RTÉ scraps set of Toy Show the Musical Stage show set had been in storage at stated cost of €8,000 a year but disposal and recycling now ‘underway’Sat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Marriages registered by people aged 60 and over ‘more than double over past decade’Number of people in State aged 65-plus has risen 40%, it saidFri Jan 26 2024 - 15:49
Toy Show the Musical: Damning report lays bare culture of dysfunction among RTÉ managementAnalysis: Report reveals how RTÉ presented the stage show flop as a ‘fait accompli’ to its own boardThu Jan 25 2024 - 17:52
RTÉ seeks sponsor for Oliver Callan’s ‘sharp hour of entertainment’ on Radio 1Broadcaster says new presenter of station’s 9am weekday slot will offer ‘wickedly fresh take on hot button topics’Thu Jan 25 2024 - 06:00
Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy’s next film leads Screen Ireland’s 2024 production slate‘Wonderful time for Irish filmmaking,’ says Murphy as agency reports production spending of €322m in 2023Wed Jan 24 2024 - 06:05
Oscars 2024: How Dublin’s Element Pictures has set new records for Irish filmAnalysis: Relationships with director Yorgos Lanthimos and Disney-owned backer Searchlight Pictures have been key to Irish production company’s successTue Jan 23 2024 - 18:17
Oscars 2024: best actor frontrunner Cillian Murphy secures first nominationPoor Things puts in a strong showing with 11 nods as Oppenheimer leads race with 13, but there’s no luck for other Irish acting talentTue Jan 23 2024 - 15:55
‘Whole new world’ for Radio 1 but can Oliver Callan help RTÉ reach whole new audience?‘Establishment radio station’ enjoys solid market share of 20%, but still needs an influx of younger listenersTue Jan 23 2024 - 06:15
Why Decathlon’s arrival on O’Connell Street is about much more than just one shopNews that the sporting goods retailer is coming to Clerys Quarter is the morsel of positivity O’Connell Street needsSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:30
Point of snow return nears for Republicans as Donald Trump’s re-election campaign gets off to a flyerPlanet Business: Uniqlo sues Shein over ‘imitation’ bags, Premier League financial rules threaten chaos and Fujitsu’s boss gets a Davos doorstepSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:15
BoyleSports extends sponsorship deal with Horse Racing Ireland RacecoursesBoyleSports' three-year agreement with HRI Racecourses broadens partnership from Irish Grand National to races at Leopardstown, Tipperary and NavanThu Jan 18 2024 - 06:00
News industry group calls for ‘serious harm’ test to be applied in all defamation casesOireachtas media committee hears of ‘chilling effect’ on journalism posed by legal threatsWed Jan 17 2024 - 18:59
Make TV licence fee reform ‘priority’, Screen Producers Ireland urges GovernmentDecision on public media funding must be agreed ‘without delay’, says chief executive Susan KirbyWed Jan 17 2024 - 17:03
TV and film producers worldwide unite to call for ‘financial contribution’ from streamersGovernments urged to take action to protect local content and the intellectual property of independent production companiesWed Jan 17 2024 - 13:00
Irish version of hit reality TV series The Traitors in developmentKite Entertainment has optioned the Dutch format and is in talks with RTÉ about making the show in IrelandWed Jan 17 2024 - 06:15
Where’s that television? Welcome to the era of transparent TVsMagic boxes: See-through models by LG and Samsung could change the status of television in our homes — againTue Jan 16 2024 - 06:00
Susan McKay: ‘There’s a lot of loose anger in this country at the moment’Amid financial strains and a tenser media climate, Ireland’s third press ombudsman is on a mission to make as many people as possible know her office existsSun Jan 14 2024 - 06:00
One small step for man, one giant leap too far for Peregrine Mission OnePlanet Business: end of Tiger Woods’s partnership with Nike, Consumer Electronics Show highlights, and the physics teacher who found Boeing’s blown-out door plug in his back gardenSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:15
Last One Laughing Ireland: Behind the scenes with Graham Norton and Aisling Bea on the new Irish comedy showHow do you stop yourself from laughing, or even smiling, and what does it do to your psyche if you do? A new Prime Video series sees 10 Irish comics strive to keep a straight faceSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Late Late Toy Show tops most-watched TV list in year dominated by rugbyRTÉ coverage of Dublin riot secures biggest news viewership of 2023, with 9pm bulletin on November 23rd the 11th most-watched programmeThu Jan 11 2024 - 10:57
The Traitors is arbitrary and brutal, like January – give me more of itThe cliffhanger-loving BBC reality show is an addictive new year distraction that makes its viewers waitTue Jan 09 2024 - 06:00
Corporate insolvencies will occur at rate of almost three per day this year, forecasts PwCWave of 229 insolvencies in fourth quarter brought total for 2023 to a ‘higher than expected’ total of 717Mon Jan 08 2024 - 06:00
Newstalk owner Bauer lobbies Catherine Martin about keeping licensed radio stations ‘easy to find’ in carsMove comes amid concerns car manufacturers are ditching radio receivers, while rise of smart speakers has given tech companies greater power over audio industryMon Jan 08 2024 - 05:45
Asking prices for homes rise 4.1% in 2023, says MyHome.ieSupply shortages continue to affect the market, according to the property websiteMon Jan 08 2024 - 05:30
