Today FM broadcaster Paula MacSweeney on juggling parenting three young children with a her busy radio career, eloping to New York with her partner and why she loved the Covid lockdowns There has been news of shake-ups on Irish airwaves in recent weeks - Claire Byrne announced she was leaving RTÉ Radio One to join Newstalk, while Pat Kenny moves to the weekend.
A few months after Gerry Ryan died in 2010, fellow radio star Ian Dempsey saw his widow, Morah. It was across a crowded room at a function in The Mansion House in Dublin. "I hadn't seen her for ages," Dempsey says. "I waved over at her like a mad thing. Unfortunately, it was in the middle of a charity auction and I found myself bidding on a weekend in New York..."