilion to invest €10m as it plots UK expansion
Separately, catering and facilities management group Mount Charles plans to create 2,000 jobs
I am now very fit. I am ready for Ireland’s fittest family to adopt me
What golden specimens they are, you think, as they propel themselves across God’s good earth like Accenture employees here to rationalise a business
Ireland’s 2025 Eurovision entry: The six Eurosong acts vying to represent Ireland
The pressure is very much on with Bambie Thug putting Ireland back on the Eurovision radar with a commendable sixth-place finish in 2024
As Claire Byrne gets caught up in the Leinster House chaos, Richard Boyd Barrett almost chokes on his outrage
Radio: Reporter Barry Lenihan colourfully describes the political spectacle as having ‘descended into scenes more akin to Camden Street at 2am on a Saturday night’
Julian Benson: ‘I got a call out of the blue in October to say there was a kidney for me’
The choreographer and former Dancing with the Stars judge on living with cystic fibrosis and his CF charity
Doireann Garrihy returns to RTÉ 2FM as part of new line-up announced for station
Last May Garrihy left 2FM Breakfast after five years saying it was ‘time for ventures new’
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