Louise McSharry makes 2FM a safe space for icky storiesIn her temporary mid-morning tenure, she proves you don’t have to be un-PC to entertainSat Apr 13 2019 - 05:00
No meat, two veg: Ray D’Arcy serves up bland fareSpud rant and Jasper Carrott interview are like a diet of root vegetables: filling but dullSat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00
‘People died so we could watch Irish celebrities on Dancing with the Stars?’Radio review: Kieran Cuddihy and Shane Coleman bring fresh energy to Newstalk BreakfastSat Mar 30 2019 - 05:00
Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio goldRadio Review: After initial gruffness, Duffy grows genuinely concerned for his guestSat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00
Borderline gloom as Pat Kenny gets northern exposureRadio review: Newstalk host throws himself into Derry visit, while Mary Wilson hears a warning from historySat Mar 16 2019 - 05:00
Patronising Ivan Yates sounds like a 1970s soccer playerThe ex-government minister and businessman tackles his radio guests like a tough midfielderSat Mar 09 2019 - 05:00
Jarring monologues and baffling trivia: Derek Mooney is a caricature of a daytime radio jockRadio review: RTÉ presenter’s nature programme marred by uneven tone, while Sean Moncrieff hears queasy animal talesSat Mar 02 2019 - 05:00
Eoghan McDermott: ‘I just didn’t like myself when I was drunk’Radio review: With one exception, 2FM’s drink awareness chat sounds like nightclub banterSat Feb 23 2019 - 05:00
Nothing settled as Peter Casey meets Travellers on NewstalkFormer presidential candidate sticks to his guns as radio reporting debut falls flatSat Feb 16 2019 - 05:00
Local hero Damien Tiernan brings Waterford into focusRadio Review: The ex-RTÉ outheast correspondent illustrates the strengths of regional radioSat Feb 09 2019 - 05:00
Joe Duffy: ‘If Nigel Farage found an Irish granny he could become an Irish citizen’Duffy hears from hunters of Irish passports who are ‘basically embarrassed to be British’Sat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00
Last Train to Hilversum review: detail and trivia tuned to magic of radioCharlie Connelly celebrates radio culture as a means of reaching out to a bigger worldSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Ryan Tubridy’s affection for the pint of plain can reach alarming levelsRadio Review: More Proustian than Behanesque, Tubridy is a stout believer in simple pleasuresSat Jan 26 2019 - 05:00
Sean O’Rourke and the judge who is ‘a law unto himself’Radio Review: Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan explains his window breakingSat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00
Just as Larry Gogan leaves 2FM, he turns up on LivelineReview: The most poignant moment is when Gogan reminds us he will still be broadcastingSat Jan 12 2019 - 05:00
Larry Gogan leaves 2FM: Ageless DJ’s golden hour is overThe much-loved, open-minded broadcaster moves to RTÉ Gold at the end of JanuaryTue Jan 08 2019 - 09:24
Baz Ashmawy: ‘I can’t be around people who don’t drink. There’s zero crack’The stand-in wide-eyed RTÉ presenter reveals a lot about himself - but forgets to mention his nameSat Jan 05 2019 - 05:00
Don't have a cow, man: Shane Coleman's festive fare causes uproarNewstalk hosts discuss Christmas menus while Mary Wilson uncovers the facts of evictionSat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00
‘Gnashing of teeth’ as Ryan Tubridy grills Gerry AdamsRadio review: Tubridy’s stern interview with Adams is perplexing, but unintentionally revealingSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:00
Snow White panto review: Gleefully naughty, infectious entertainmentAlan Hughes’s long-running pantomime uses raucous humour to winning effectThu Dec 13 2018 - 15:06
Pat vs ex-pats: Kenny wonders if emigrants have paid their duesNewstalk host is at his most logical during spirited encounter, while Vicky Phelan tells her story to the world in BBC documentarySat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
Ciara Kelly brings fresh perspective to male-dominated NewstalkYear in Culture Review: The news station proved a raucous alternative to staid formulaic radioSat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
Callous courtroom tactics against women put on trial by Marian FinucaneRadio Review: Presenter finds her old fire over sex assault cases as terms gender gap emergesSat Dec 01 2018 - 05:00
Paddy Jackson’s lawyer explains courtroom tactics in Belfast rape trialReview: Airing of explicit detail in this documentary risks voyeurism, but is justifiedSat Nov 24 2018 - 15:00
For whom the bell tolls: Ray D'Arcy tires of the AngelusRadio Review: Presenter’s irritation at religious slot brings him to life, while Sean O’Rourke needs time to reflect on his show’s adversarial approachSat Nov 24 2018 - 05:00