Bright lights, big equities, as Wall Street eyes 2024 sequel for the Magnificent SevenPlanet Business: Steamboat Willie, the first female centibillionaire and this year’s tipped holiday destinationsSat Jan 06 2024 - 06:15
European shares recoup losses but JD Sports shares plunge after profit warningRyanair arrests its slide with airline gaining 0.4% on Dublin listingThu Jan 04 2024 - 18:16
Corporate insolvencies reach highest level in five years after 25% rise in 2023Total of 663 insolvencies last year, with numbers in hospitality and construction jumping 62%, according to Deloitte IrelandThu Jan 04 2024 - 06:00
Planet Business: ‘Yes, the salary is enormous’ and other quotes of the yearApologies, denials, deadly cocktails and some good old-fashioned warnings of imminent doom: 2023 had many lines to rememberSun Dec 31 2023 - 06:20
Planet Business: A $1 billion mega-tour and other numbers of the yearFrom flight cancellation misery and forfeited pay to corporation tax hauls and obesity drug bonanzas, everything in 2023 had either a value or a costSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:15
Fridays bring unique ‘surge’ in broadband activity from about 2pm, says Vodafone IrelandIncreased demand for streaming sees rise in mobile and broadband usage in 2023, though number of voice calls fallsThu Dec 28 2023 - 05:45
Irish advertising market will grow 3.2% in 2024 but print and TV revenue will fall, says GroupMDigital, radio, out-of-home and cinema advertising all forecast to increase next yearWed Dec 27 2023 - 21:00
European shares edge higher as trading resumes after Christmas breakWall Street’s main indexes struggle for direction in the absence of any major catalystWed Dec 27 2023 - 17:48
Meltdown at Montrose: RTÉ's year from hell as drama of Tubsgate became existential crisisFrom bombshell statements to tense committee hearings to a string of budget cuts, it has been an incendiary 2023 for the public service broadcasterWed Dec 27 2023 - 06:30
Planet Business: Copycat layoffs, hallucinations and other words of the yearFrom ‘bare minimum Monday’ to ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’, some additions to the lexicon of 2023 sounded less painful than othersWed Dec 27 2023 - 06:10
Feline frontier: in space no one can hear you miaowPlanet Business: Nasa experiments, seasonal indigestion, Masimo’s Joe Kiani and CEOs who left their jobs in 2023Sat Dec 23 2023 - 06:15
European stocks rise led by gains in London marketFTSE 100 index jumps 1 per cent after UK inflation plunges to lowest rate in more than two yearsWed Dec 20 2023 - 18:37
Department of Public Expenditure narrows gender pay gap to 2.6%Government department ‘provides all employees with equal opportunities’, it saysWed Dec 20 2023 - 17:15
RTÉ to launch voluntary redundancy scheme and publish register of interests early next year - BakhurstList of 2022 earnings for the 10 highest-paid presenters and reports on Toy Show the Musical and previous exit schemes will also be made publicTue Dec 19 2023 - 18:04
Death, tax credits and great lines underpin quietly stellar year for Irish TV dramaObituary, Northern Lights, The Dry and Blue Lights brought a critical mass of quality to our screens in 2023, but future is far from certainTue Dec 19 2023 - 06:05
Big Poinsettia blooms again as houseplant exerts annual hold over festive foliagePlanet Business: Hasbro’s nightmare holiday season, the ascent of Viking Toast and Christmas TV fareSat Dec 16 2023 - 06:15
European shares inch up as Federal Reserve sets tone on interest rate expectationsUS stocks subdued in choppy afternoon tradingFri Dec 15 2023 - 17:58
Bank of Ireland UK reprimanded for credit profile mistakes affecting 3,000 customersUK Information Commissioner’s Office said errors had ‘potentially caused misery for thousands of people’Fri Dec 15 2023 - 13:04
House prices across State rise by 2.3% but Dublin down againCentral Statistics Office index records 0.6% decrease in residential property prices in Dublin, while prices outside Dublin are up by 4.5% in the year to OctoberWed Dec 13 2023 - 11:13
Laura Slattery: The Crown is a perfect show for this age of ‘second screen’ televisionStreamers are adjusting to a universe in which the smartphone is the ‘first screen’ and the TV has become ‘ambient’ visual muzakTue Dec 12 2023 - 06:00
Miami vice, 2025-style, as Grand Theft Auto VI hype begins ahead of schedulePlanet Business: Australia ends next-day letter delivery, Tesla whistleblower talks ‘phantom braking’ and the European Central Bank eyes rivers and birds for banknote redesignSat Dec 09 2023 - 07:30
Planning appeal payments could have ‘serious’ tax consequences, Revenue warnsWhistleblowers invited to come forward to share information on payments made to influence the planning processFri Dec 08 2023 - 21:05
Number of people on live register drops again in NovemberFall of 1,400 on the seasonally adjusted register last month comes despite rise in unemployment rateFri Dec 08 2023 - 12:49
A ‘Booker bounce’, more BookTok joy, and a schoolbooks crisis for Irish booksellers in hectic yearAfter a royal start to 2023, retailers are now poised for the Christmas gift-buying rush. If only everything that happened in between had gone so wellFri Dec 08 2023 - 06:05
European share values pause after recent spell of strong gainsBank of Ireland and AIB dragged lower amid weak session for European banking stocksThu Dec 07 2023 - 19:12
Voice call minutes in Irish telecoms market decline 25% in a yearThere are now almost 620,000 fibre-to-the-premises broadband subscriber lines, says telecoms watchdog ComRegThu Dec 07 2023 - 18:38
