Pure filth! Ireland’s banned films – and why the censor didn’t want you to see them – The Irish Times
A generation of Irish cinemagoers has grown up with no memory of the bad old days when theocratic…
At 65 years old, isn’t it time for RTÉ to retire The Late Late Show? – The Irish Times
The clock is ticking loudly for RTÉ to sort out who will host The Late Late Show this…
Former RTÉ broadcaster Brendan Balfe: ‘I haven’t listened to Radio 1 for a long time’ – The Irish Times
It has been a month since former RTÉ broadcaster Brendan Balfe’s wife Eileen died. Her Mass card is…
Marty Whelan: ‘I’d like to be paid more, particularly when I see what other people are on’ – The Irish Times
“You’ve caught me reading the Daily Mail!” says Marty Whelan as I come into the radio studio. He…
Retro riding: A history of sex on Irish TV, from The Late Late Show to Rivals – The Irish Times
The excellent Rivals, an adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster, in which 1980s rich people enthusiastically bonk (English for…
‘So kind and charming. He joked about my lovely accent’ – The Irish Times
David Attenborough was hailed as a “global treasure” by Mary Robinson this week, as the natural history presenter…
‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’ – The Irish Times
If you read Emma Donoghue’s latest novel, The Paris Express, from 2025, which was inspired by the Montparnasse…
The best and worst Irish TV shows ever made – The Irish Times
Ireland excels at a lot of things. Literature. Preachy rock stars. Potato-based snacks. But in television we have…
Pat Kenny signs off after more than four decades of daily radio – The Irish Times
Towards the end of the final weekday radio broadcast of Pat Kenny’s long career, something extraordinary happens when…
Brendan Balfe on a century of Irish broadcasting – The Irish Times
It was 1975, and I was presenting Pop Call. It was broadcast live on RTÉ radio at 11pm…