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Free Now ends sponsorship of Tommy Tiernan show over offensive joke

The company said it was disappointed with the comedian’s comments ‘regarding taxi drivers’ which one audience member described as racist

Channelling change: Siún Ní Raghallaigh faces the challenge of knocking RTÉ into shape

Siún Ní Raghallaigh, new chair of the national broadcaster’s board, has a wealth of experience and an undisputed appetite for challenge – and that’s certainly what awaits at the state broadcaster

Concrete firm seeks to stop RTÉ ‘breaching’ confidential settlement deal

Kilcarrig Quarries has sought a court order stopping the broadcaster from reporting details of an agreement it claims to have reached with a farmer in Co Wexford in 2020

Matt Cooper: Sunak’s cabinet of curiosities does not inspire hope for an end to the madness

Britain’s latest prime minister has picked familiar faces in his cabinet, but Ireland should hope that he seeks a new path on Brexit

Virgin Media hits out at ‘fundamentally unfair’ spending code at RTÉ

Commercial broadcaster asked Catherine Martin, the Minister for Media, if she was satisfied with agency’s spending on content ‘already available to consumers elsewhere’ including UK and US box sets

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Cheap Irish Homes presenter now making a move on Europe

Following the successful RTÉ series for house hunters, Maggie Molloy is now on a mission to find cheap properties on the continent

Matt Cooper: More drama is as much about income as it is about entertainment value for RTÉ

The state broadcaster has announced more than 40 hours of original Irish drama in its autumn schedule – but how will it fare against the seemingly bottomless budgets of content behemoths like Netflix and Prime?

Willie O’Reilly: Pickled cucumber time as the media runs short of news

The anniversary of Michael Collins’s death falling in August is a huge boon to a media desperate to fill their airtime and column inches with something – anything – during the silly season

Matt Cooper: Time for the government to back up praise for the media’s work with real action

Newspapers are making the transition to digital formats and need to charge for their online content. Because of the licence fee, however, RTÉ can give it for free, which hardly seems fair

RTÉ in sponsorship drought as A-list radio and TV programmes up for grabs

Clare Byrne, Joe Duffy and Brendan O’Connor’s radio shows and the 2022 Fifa World Cup are among those still without deals

Willie O’Reilly: Trust in our media is something we should treasure

The results from the recent Reuters Institute report show that the respect the public has for news reporting here in Ireland is not to be taken for granted

Claire Byrne Live taken off air after seven years

Byrne said she would be focusing on her radio programme after the culmination of the current series, while RTÉ said it was developing ideas for a replacement show

Hugh Wallace interview: ‘As a nation we’ve been disrespectful of our architectural heritage and what we must have is a balanced approach to conservation’

Hugh Wallace of RTÉ’s Great House Revival series explains how more people are willing to revamp old and historic buildings, breathing new life into our built heritage and the hearts of our towns