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Radio

Tastemaker

‘I crave order and organisation. I would like to embrace the chaos a little more’ – Louise Duffy

Louise Duffy, radio presenter, on her approach to domesticity and good advice for what to do in a crisis
  • Ben Haugh
  • January 28, 2023
Media

Irish radio outperforms other media sectors with €158.1m advertising revenues in 2022

Revenues rose 9 per cent across radio last year, ahead of the overall advertising market, according to a new report
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 27, 2023
Appetite for Distraction

What to watch this week: Family solidarity and fortitude put to the test

Teams face strength and endurance tests with the help of sporting mentors in popular RTÉ show
  • Emmanuel Kehoeand
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • September 30, 2022
Media

Willie O’Reilly: Ever wanted your own radio station? Now’s your chance

More than a dozen local radio licences will soon be up for grabs, but getting yourself one of them could be an expensive business
  • Willie O'Reilly
  • July 8, 2022
Media

After years of silence, we now know how the financials of Irish radio. The results are revealing

For many years, radio stations made sure to keep their financial figures under wraps, but the arrival of Ciaran Cunningham’s Radiocentre Ireland has changed all that
  • Willie O'Reilly
  • June 11, 2022
Audio review

Radio and podcast review: An audio journey through the 20th century’s greatest novel

To mark the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s Ulysses, listeners can appreciate the work through essays, lectures and a full RTÉ dramatisation dating from 1982
  • Sara Keating
  • February 13, 2022

Ray Foley interview: ‘Keeping people company is the most important thing’

The new presenter of Today FM’s 2pm-4.30pm show credits the late Gerry Ryan with igniting his love for radio and reflects on the highs and lows of his own career behind the microphone so far
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • February 5, 2022

Radio and theatre: Fifty years on, the events of Bloody Sunday still resonate

An Abbey Theatre reading of Richard Norton-Taylor’s powerful reaction to the the Saville Inquiry in 2010 illustrates the human suffering and the long wait for justice
  • Sara Keating
  • January 30, 2022

Willie O’Reilly: Internet won’t kill radio, but lack of funding might

The popularity of both local and national stations soared during the pandemic, but their survival depends on more than just love
  • Willie O'Reilly
  • December 17, 2021

Radio and theatre: Seasonal thrills with spooky RTÉ podcasts

RTÉ Radio enters the Halloween spirit with scary stories for children, as well as some vintage Dracula coverage and a short story that’s definitely not for the faint-hearted
  • Sara Keating
  • October 31, 2021

Radio review: Pinning down ‘the most dangerous woman in New York’

The strange – and, these days, strangely topical – tale of Typhoid Mary was retold in Sarah Blake’s Documentary On One
  • Sara Keating
  • September 26, 2021

Radio review: Politics on the podium as Olympics reach their climax

RTÉ’s Drivetime analysed how the Games in Tokyo have witnessed a slew of political gestures made by athletes
  • Sara Keating
  • August 7, 2021

Radio review: Haig’s comfort read taps into history’s wisdom to solve today’s ills

Matt Haig, the bestselling author, chatted with Jonathan Healy on Newstalk about mental illness and gratitude
  • Sara Keating
  • July 11, 2021

Radio review: Taking a closer look at silly-season fluff

On Newstalk’s Moncrieff, John Dempsey attempted to delve beneath the glossily vacuous surface of Love Island
  • Sara Keating
  • July 4, 2021

Radio: How our bodies shape our world and how we take them for granted

Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Perry are guests on Guide Books, a radio programme about how books can help us navigate life
  • Sara Keating
  • June 20, 2021

Radio review: Hot town, summer in the city – but who cleans up the mess?

The unsightly scenes in Dublin city centre last weekend gave rise to several days of breast-beating on the national airwaves
  • Sara Keating
  • June 5, 2021

Radio review: Duffy delves into a Tale as old as time

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
  • Sara Keating
  • May 30, 2021

Theatre and Radio: A curse on all our houses as Celtic Tiger troubles continue

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
  • Sara Keating
  • May 23, 2021

Radio Review: Radio goes gaga over end of lockdown

There was giddiness all round in the reporting of the longed-for reopening of services after a hard winter and spring
  • Sara Keating
  • May 16, 2021

Radio: How ‘the ratline’ could turn Donegal into a valley of the squinting windows

Two radio programmes look at the county’s new hotline for reporting Covid breaches – and its social repercussions
  • Sara Keating
  • May 9, 2021

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