Radio: Would you look at that bull. What a beautiful pelvis

Review: While Sean O’Rourke, on RTÉ, and Pat Kenny, on Newstalk, get stuck in at the National Ploughing Championships, ‘Breakfast Republic’, on 2FM, tries a different furrow

Radio: John Murray’s contrite guest shows that sorry is still the hardest word

Review: A banker’s remorse makes for rare radio when John Rusnak appears on the RTÉ presenter’s show. On Newstalk, George Hook makes no apologies for his opinions

Today FM messers Dermot and Dave? Must try harder

Blokey gags fail to mask deeper failings. For a lesson in radio control, tune in to Pat Kenny

Radio: ‘Liveline’ chronicles the inferno between Dublin’s canals

Joe Duffy’s show on RTÉ Radio 1 turns the capital’s descent into the abyss. Over on 2FM, Ryan Tubridy has an unexpectedly global outlook

In defence of Tubridy, host of the 26th-ranked radio show

RTÉ’s highest-paid presenter should be freed from 2fm duties and returned to Radio 1

Radio: Nicky Byrne and Jenny Greene – talking loudly in a show about nothing

Nicky Byrne and Jenny Greene are cheery hosts but stunningly banal. It’s a chirpy John Murray who provides more substance

Private radio sector seeking public funds

Independent Broadcasters of Ireland group renews criticism of RTÉ 2fm

Radio: Donoghue is no sidekick in this ‘Breakfast’ double act

Ivan Yates is the big name on Newstalk’s morning show, but his quietly relentless co-presenter steals his thunder

Radio: Tubridy and D’Arcy are both dab hands at the crying game

Lacking celebrity guests, the RTÉ host goes for the emotions, but his Today FM rival produces stars as well as tears

Radio: Good grief, Moncrieff – surely you aren’t waffling?

The Newstalk presenter marries the trivial and the serious to bracing effect, but Miriam O’Callaghan’s witty remarks fall flat

Radio: One foot in the grave, the other foot in their mouths

Undertakers could teach Pat Kenny and Ray D’Arcy a thing or two about tact and discretion

Radio: Flying without wings – will Nicky Byrne help 2FM take off?

The Westlife singer is a chirpy on-air presence, but his weekday radio show is as bland as his former boy band’s hits

2fm ‘Breakfast Republic’ gets Berocca boost

Multivitamin brand’s ‘Performance’ product will sponsor new show targeting young urban audience

Radio: Friends in low places, but how many friends in gay places?

RTÉ celebrates country music with abandon but approaches the homophobia controversy with caution

Dublin radio stations split on gender

Contrasting fortunes for male-skewed stations Nova and Phantom

Radio: ‘Cover their little ears’: Mooney grows up with adult content

The RTÉ presenter’s usual quirky cosiness gave way to sympathetic space for an outsider’s tale, while a garda whistleblower yielded a timely documentary

Radio: Rahoo, rahoo, rahoo – Hector bows out of breakfast radio

The ‘commander of the dawn’ Hector Ó hEochagáin signed off in bolshie fashion

Radio: The claws are out for a week of bitchy chat and baby talk

It was weird hearing Ryan Tubridy using the B-word in a discussion about women, but at least he showed a little bite. Elsewhere on RTÉ, ‘Pregnant on My Lunchbreak’ was an enlightening documentary about artificial insemination

Radio review: Golden oldie Hayes not really down with the kids

The uneven tone of Colm Hayes’s show on 2FM echoes his station’s dilemma

Radio review: George Hook turns off-colour at JFK’s graveside

The Newstalk broadcaster had too much of an eye on the bottom line at a ceremony to remember the US president

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