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’
Ryan Tubridy
Podcasts of 2024: 10 of the best shows from the past year, from Keep It Tight to Who Trolled Amber?
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
2024 in radio: chaotic exodus of Doireann Garrihy, Jennifer Zamparelli and the 2 Johnnies hangs over 2FM
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
Public funds used for Eoghan Murphy’s UK book launch at Irish Embassy
Irish Embassy in London hosted the UK launch of former minister for housing’s memoir, Running From Office
RTÉ puts out to tender €990,000 external audit contract
Work will include an audit of annual earnings of highest-paid presenters at the national broadcaster
Taoiseach briefed on changes to Roald Dahl book before appearing on Ryan Tubridy podcast
Staff at Department of the Taoiseach prepared four-page primer, including notes on Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot at request of Simon Harris
Late Late Toy Show review: Patrick Kielty is fuelled by enough raw adrenaline to power Santa’s reindeer
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
Is this the final chapter for Books at One as Dublin and Cork shops close?
Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles
Ryan Tubridy’s media company returns to profit
Chat show host moved to London’s Virgin Radio UK last year in the wake of RTÉ’s payments controversy
The Late Late Country Music Special: Not quite up there with the Toy Show but in the same ballpark
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
Agent Noel Kelly bounces back after Tubridy controversy
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
Siún Ní Raghallaigh, seven months after RTÉ affair: the Oireachtas hearings were ‘vicious. People were unfairly treated, as if they had no rights’
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
Graham Norton: ‘Angry people want you to lose rights. I hope young gay people are up for the fight’
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
RTÉ faces rising tax bill to settle status of hundreds of workers
Broadcaster set aside €21.7m to meet PRSI liabilities from bogus self-employment in the organisation, records show
Oliver Callan now has more listeners on Radio 1 than Ryan Tubridy did a year ago
Pat Kenny’s listenership rises to fresh record on Newstalk as station claims its highest-ever market share
Ryan Tubridy’s UK radio show pulls in more than half a million listeners
Presenter welcomes 10% audience climb in his second quarter on Virgin Radio UK, as he surpasses his peak RTÉ listenership
RTÉ reports €9.1m deficit last year as Liveline host Joe Duffy highest paid with €351,000 package
Chairman Terence O’Rourke described 2003 as a ‘difficult and damaging year’ in annual report
Keeping RTÉ licence fee would be ‘deeply disappointing’ - Ní Raghallaigh
Ireland has highest evasion rate in Europe for ‘inequitable tax’ on television set owners, former RTÉ board chairwoman says
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is not just a concert, it’s a love story - and Dublin said yes
No dud moments and no time for toilet breaks as 50,000 fans - including Róisín Ingle - scream and whoop through the hits
Taylor Swift in the Aviva review: ‘You know this but nobody does it like you Dublin’
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
RTÉ's Late Late Show and Fair City to be produced off Montrose site under new strategy
Government agrees to release first tranche of €20 million in interim funding following reform programme
Oliver Callan: ‘I should have got the same as Ryan Tubridy was being offered’
The broadcaster and satirist on political pressure, suffering ‘five years of horrific coercive control’, and replacing Tubridy
TV licence sales continue to plunge, leaving €6.7m shortfall in RTÉ funding
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
RTÉ funding options a source of conflict with no clear resolution in sight
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
RTÉ funding by hybrid model may be ‘worst of both worlds’, Catherine Martin says
Three reports outline litany of operational and management flaws at Montrose
RTÉ controversies: Broadcaster ‘lost’ records relating to three years’ transactions in barter account, says report
Barter account system ‘hiding in plain sight’, according to one of three reports into HR, governance and finance published on Tuesday
Larry Masterson obituary: RTÉ producer and social justice campaigner
At Montrose he worked on The Live Mike and guided The Late Late Show through its difficult transition out of the Gay Byrne era
Good timing pays off again for Cecelia Ahern
Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names
Angela Scanlon to take over Graham Norton’s weekend Virgin Radio UK show
Meath native joins Ryan Tubridy on station’s roster of Irish presenters
‘I’d like a break from being abused all the time’, says TV licence inspector in wake of RTÉ crisis
Bill O’Sullivan says situation at doors of homes got ‘hot and heavy’ last July when scandal relating to Ryan Tubridy’s pay first came to light
The Bookshelf: Ryan Tubridy’s new podcast may be the best vehicle to date for this one-time Jack of all RTÉ
Podcast review: The former RTÉ broadcaster’s new show plays to his strengths – but it’ll need to push him out of his comfort zone
Ryan Tubridy’s new books podcast to launch next week
Former RTÉ 1 presenter will speak to international guests about their life stories through the prism of books
RTÉ board members discussed concerns around potential of ‘reckless trading’ at broadcaster
Then-chair of the RTÉ board Siún Ní Raghallaigh confirmed that she had placed the issue ‘on record’ with the Department
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