Goodbye George Hook. You should have stuck to your plan and quit in 2016Mick Heaney: The attention-loving shock-jock has announced his retirement. It’s overdueThu Nov 22 2018 - 17:45
Joe Duffy and Myles Dungan make hidden history a thing of the pastRadio Review: RTÉ presenters look at historical events from different angles but both bring welcome perspectivesSat Nov 17 2018 - 05:00
Commuter ‘hell’: €3,500 a year for packed, delayed trainsRadio review: Newstalk’s Henry McKean reports from inside ‘a sardine can on wheels’Sat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00
Is that Ivan Yates or an ostrich with its head in the sand?The Newstalk presenter is in jocular mood about wild animals being wiped outSat Nov 03 2018 - 07:00
Morbid fascination: Ciara Kelly talks life and death in Tuam homeNewstalk presenter uses her medical background to telling effect, while Sean O’Rourke sticks to the grim factsSat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline pantoReview: Duffy is getting his practice in for his role in the upcoming Snow White pantoSat Oct 20 2018 - 05:00
I can’t help feeling that George Lee relishes breaking bad newsRadio: The environment editor’s voice dips more than usual as he relays the imminent ArmageddonSat Oct 13 2018 - 05:00
Huffing and puffing Bobby Kerr, a magic dragon for lazy SundaysThe Dragon not running for president brings a genial appeal to his Newstalk showSun Oct 07 2018 - 09:39
Mining Stories review: Innovative, resonant take on a dam-burst disasterDublin Theatre Festival: Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere bring a light touch to their weighty materialMon Oct 01 2018 - 10:17
Sean O’Rourke boxes clever as Brexit rematch turns bitterPresenter proves hell hath no fury like an economist scorned, as Volt fails to impress MoncrieffSat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00
Serial series 3: A modest show with much to be modest aboutReview: The long-form US crime podcast has gone back to basics. A little too basic, actuallyWed Sept 26 2018 - 00:04
Peaches Christ Superstar review: Cult singer’s rock opera triumphDublin Fringe Festival: Transgressive electro artist brings bravura spirit to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musicalMon Sept 24 2018 - 11:55
2FM: A frenetic world of squawky voices and auto-tuned popThe home of Nicky Byrne, Jenny Greene and Eoghan McDermott has some unlikely fansSat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00
My Dad’s Blind review: Singular vision of a life marred by blindnessDublin Fringe Festival: Two-hander is marked by visual flair and dark comedyThu Sept 20 2018 - 13:09
Robert Ballagh: ‘Betty was really good at assessing things. I don’t have that any more’The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and artistic compass, Betty, who died in 2011Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
Newstalk’s Captain Sensible and Sid Vicious bicker onIt can be easy to forget that Shane Coleman and Paul Williams have formidable news pedigreesSat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
Running + Walking In The Phoenix Park review: Offbeat jogging show runs out of breathDublin Fringe: Multimedia drama on traversing Dublin’s municipal space has absorbing elements but eventually wears thinFri Sept 14 2018 - 11:15
Ireland's Call review: A stark anthem to life on the marginsDublin Fringe Festival: John Connors lends a charismatic presence to his polemical portrait of urban deprivationThu Sept 13 2018 - 11:30
Brendan Galileo for Europe review: A frenetically enjoyable one-man showDublin Fringe Festival: Fionn Foley is irresistible as an anti-establishment politicianWed Sept 12 2018 - 10:37
Agony uncle Ray D'Arcy gives relatively good adviceD’Arcy doles out the advice while admirably brisk Mary Wilson is baffled by midlife crisesSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Miriam O’Callaghan’s unrelenting grilling of ‘posh’ Eoghan MurphyO’Callaghan shows a different kind of class in her inteview with Jastine Valdez’s parentsSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Could happen to a bishop: Excruciating seconds of dead airRadio review: Presenter Gavin Jennings asserts his authority on ‘Morning Ireland’Sat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Katie Hopkins’s only talent: being tiresome and repellentRadio: 4FM’s Niall Boylan invites Hopkins on to discuss race relations. It’s shock-jock overkillSun Aug 19 2018 - 16:21
Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else matteredMick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around herThu Aug 16 2018 - 15:44
No contest as majestic Miriam O’Callaghan wears her crown lightlyPresenter brings overlooked strengths to ‘Today’ show, while Liveline has unlikely glowSat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00