Seven TV shows to watch this week

Behind the scenes at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wedding, a tribute to Elton John and bringing our boglands back from the brink

Radio: The night is not Derek Mooney’s natural habitat

Review: ‘Mooney Goes Wild’, ‘Drama on One: Deep’, ‘The Right Hook’ and ‘The Tom Dunne Show’

BAI says campaigning broadcasters should not be on air

Body advises that presenters who actively campaign should be absent before referenda

Ray D’Arcy to fill RTÉ One Saturday night slot from autumn

Brendan O’Connor to host new series on channel after five years fronting chat show

Senator claims broadcasters pushing gay marriage ‘agenda’

Ronán Mullen says same-sex vote could be defeated

Radio: Ray D’Arcy’s old habits are a ray of sunshine on play-it-safe RTÉ

Review: Radio 1’s new presenter voices his opinions to bracing effect. The rebooted ‘Media Show’ could learn from such candour

Ray D’Arcy’s salary covered by sponsorship, RTÉ chair says

Oireachtas committee hears how Volkswagen will help cover cost of new programme

Ray D’Arcy’s RTÉ Radio 1 show signs Volkswagen as sponsor

Presenter says he is ‘hugely encouraged’ by six-figure, 18-month deal ahead of February debut

Radio: Tortoise Tubridy takes victory. Can Ray D’Arcy follow suit?

Review: A good year for Ryan Tubridy, Pat Kenny and Sean O’Rourke. But where are all the women presenters?

What’s on this weekend?

From a disco on ice to a trance dance in Trim, here’s a round-up of nationwide events

Radio: Chipper Alison Curtis emerges from Ray D’Arcy’s shadow

Review: Canadian finds her voice in RTÉ defector’s old slot, while Pat Kenny loses his cool in a fractious confrontation

Ray D’Arcy is back at RTÉ: will it be for a rest or a wrestle?

Afternoon radio sometimes feels like a sleepy backwater, but D’Arcy’s big move might well shake up that perception

Ray D’Arcy: Coming to an RTÉ screen near you

Move to ‘come home’ to the public broadcaster is more about television than Radio 1 slot

Broadcasting watchdog urged to clarify position on marriage equality

NUJ chief Séamus Dooley says letter sent in August by broadcasting authority ‘unhelpful’

Radio: A genteel sort of pub fight as Charlie Chawke and Ryan Tubridy discuss an Irish welcome

Review: The publican’s staff preferences rile the 2FM presenter, as Pat Kenny has a telling chat with Fine Gael’s humbled Seanad candidate

BAI decision on Mooney Show ‘inimical’ to public interest

NUJ concerned complaint about lack of same sex marriage opposition on RTÉ show upheld

Complaint of bias on same-sex marriage upheld against RTÉ

Broadcasting watchdog says Derek Mooney should have offered alternative viewpoint

Radio: Presenters playing the World Cup for laughs are scoring an own goal

It’s bad enough that the soccer agnostics complain incessantly about the soccer tournament, but do we need so many wacky items on air?

Another Life: What can you do about the march of the millipedes?

Eye on Nature gets several pleas for advice each year, some from bungalow-dwellers whose pebble-dashed gables are blackened at night by slowly undulating hordes of ‘Tachypodoiulus niger’

Honduras - Team Profile

Quite a debut in ‘82, when they drew 1-1 with hosts Spain, before picking up another point against Northern Ireland

Radio: Hazy ‘Liveline’ logic about why Labour isn’t working

RTÉ Radio 1’s phone-in, hosted by an election-fatigued Philip Boucher-Hayes, is high on opinion but low on coherence. For a quietly devastating talk, tune in to John Murray’s talk with Derry Clarke of l’Ecrivain Restaurant

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