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Podcaster Ger Gilroy on moving to RTÉ, his upstart attitude and starting over: ‘Your job is to win, right?’

After 24 years at the helm of Off the Ball on Newstalk, Gilroy has jumped to RTÉ to present a new daily sports podcast, Howler

Christy Moore pays tribute to ‘best man and dear friend’ Dónal Lunny

Childhood friends had a transformational impact on Irish folk music and supported various political and social causes

Ruth Kelly Walsh obituary: Fashion writer who lived life to the full

She was famously gregarious, hosting lunches and dinners in her various homes and in hotels around Dublin

‘It’s been a slow-motion car crash’: Ireland’s postmortems crisis under scrutiny on RTÉ’s Drivetime

Radio: Colm Ó Mongáin and Katie Hannon favour sober reporting, as Oliver Callan hears lurid revelations

More market disruption ahead as streamers go after live sports

Netflix last week announced it had acquired Spanish rights to 2030 World Cup

Cutting Palestine flag necklace from Cheap Irish Homes episode a ‘mistake’, says RTÉ

Show participant wearing necklace was not informed of edit prior to broadcast and lodged complaint with Coimisiún na Meán

Patrick O’Donovan will continue in Cabinet when he recovers from illness, Harris says

Minister for Communications, hospitalised following medical emergency, had faced speculation about his future in Government

Celebrity Traitors: Is James Acaster the worst Traitor in the history of the show?

Television: This tepid second season needs to find a way to raise the temperature in the time remaining

Reward TV licence-fee payers by allowing them to skip ads on RTÉ Listen app

Readers agree with Kathy Sheridan’s annoyance about automated commercials ruining listening pleasure

RTÉ’s Kieran Cuddihy calls out cocaine-use hypocrisy after Waterford murders

Radio review: tetchy exchanges on Liveline; Claire Byrne opts for less contentious coverage

GAA+ reports 25% surge in profits in the year before RTÉ sold its stake

GAA acquired national broadcaster’s shares for €3m in February

Waterford family ‘murdered by gang in arson attack over €20,000 drug debt’, son says

Violent dealers are chief suspects after petrol bombing killed man, his wife and two of their children

I have paid my TV licence long after I needed to. But RTÉ is testing my patience

When it comes to RTÉ, we are paying, we are the product and it has the platform to advocate for itself

Childcare fees and the budget, and Patrick O’Donovan’s row with RTÉ

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

In making a mess of the budget, Patrick O’Donovan may have done us a favour

If public service broadcasting is to retain public trust and integrity, it must be insulated from political pressure

Credit unions win again as Re-turn, Ryanair and RTÉ fare poorly for customer service

Customer experience scores fell globally but hit highest level in Ireland in almost a decade

Letters to the Editor, October 12th: On Wednesday’s strike, prisoner rehabilitation and growing fruit and veg

Government’s approach reflects ‘staggering disconnect from frontline realities’

Áine Lawlor’s new podcast needs to abandon the safety net and take strong positions

Ex-RTÉ presenter’s podcasting partnership with former Newstalk host Chris Donoghue has substance but lacks sizzle

Public sector strike may be difficult to avert at this stage, Minister admits

Preparations are under way for the strike, which will see more than 300,000 public sector workers undertake a work stoppage

Orange Order legal challenge to Garvaghy Road parade ban adjourned to Monday

Chris Bryant uses power to intervene and quash Parades Commission decision

Income from ‘broken’ television licence fee down €5.7m in first nine months

Projected 715,401 television licences to be sold for the year likely to generate about €114.46m, down €8.5m on last year

Coimisiún na Meán has no business taking sides in RTÉ funding row

The regulator should not be acting as an advocacy organisation for the entities it regulates

‘Pablo doesn’t patronise’: The Irish animated show with an autistic star

Eleven-year-old Alexander Myles, from Co Antrim, takes over the main role for Pablo: Next Level, as the protagonist wrestles with the move to secondary school

‘They were all sick of each other by then’: Inside the Government rooms where the budget was made

Fraught last-minute haggling in back rooms dominated the final days of negotiations as spending Minister Jack Chambers dug in

The Irish Times view on the budget process: flawed and short-termist

The system’s shortcomings have been laid bare by the absurd contortions over funding for RTÉ

Tributes paid to former Irish Times journalist Dick Hogan, who has died aged 76

‘His career in journalism reflected his strong values and his many talents,’ says former editor Conor Brady

RTÉ funding snub not a good look for Patrick O’Donovan

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

RTÉ likely to get back €20m lost in Budget 2027 ‘if it proves reforms are on track’

Taoiseach and Tánaiste’s offices intervene with Patrick O’Donovan ahead of crunch meeting with broadcaster’s leadership

Government should apply transparency standards to themselves and their bike sheds

Or is accountability something best demanded of others, like RTÉ?

Lethal Katie Hannon dismantles the budget and dismisses Jack Chambers

Radio: RTÉ host’s precision-guided dismantling of Government’s thinly spread profligacy is arguably more lethal than the brickbats of Opposition TDs

The Lion, the Witch and the Ulsterman on RTÉ: Andrew Trimble takes on the thorny issue of CS Lewis’s Irishness

Television: Lewis is a beloved but polarising figure, which may explain his exclusion from the pantheon of significant Irish literary figures

Last-minute €20m funding cut for RTÉ could have messy consequences

Broadcaster is unlikely to touch its big tent poles, but the breadth of its offering could suffer and some shows could be delayed

RTÉ DG says he has confidence in Minister after ‘constructive’ meeting on funding

Broadcaster’s managing director and chairman Terence O’Rourke met Patrick O’Donovan for just over an hour

Inside the unexpected Budget 2027 move that has shocked RTÉ

In the News podcast: Jack Horgan-Jones has the latest on a Budget 2027 row

Irish Government was warned last year that RTÉ funding was too low

Coimisiún na Meán said broadcaster would face ‘particularly acute’ cash flow issues in 2027

Does Patrick O’Donovan’s explanation for €20m RTÉ funding cut add up?

Row between Minister and State broadcaster raises questions about who knew what in Government about decision

Most skirmishes before and after the budget featured Patrick O’Donovan

Inside Politics: Minister has central role in row over the ‘culture card’ and his decision to cut State subvention to RTÉ by €20 million

Minister signalled Government was set to ‘renege’ on RTÉ deal in budget talks

Minister told Jack Chambers broadcaster’s €260m allocation could not be maintained without more funding for his department

TG4 and Screen Ireland budget funding amounts to ‘cut’ in real terms, industry warns

Concern for independent production sector after €20m reduction in State funding for RTÉ

RTÉ ‘caught off-guard’ by €20m cut in funding in Budget 2027

Patrick O’Donovan said he was not happy with progress to date on broadcaster’s transition ‘more agile, smaller’ organisation

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