Boss of national broadcaster says the pay cap will stay despite Claire Byrne's departure He does not believe the 'paperwork is that onerous' for staff following RTÉ's rules on external activities He says he disagrees with Claire Byrne's comments that there is a 'nervousness in RTÉ, editorially' He also says water has passed under the bridge with Ryan Tubridy and does not rule out his return
I did see him, I was reversing into a parking spot and talking to someone from the Late Late Show, handsfree, and I then did a swear word and said: 'I've almost killed David McCullagh'.
Eurovision boycott shows the depths of anti-Israel feeling in Ireland, but few would argue against the Jewish state has the right to exist two events this week illustrate how deeply, institutionally anti-Israeli Ireland has become. The first was the rejection on a technicality of Dublin city councillors' attempt to rename Herzog Park in Rathgar. The second was RTÉ's decision not to take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
London correspondent will move to co-host nightly news programme as part of broadcaster's ongoing shake-up At 31, Tommy Meskill will become the youngest ever newsreader to take the helm of RTÉ's Six One News as part of an ongoing presenter shake-up at the national broadcaster. Sarah McInerney and Justin McCarthy will join Morning Ireland, while political correspondent Paul Cunningham will present Radio 1's This Week. Meskill will present Six One alongside Sharon Tobin.
RTÉ bosses maintain relative silence, saying 'no comment' to questions about alleged meeting The reverberations from his departure are still being felt in RTÉ. The new schedule kicking off this morning on RTÉ Radio 1 is influenced by the fallout from the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal. In the new belt-tightened era in Montrose, stars have departed and presenters haven't had their ­contracts renewed as RTÉ hierarchy make it clear the "talent" are merely hosting the shows - not running the show.
I was working for a company building apartment blocks during the World Cup. We got into work one morning and we turned straight back around and went into an early house to watch the semi-finals. Our problem wasn't that - our problem was we got greedy. You've a few drinks and your confidence gets up. It gets to 5 o'clock and we thought we should ring Enrique to clock us out of work again. And one of the lads says, let's wait and we'll get someone to clock us out in a few hours and we'll get overtime.
"I'm here in the RTÉ makeup department, and I'm conducting an experiment," Bonner said in a video shared on 2FM's Instagram. "You could call it 'the Miriam experiment', inspired by Miriam O'Callaghan, who said this week on a podcast that on a Tuesday, she gets her makeup done here in RTÉ and she keeps the same eye makeup for the following seven days. "This is science people, the eyes that are put on me today will be on me for seven days."
There were 1,853 employees at Montrose on December 31 last, according to the station's annual report for 2024, which has just been published. This was up from 1,836 at the end of 2023. The reclassification of seven contractors to employees accounted for some of the increase. RTÉ is still engaging with the Department of Social Protection about the status of contractors, and paid €0.9m in tax settlements last year as a result of this investigation. The total wages and salaries bill also rose last year, up from €130.2m in 2023 to €132.7m.
Monahan is unapologetic after poaching Newstalk's Kieran Cuddihy for 'Liveline' - and is up for a fight over accusations the move was retaliation for Claire Byrne's defection Patricia Monahan smiles broadly. "All's fair," she says, "in love and broadcasting." RTÉ's Head of Audio is up for the fight, and if that means a bit of argy-bargy with her former employer, Newstalk, so be it. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news
One of the things that disgusts me is a statement made by Kevin Bakhurst not too long ago when somebody said, there's no comedy on RTÉ at the moment. And he went, 'Oh, well, you know comedy, it's hit and miss'. And basically that was an admission of total defeat. And I'd never heard a head of a TV station saying that before that they actually gave up on making comedy.
'Faithless' (Virgin Media One) 4/5 In the end, it's not really the hope that kills you, it's the hype. That squeaking sound heard all over Ireland last week was the air escaping from the hype balloon after episode one of The Walsh Sisters aired on RTÉ One.
RTÉ's panicked announcement that David McCullagh would succeed Claire Byrne as presenter of the mid-morning radio programme was in stark contrast with the faffing about over who will replace Joe Duffy on Liveline.
Tubridy, Byrne, Duffy, Dobson and Collins exits see six hours of changes Three highest paid stars in Donnybrook now gone within the space of two years Newstalk pulls off its biggest transfer coup since Pat Kenny moved from Montrose
Marty Morrissey established Mutton Island Productions four years ago to manage his various gigs outside of RTÉ, which include presenting awards and store openings.
