Today’s Irish Mail on Sunday reports that RTE Radio 1’s Saturday View programme is to be dumped in favour of a satire show featuring Nob Nation’s Oliver Callan and a weekly one hour programme hosted by Charlie Bird. RTE’s Press Office could not confirm the Mail on Sunday’s story but did confirm to me that […]
Over on Politico.ie a fine bunch of people are spending time between now and Budget day liveblogging the myths of the economy, reflecting on the state we are in and all the other phrases that make up what we are told is the ‘national discourse’. The project is part of Budgetjam and there will be […]
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I’m very glad I wasn’t around yesterday listening to the radio when Newstalk decided it was going to do an O’Reilly – I meant Bill O and not Tony O… but hey if it narks Denis O’Brien who cares! If you missed the Newstalk Editorial you can read it in full here. But here’s the […]
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Karen Coleman has released video footage from last Sunday morning’s radio debate on Newstalk between Prionsias De Rossa MEP and Declan Ganley before the off air incident where expletives were exchanged and Richard Boyd Barrett intervened. Did you ever see a grin like it?
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Ivan Yates in case you have possibly missed him is a former Fine Gael minister and former country’s youngest TD turned bookie, stand in presenter on Newstalk and rent a mouth and paid guest speaker. (Really interesting site that – a speaker agency with mouths for hire.) The rent a mouth part has reached epidemic proportions […]