Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Perry are guests on Guide Books, a radio programme about how books can help us navigate life

Michael James Ford’s play relocates to the Phoenix Park to tell the story of the assassination of Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke carried out there in 1882

The unsightly scenes in Dublin city centre last weekend gave rise to several days of breast-beating on the national airwaves

Margaret Atwood’s feminist classic The Handmaid’s Tale, which some teachers want removed from the Leaving Cert English curriculum, was the hot topic on last week’s Liveline

As the housing crisis continues, those running the Irish economy seem destined to make the same mistakes over and over. Even the resourceful Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is unable to get us out of this one

As Bob Dylan prepares to turn 80 tomorrow, a selection of

There was giddiness all round in the reporting of the longed-for reopening of services after a hard winter and spring

Two radio programmes look at the county’s new hotline for reporting Covid breaches – and its social repercussions

The week marked International Poetry Day and the first anniversary of the death of Ireland’s foremost female poet, Eavan Boland

A pair of new documentaries look back at the Arms Crisis and the Northern Bank robbery

The Northern-born actor and his compatriot Judith Roddy jumped at the chance to appear in Frank McGuinness’s eagerly awaited new work, The Visiting Hour

The station’s Reimagining Ireland series covers some interesting subjects, but is ultimately limited by a lack of serious debate

Shakespeare’s classic and David Ireland’s Sadie were both staged for British TV last week, with impressive results

Matters of nationalism and patriotism were to the fore on the airwaves last week

The adventurously commissioned series Spoken Stories obliquely examines the legacy of Irish independence in the lives of citizens today

The details, hurts and truths provide a space for catharsis and echo long after the show ends

On International Women’s Day, female voices on the airwaves emphasised how far women still have to go to obtain an equal society

The unique challenges faced by those who work in the live arts emerged this week, as well-known figures such as Rory O’Neill and Celine Byrne described the losses they have suffered

When it comes to fulfilling its public-service remit, RTÉ is doing a brilliant job at serving its younger community

Sonya Kelly imagines the lives of the three people involved in an incident when a jogger pushed a woman into oncoming traffic on a London bridge