Six championship matches, free to air on TG4, would be a gift from the GAA to itself
Denis Walsh: Pitching for the package rights to six GAA championship games will be a stretch for TG4 but if they come looking for that package, they should get it
Denis Walsh: Pitching for the package rights to six GAA championship games will be a stretch for TG4 but if they come looking for that package, they should get it
The GAA has invited ‘expressions of interest’ for media rights, potentially opening up the market for the likes of Virgin Media, TG4 or Sky
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Public bodies must ensure that at least 20% of advertising placed is in the Irish language, and at least 5% of budget must be spent on Irish-language media
Lobbies propose €57m for increased Gaeltacht and Irish spending, including extra €26m for TG4
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Wexford legend was key member of the teams that won All-Irelands in hurling’s Golden Age
Television: TG4 has delivered a nice cameo moment in an otherwise wild show
No ghosts, vampires or mummies, RTÉ has told pitching producers. But as it plots its way out of its financial crisis, what type of stories is it bringing to viewers?
April 6th-12th: From Michael Douglas in Franklin to the big reveal in Home of the Year
Television: Irish landscape whisperer Magan addresses a singularly Irish subject – nobody does saintly relics like we do – with impressive gusto
Television review: TG4’s documentary rigorously tracks Finbar Cafferkey Cafferkey’s journey from Mayo to Bakhmut but fails to deliver any real sense of him as a person
Including Andrew Trimble: For Ulster and Ireland, High Road Low Road and more
Garda management have refused to compromise on the rigours of fitness test to join the force
Including the series finale of The Tourist, Chinook: Zulu Delta 576 and Selling Ireland’s Dream Homes
The TG4 series, Laochra Gael, which has become an invaluable archive of modern Gaelic games, will broadcast its 200th episode this March
State papers: Gerry Adams wrote to Irish and British governments about the TG4 issue in 2000, citing commitments in the Belfast Agreement
Television review: Parts of the documentary remind us of the sheer strangeness of Irish folklore
Obituary, Northern Lights, The Dry and Blue Lights brought a critical mass of quality to our screens in 2023, but future is far from certain
From new Dublin-based drama Northern Lights to Louis Theroux’s interview with reformed hellraiser Pete Doherty
From Liz Bonnin’s Caribbean adventure to the true story of an Irish serial killer in London
Powerscourt and Labour Party conference, Eoghan McCabe and interior design, TG4′s annual report, Stripe’s lobbying in Brussels, Fiona Muldoon’s UK roles and new festival of legal ideas
Disappointment in sector at additional allocation of €4.2 million in Budget 2024
Screen Ireland welcomes increase in expenditure cap to €125m amid ‘all-time high’ for film and TV budgets
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From boozing Boris in Partygate to the treacherous tech-fuelled modern dating game in Fool for Love
TG4′s new venture promises to bring playhouses, water games and Nuacht for children through ‘fun and colourful experience’ on screen
Planet Business: Burger King’s Whopper lawsuit, an Australian central banker’s climate warning and industry-themed TV
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Exuberant mood at Irish language broadcaster’s IFI event contrasts with more muted tone of RTÉ post-Tubridy
TG4 director general Alan Esslemont ‘not yet convinced’ of change in State’s thinking on Irish as broadcaster launches autumn slate
From new Star Wars fix Ahsoka to the Rose of Tralee
Live music, vivid history chronicles from Northern Ireland and Australia, and the welcome return of a cross-generational sleuthing team
Including Million Dollar Pigeons, Dial M for Middlesbrough, David Harewood on Blackface and the return of Good Omens
The broadcaster piddled away €2.2m on the Toy Show vanity project, while showing an increasingly obvious disdain for its cultural remit
Briscoe family say senior civil servant Peter Berry lied about attempts to help Jews fleeing Nazi persecution
In an industry where scale counts, relationships between broadcasters and producers in the nations and regions are more vital than ever
Alan Esslemont tells Celtic Media Festival that Government eyes have stopped rolling and he is hopeful ‘things can change’
Producers and executives are attending annual event being held in Ireland for the first time since 2016
Including White House Plumbers, Kevin Moran: Codebreaker, Bloom and more
From the world’s first social media trial in Depp V Heard to a retelling of the Troubles in Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Fiona Kinsella is managing director of Jumper Productions and head of production at Tile Media
Seen & Heard: DAA judicial review, stock market stamp duty loss, RTÉ funding concerns and more
The activist also worked as a journalist with the Irish Press and was a former secretary of the board of Raidió na Lífe
‘Strategic choices’ lie ahead for the broadcaster, according to former TG4 chair and ex-Ardmore CEO now in Montrose hotseat
The TG4 Gradam Ceoil traditional singer of the year mentors young sean-nós singers on her new TV series, Bláth na hÓige
Including George Michael: Outed, Réaltaí na Gaeltachta, The Dry and more
Television: This unassuming travelogue will charm even those who wouldn’t recognise a fada in a police line-up
Seachtain na Gaeilge: Details of Ireland’s largest language festival released
Catherine Martin’s consultation on major events that must be accessible without subscription closed in January 2021, but process was ‘paused’
Former Nationwide presenter was obliged to retire. In Mary Kennedy: Fad Saoil she makes the case that older women still have an active role to play
Henry Gallagher speaks for the first time in a new TG4 documentary about aftermath of Donegal disaster
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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