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Christmas kicks off with RTÉ's annual Late Late Toy Show, made up of 250 toy testers and performers from all around Ireland

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

This year’s theme will be Home Alone, while new features include a parade of children from all 32 counties

Late Late Toy Show: The 1990 film Christmas film Home Alone will be theme for annual RTÉ broadcast and cultural phenomenon

Radio: The Liveline host gleefully performs the audio equivalent of nudges and winks after a general-election weekend that leaves him hoarse

Television: Handed a hit comedy by the BBC, RTÉ has once again fumbled its big punchline

Television: Sensitive and wrenching documentary series recounts the death of Savita Halappanavar after she suffered a miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancy

The Walsh Sisters, which is set to begin filming in 2025, has been billed as a ‘comedy about serious things’

Seen & Heard: Claire Byrne moves on from ‘super-agent’ Kelly; Conglomerates vie for Galway media outlets; Waterford Distillery founder vows to save business

Two long-serving journalists will depart the broadcaster after election coverage as number of shows is cut in half

Over 100,000 new registrations in the two weeks before the closing deadline add to the unpredictability of an election few are confident of calling

Radio: The Hard Shoulder host Kieran Cuddihy gives his guest’s talent for inflammatory opinions full rein – all while discussing his favourite books

Memorial – The Story of HIV/Aids in Ireland review: An empathetic yet unsentimental documentary

TV review: U2 bassist Adam Clayton is a decent presenter and great fun to hang with, but the documentary leans too hard on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake

The main reason for the tepid campaign, though, is that the range of potential outcomes seems limited

Television: Miriam O’Callaghan did her best to add pep to this tedious chinwag but we ended up with pure lethargy

Election 2024: None of three party leaders landed a decisive blow on rivals during final RTÉ debate

Election Daily podcast with Hugh Linehan

Simon Harris claims Fine Gael wanted to ‘offer information’ to broadcaster after his controversial exchange with disability carer

Minister for Public Expenditure says political stability is key due to growing instability across the world

Election 2024: Sinn Féin remembers Coimisiún na Meán and other things gleaned from the parties’ media policies

Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles

It is not clear why exactly Sinn Féin believes such a review is required. It doesn’t appear to know itself

Radio: When the RTÉ host talks to Pat and Aisling Ryan, it’s an intriguing glimpse into an unseen and unglamorous yet vital industry

Television: The podcaster and author taps into the sense of haunting weirdness that runs through Irish history

Séamus Dooley said he would write to Mary Lou McDonald over ‘implied criticism’ of broadcaster

Chat show host moved to London’s Virgin Radio UK last year in the wake of RTÉ’s payments controversy

Party says it will ‘peer review’ RTÉ's objectivity in coverage of international conflicts, including ‘the Israeli genocide in Gaza’

Election Daily podcast with Hugh Linehan

Television: Occasional sparks insufficient to draw viewers out of their pre-election stupor

Green shoots could be seen for Ireland against England at Wembley until everything went to muck

President Michael D Higgins records an LP; the Oireachtas spends more taxpayers’ cash on something it’s not clear we need; and an ex-rugby star encounters some unwanted wingers

Move reflects sales and acquisitions plan outlined in recent five-year strategy, RTÉ: A New Direction

Minister of Public Expenditure and Reform has yet to give approval for a scheme that was meant to see 40 voluntary departures this year

She loved how their friends teased her husband, Late Late Show host Gay Byrne, and she would laughingly tell them to “leave my Gaysie alone”

Broadcaster and wife of Gay Byrne was immensely talented and beloved by many people, her funeral mass was told

Labour and Sinn Féin claim scheme has inflationary effect, increasing price of housing for first time buyers

Television: It takes a while to get going and is not without flaws, but this show is good enough to almost convince us our native tongue is in everyday use

Plus: Brian Ormond’s shoe business missteps, Peadar Tóibín’s distaste for government funding of media, and effing drama in the Dáil

As Northern editor of RTÉ during the 1990s he had a ringside seat at the evolving peace process that culminated in the Belfast Agreement