Review: While Sean O’Rourke, on RTÉ, and Pat Kenny, on Newstalk, get stuck in at the National Ploughing Championships, ‘Breakfast Republic’, on 2FM, tries a different furrow

Review: A banker’s remorse makes for rare radio when John Rusnak appears on the RTÉ presenter’s show. On Newstalk, George Hook makes no apologies for his opinions

Blokey gags fail to mask deeper failings. For a lesson in radio control, tune in to Pat Kenny

Joe Duffy’s show on RTÉ Radio 1 turns the capital’s descent into the abyss. Over on 2FM, Ryan Tubridy has an unexpectedly global outlook

RTÉ’s highest-paid presenter should be freed from 2fm duties and returned to Radio 1

Nicky Byrne and Jenny Greene are cheery hosts but stunningly banal. It’s a chirpy John Murray who provides more substance

Independent Broadcasters of Ireland group renews criticism of RTÉ 2fm

Ivan Yates is the big name on Newstalk’s morning show, but his quietly relentless co-presenter steals his thunder

Lacking celebrity guests, the RTÉ host goes for the emotions, but his Today FM rival produces stars as well as tears

The Newstalk presenter marries the trivial and the serious to bracing effect, but Miriam O’Callaghan’s witty remarks fall flat

Undertakers could teach Pat Kenny and Ray D’Arcy a thing or two about tact and discretion

The Westlife singer is a chirpy on-air presence, but his weekday radio show is as bland as his former boy band’s hits

Multivitamin brand’s ‘Performance’ product will sponsor new show targeting young urban audience

RTÉ celebrates country music with abandon but approaches the homophobia controversy with caution

Contrasting fortunes for male-skewed stations Nova and Phantom

The RTÉ presenter’s usual quirky cosiness gave way to sympathetic space for an outsider’s tale, while a garda whistleblower yielded a timely documentary

The ‘commander of the dawn’ Hector Ó hEochagáin signed off in bolshie fashion

It was weird hearing Ryan Tubridy using the B-word in a discussion about women, but at least he showed a little bite. Elsewhere on RTÉ, ‘Pregnant on My Lunchbreak’ was an enlightening documentary about artificial insemination

The uneven tone of Colm Hayes’s show on 2FM echoes his station’s dilemma

The Newstalk broadcaster had too much of an eye on the bottom line at a ceremony to remember the US president

Festival Fit catches the bus

Radio

The 2FM jocks played their listeners against each other, with wildly different results