Oireachtas committee chair appointments under way ahead of Dáil return next week
Dispute over speaking time for Independent TDs had held up decisions to hand out key roles with €10,880 salary top-up
Dispute over speaking time for Independent TDs had held up decisions to hand out key roles with €10,880 salary top-up
Government has approved €15m for this year to finance voluntary redundancy programme, which is now open
It is understood that the details stipulate that those with over 10 years’ service will receive six weeks pay per year
Use of subject access requests, which originate in EU data protection law, is rapidly growing
Data access requests have already cost the broadcaster more than €100,000 as it worries about potential for fresh controversy
Plus: Michael O’Leary’s brush with the Residential Tenancies Board; and Michael Lynn’s latest legal move
Sinn Féin has claimed the current timetable means committees will not be set up until May
Plus: the Conor McGregor donation that never was; agent Noel Kelly’s unchanged fortunes at RTÉ; and the four Oireachtas members with prize-bond fever
Kelly became a household name during 2023’s RTÉ payments controversy
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’
The sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War, the true story of the Free Willy orca and a conspiracy theory surrounding Avril Lavigne also feature
Many presenters left RTÉ's pop station but Radio 1 had a much more stable year and Newstalk sailed serenely on. The online sphere and the threat of podcasts looms ever larger
Irish Embassy in London hosted the UK launch of former minister for housing’s memoir, Running From Office
Work will include an audit of annual earnings of highest-paid presenters at the national broadcaster
Staff at Department of the Taoiseach prepared four-page primer, including notes on Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot at request of Simon Harris
Mariah Carey pops up with a video message as 150-minute show reaches the finish line with a group performance of All I Want For Christmas Is You
Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles
Chat show host moved to London’s Virgin Radio UK last year in the wake of RTÉ’s payments controversy
Television: Evening reaches a high when Daniel O’Donnell and Shona McGarty perform Kris Kristofferson’s Me and Bobby McGee as host Patrick Kielty looks relieved
Plus: Irish Catholic podcast believes the pope is a very naughty boy; JP McManus’s road woes; and Ciaran Mullooly’s new adviser in Brussels
Former RTÉ chairwoman on ‘vicious’ Dáil hearings, a missed opportunity to fund the national broadcaster and life after being in the public glare of the Montrose psychodrama
As he prepares to publish his fifth novel, a low-key Norton reflects on fame, growing up in west Cork and the Ryan Tubridy debate
Broadcaster set aside €21.7m to meet PRSI liabilities from bogus self-employment in the organisation, records show
Pat Kenny’s listenership rises to fresh record on Newstalk as station claims its highest-ever market share
Presenter welcomes 10% audience climb in his second quarter on Virgin Radio UK, as he surpasses his peak RTÉ listenership
Chairman Terence O’Rourke described 2003 as a ‘difficult and damaging year’ in annual report
Ireland has highest evasion rate in Europe for ‘inequitable tax’ on television set owners, former RTÉ board chairwoman says
No dud moments and no time for toilet breaks as 50,000 fans - including Róisín Ingle - scream and whoop through the hits
The exhilarating and riveting three hour-plus concert in Dublin 4 thrillingly confirms the US singer as an artist who comes along just once in an era
Government agrees to release first tranche of €20 million in interim funding following reform programme
The broadcaster and satirist on political pressure, suffering ‘five years of horrific coercive control’, and replacing Tubridy
Detailed reports may frame broadcaster’s dysfunction, scandal and flawed board but do not map way ahead for a Coalition divided over financing directly by exchequer, household levies, taxation or some hybrid
Sales of TV licences in first four months of 2024 are 15 per cent down on same period last year - leading to €6.7m shortfall
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