The Limerick Leader ran a online poll on Monday on the matter of Donal Murray, the Bishop of Limerick who is under pressure to resign in light of the findings of the Murphy Report. However there was a lot of voting on the poll and the results changed wildly. So the Editor of the Limerick [...]
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The online news evangelist and tweeter extraordinare (@marklittlenews) is heading for the superhighway on a years leave of absence. Best of luck to him! RTÉ Prime Time presenter, Mark Little, has announced that he is taking a year’s leave of absence from RTÉ in the New Year to pursue a project combining digital media and [...]
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People following me on twitter or reading the liveblogs are probably sick to the teeth of my ranting through the last few weeks about Vincent Browne’s problem with women. For a broadcaster so obsessed with equality this season’s show on TV3 has been marked by a lack of female guest on the first part of [...]
On the day when private clubs in Ireland won the right to discriminate not only against women but against anyone based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, parental status, family status and membership of the Travelling Community I hear RTE are launching a new radio programme. Girl Talk starts broadcasting next Saturday. The Apprentice’ star Jennifer [...]
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The soon to be monikered ‘Woodward and Bernstein’ of the Irish Blogosphere, Gavin Sheridan (Of Tribunal and other corruption blasting central blog, Gavinsblog) and whippersnapper Mark Coughlan (lately of Irishelection.com) last week launched TheStory.ie … dedicated to sharing documents, combing and combining data and promoting transparency in public life: An experiment in journalism and crowdsourcing [...]
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Emerging from Montrose is the title of the new Current Affairs show to be hosted by Pat Kenny on Monday Nights. The Frontline will be broadcast in the same timeslot as it’s predecessor but word is that it will be more news driven and flexible rather than panel or audience driven. No news on the [...]
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Ah it is the silly season and RTE1 decided tonight to repeat a special on the Young Irish and Wealthy originally shown last Christmas. What a difference 8 months makes. Several of the projects and inflated bank accounts of the people profiled are no longer with us. Moviestar.ie is a mere Web Awards sponsor memory [...]
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Sniffle… Peninsula Ireland have appeared on Maman Poulet’s hall of shame before. Invariably they are described in the media as an employment law firm, one with a penchant for tabloidesque press releases, they never fail to get their guff covered in some paper or other. ‘Peninsula offers a full range of services covering health and [...]
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A complaint is not a complaint if the complainer is shown not to be disadvantaged by it? Even if the issue is proven as being valid? That’s what RTE have said in reply to a complaint to the Broadcasting Complaints Commissionmade by Councillor Kevin Humphreys about Gabriel Byrne’s promotion of Mannix Flynn’s candidacy for Dublin [...]
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It’s the final Questions and Answers programme tonight. The funeral is a specially extended edition at 10.30pm on RTE1 with 20 mourners as guests. (Kathy Sheridan, one of the better panellists over the years interviewed John Bowman in Saturday’s Irish Times). Unfortunately there are very few Q&A clips on Youtube – so jogging your moment [...]
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