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Erica Cody: ‘An album is a defining point so I want it to be something really special'

The Dublin singer/songwriter has always done things her own way, so much so that she won’t release her debut until she is satisfied

Changing channel: can RTÉ keep its focus and remain relevant in the digital age?

A glance at RTÉ’s finances is enough to show the national broadcaster is not on a sustainable footing. While this has been the case for the past 20 years, it is now faced with competition from a multiplicity of streaming services. Some argue that it should identify and concentrate on core activities. But what are those core activities?

Outgoing RTÉ chair ‘deeply concerned’ about future of broadcaster

Moya Doherty will tell politicians that a confluence of factors including the rise of social media have left RTÉ facing a ‘genuinely existential moment’

Jim Fahy was ‘such a professional, lovely, decent, kind man’

The tireless and respected former RTÉ Western correspondent was buried today

Public spending and revenue pared down in pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a dampening effect on state finances, a new set of accounts by the Comptroller & Auditor General has revealed

Profits down 36% at RTÉ’s commercial arm as Covid hits revenue

RTÉ Commercial Enterprises reports profit of €5.41 million for 2020, down from €8.51 million the previous year

Willie O’Reilly: Board appointment put Bass in difficult position

Surely, by now, politicians should be aware of conflicts of interest when making appointments to state boards

TV Review: Rooms with plenty of views in a stroll down memory lane

The RTÉ current affairs presenter Áine Lawlor joined Brendan Courtney for an entertaining look back at the various homes she has lived in

“I don’t know what I want to do but I just know I haven’t done it”

Aidan Gillen has already played more diverse characters than other actors depict in several careers. But this, he tells Edel Coffey, is only the beginning.

TV review: Christy Moore’s musical voyage still going strong after 52 years

Mark McLoughlin’s 2016 documentary focuses more on the singer’s strengths as a performer than on his life and times

What the pandemic has taught us about virtual schooling

September brings with it the beginning of the academic year. We are still not quite back to student life as we knew it, but this time we have options and we are a lot more tech savvy this year –we just need the funds

TV review: Division and delirium as a Constitutional relic was removed

Aideen Doyle, Lucy Kennedy and Maeve O’Brien’s documentary The 8th looked back at the social tumult and occasional rancour that accompanied the abortion referendum of 2018

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

John Gibbons: It is astounding that the climate crisis is not routinely headline news

The Irish media need to shake off their provincial mindset and give the public the coverage this existential crisis so desperately deserves

Interview: David Gillick, former track and field athlete and RTÉ broadcaster

It’s a different kind of adrenaline buzz to winning gold medals, but David Gillick has grown into his role as an RTÉ broadcaster and is now heading to the Tokyo Olympics

TV review: Euro 2020 ended with a lesson in genuinely unsporting behaviour

Between fans behaving badly in and around Wembley and the English team removing their medals, last Sunday’s match didn’t quite live up to its promise as a great sporting occasion

TV review: Some uncomfortable home truths for Portillo on his trip through Irish history

Former Tory defence secretary Portillo learns about Home Rule, while Andrew Neil’s GB News proves to be an odd concoction straight from Bunker Britain

Michael Portillo plans new documentary about Irish Civil War

Former Tory defence secretary is to follow his recent successful forays into Irish history with an exploration of the bitter, post-Treaty conflict

RTÉ settlements topped €20k five times since 2019

The national broadcaster has faced proceedings 11 times in the past two years, it told the Public Accounts Committee

TV review: A busman’s holiday for Bannon as he navigates a small world

Architect Dermot Bannon made a brief return to Sunday night TV with a two-part show that looked at clever builds and conversions