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Broadcasting group enjoys stronger performance overall in 2023, a year when it reached its highest ever audience

Government’s deal with RTÉ has reinvigorated calls for public funding from its rivals, while tax credits talk is rarely too far away

Sinn Féin leader in mourning following her father’s recent death but her husband Martin Lanigan’s prognosis is now positive

Both Virgin Media Television and RTÉ are aiming for further digital growth via their players, already the main point of access to content for some viewers

Television: Colin Bateman adaptation of his Border-based play Bag For Life offers everything you need from a bit of Monday night nonsense

The Tonight Show host on why Carrickmines is her favourite place, being a middle child and her feelings about keyboard warriors

Revenge thriller Dead & Buried, the return of Gogglebox Ireland and Grá ar an Trá, and new series Life Actually among shows on Virgin’s autumn line-up

Special offers, contract savings and why you should try to swerve the new ‘streaming TV’ services if you like recording programmes

The GAA has invited ‘expressions of interest’ for media rights, potentially opening up the market for the likes of Virgin Media, TG4 or Sky

Existing licence fee payers will be affected by this deal if RTÉ is obliged to make further programme cuts as a result

Telecoms company expects fault to be repaired by 1pm

Television: The drama is piled high with unpleasant protagonists and wallows in nastiness simply for the sake of it

Virgin Media Wholesale has no entitlement to ask fishing be modified by reason of cable laying, scallop fishers say

Dispute over internal disciplinary proceedings has been settled following mediation

Pricewatch: For some people, losing the ability to save programmes for later is a source of much frustration

Gogglebox Ireland maker will produce Irish version of hit French interview format featuring well-known personalities

Judge says Paul Byrne’s High Court action against broadcaster can be adjourned for a month

Seen & Heard: Offshore energy giant settles with fisherman; Amazon’s take on Irish data centre discussion; Hines’s latest student housing play; Virgin Media’s losses

Hostel-booking group plans to repay remaining €7.5m balance on a AIB loan by end of June, two years ahead of schedule

Paul Byrne claims he was suspended after information he gave in a broadcast turned out to be inaccurate

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?

Tech review: The loss of physical recordings is a shame but there are compensations

Seen & Heard: DNG enters the mortgage broker market; Quanta Capital targets Signa assets; and Virgin Media refused €30m for public service broadcasting

Offerings might look similar, but beware that some are available only with a broadband package, some include annual ‘inflation’ price rises, and some are limited in terms of recording and other features

Television: Disappearances of young women around Leinster in the 1990s are shamelessly upcycled into a gaudy whodunnit

Broadcast rights to the US Open and most men’s and women’s tour events have moved to Sky, but Virgin customers paying for Sky Sports won’t have TV access

Television review: Packing in gritty family drama, puerile humour and astute commentary on Irish racism, Faithless is a win

Norton joined BBC Radio 2 in 2010 on 10am to 1pm Saturday show, taking over from Jonathan Ross, before moving to Virgin Radio in 2021

Patrick Freyne: On Love Island – All Stars, Adam spends much of his time wearing a hat and tiny pants and little else. It’s a classic Irish look

Including Andrew Trimble: For Ulster and Ireland, High Road Low Road and more

Five year plan is in partnership with Portuguese group Greenvolt, which acquired majority stake in Enerpower last year

It would be far too easy to make his nationality central to his shtick, but that’s not how London works

RTÉ coverage of Dublin riot secures biggest news viewership of 2023, with 9pm bulletin on November 23rd the 11th most-watched programme

The cliffhanger-loving BBC reality show is an addictive new year distraction that makes its viewers wait

Belfast-based Bowe has been selling shoes under the name Lloyd & Price for several years but only applied for a trademark earlier this year

Former president says if Irish people know the ‘real situation’, they’re ‘going to be generous’

Eir is fighting ComReg’s decisions to limit its ability to compete on pricing in the market for wholesale high-speed broadband

Lyra Valkyria, aka Aoife Cusack, recently beat fellow Dubliner Becky Lynch to take the title of WWE NXT Women’s Champion

TV review: What makes it to the screen is equal parts twee and hellish – it is telling just how much AI still gets wrong

Laura Slattery: relief all round at Montrose as Toy Show remains an audience phenomenon in post-Tubridy era