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Christy Brown: Self Portrait - commendable attempt at disentangling man from Daniel Day-Lewis movie

Television: Artist largely remembered as a posthumous muse in Oscar-winning My Left Foot

Former RTÉ broadcaster David Davin-Power ‘showed bravery to the bitter end’, son tells funeral Mass

Former RTÉ northern editor and political correspondent died last weekend after short illness

ECHR to examine case of Irishman Oisín Osborn, shot dead by Hamburg police in May 2019

Osborn family believe killing of son resulted from excessive police force

Funeral of David Davin-Power to take place in Marino

Former RTÉ broadcaster will lie in repose at his home on Monday and a requiem mass will take place on Tuesday

Broadcast moratorium made no sense and had to go

Original motivation for the regulator’s now-scrapped guidance reveals just how outdated it had become

Bryan Dobson: David Davin-Power was a natural storyteller in both professional and personal life

Veteran broadcaster had a way of bringing people together, a talent for analysis and a deep respect for the importance of language

Being interviewed on national radio is hard, especially when the host is RTÉ Drivetime’s Cormac Ó hEadhra

Radio: The combative RTÉ host is good-naturedly determined to come out on top in a grilling about Dutch dairy produce in Irish schools

David Davin-Power, former RTÉ correspondent, dies aged 72

Dublin-born broadcaster was presenter on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland and served as Northern Ireland editor

Leathered: Violence in Irish Schools - ‘You looked at a teacher the wrong way and you got a slap’

Television: There are so many victims of corporal punishment, and each of their stories is so upsetting, that after a while anger gives way to numbness

Doctor Odyssey’s core message: just imagine Pacey from Dawson’s Creek holding you tight and saying, ‘Shhh, it’s okay’

Patrick Freyne: Cruising takes on an alternative meaning in this medical melodrama, with Joshua Jackson visiting multiple ports of call

Minister censured by Presbyterian Church for taking part in LGBTI+ religious service on RTÉ

Northern Ireland Corrymeela group said it is ‘deeply concerned’ at the censuring of Dublin minister Rev Dr Katherine Meyer

More Than a Whistle: Who’d be a woman referee? You’d hear ‘You should be cooking the dinner,’ says one

Television: RTÉ’s enjoyable documentary charts the progress that Michelle O’Neill, Joy Neville and Maggie Farrelly have helped soccer, rugby and GAA make

Coimisiún na Meán ‘finalising’ decision on future of broadcast moratorium

Broadcasters and the Electoral Commission have called for it to be abolished

Cillian Flaherty’s funeral told of ‘overwhelming impact’ teen had on his community

Boy (15) had been due to appear as a contestant on the television series Ireland’s Fittest Family

John Creedon: ‘I was always being sent away, not because they didn’t love me, but because they couldn’t cope’

Broadcaster and author reflects on an unusual childhood in Cork, constant low-level anxiety and presenting Winning Streak without understanding the rules

Joe Duffy’s Liveline can sound unmoored when not anchored by weighty subjects

RTÉ presenter hears rambling nostalgia and minor gripes, while Myles Dungan keeps history fresh

The Case I Can’t Forget: Ireland’s first human trafficking conviction is both a positive and depressing tale

Television: The final episode of the true crime series highlighted Ireland’s poor record in tackling modern day slavery

Boy (15) who competed in Ireland’s Fittest Family ‘will be hugely missed by everyone who knew him’

Cillian Flaherty was a third year students at Blakestown Community College in Dublin 15

The Meaning of Life review: A shame Joe Duffy didn’t do better job of bringing context to Sinéad Burke’s life

Television: RTÉ presenter is allowed to display a different side than on Liveline, but Burke needed more context

Sinn Féin and RTÉ clash over Kielty’s TV Traitors joke on Late Late Show

Party says jocular remark reflects ‘far-right tropes’ and demands an apology

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight

From a new series of The Meaning of Life with Joe Duffy to superhero film-making satire The Franchise

RTÉ seems content to let Montrose moulder. It should jump at the chance to move back to the GPO

A proposed return by the national broadcaster to its birthplace is apt as it redefines itself, and could benefit a neglected part ot Dublin

Savaged by Anton: Easy questions for Seán O’Rourke, gentle inquisition for Lynn Boylan

Radio: The former RTÉ presenter joins Anton Savage on Newstalk. Sinn Féin is under fire everywhere

New ‘large scale’ residential development plan expected for €107m RTÉ Montrose site

Cairn Homes purchased the lands in 2017 and planned to commence construction in 2020

GAAGo reports 118% surge in subscription revenue

Joint venture between RTÉ and GAA sees profit jump 47% on broadcast of games behind pay wall

RTÉ was in the GPO before and it didn’t work. Here’s a better idea for the Donnybrook campus

A Digital Media Campus at Donnybrook could be the centre of an N11 media corridor running from Google, TikTok and Amazon near Dublin city centre to Microsoft and Ardmore Studios to the south

‘It tasted good’: Inuk hunter eats brent goose being tracked by Irish schoolchildren

TV series hopes to help build a battalion of young ‘goose detectives’ monitoring flight paths from Ireland to Arctic - and back

Kerry Airport chief warns that Dublin Airport passenger cap is bad for business

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Good Boy comedy marks new era for RTÉ Player

Prominent slots on Montrose app have grown in importance as audiences continue their shift to on-demand viewing

Proposal to relocate RTÉ in GPO considered by Dublin taskforce

Taskforce report contains 10 proposals for initiatives to revive Dublin city centre

Anorexia, My Family & Me review: Heartbreak and hope as Angela Scanlon narrates stories of Irish families hijacked by eating disorders

Television: Commendable RTÉ documentary address an increasingly urgent issue with empathy and without sensationalism

RTÉ Player will ask all users to sign in from next year as it adds more original shows

The streamer, which launches its first Player Original sitcom this week, has seen usage grow after a series of technical upgrades

The Unreal: RTÉ’s family-friendly caper adds a dash of Japanese horror to bring ancient Irish mythology into the present day

Television: The story’s púca, an ancient spirit who escapes from an old VHS tape, is genuinely creepy, a kid’s mascot as reimagined by Clive Barker

Next in line for success? Louis Walsh’s new boy band will have to conquer the primary school market first

Plus: The Ditch doing fine in a post-Paddy world; Fianna Fáil borrows from the DUP; and Brendan O’Carroll’s soft backing of Kamala Harris

Gráinne Seoige: Can she reconcile her celebrity with parish pump politics?

The GAA has traditionally provided Irish politics with instantly recognisable ‘names’ but more recently broadcasters have joined the fray

RTÉ to bring hit reality show The Traitors to Ireland, with €50,000 up for grabs

RTÉ has commissioned an Irish version of the psychological game show, which pits 22 strangers against each other

Consultants in RTÉ governance reviews paid more than €900,000

Department of Media says overall cost of reviews following controversy was €1,146,315

Late Late Show will not be diminished by plan to make it off-site, says RTÉ boss

Broadcaster will not give up editorial oversight of ‘very sensitive’ flagship programme, Kevin Bakhurst tells Sean O’Rourke podcast

RTÉ staff told there’s no room to improve at Montrose

Prohibitive cost of building refurbishments cited as reason why key TV programmes will be produced off-site

Patrick Freyne: Where does Love in the Country find its taciturn Irishmen? I thought they had gone from this isle, like elk and shame

Anna Geary is such a good host that she’d probably want to help rural romantics find the partner of their dreams even if RTÉ wasn’t filming it

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