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Mick Heaney

Mick Heaney

Radio Columnist

Mick Heaney is radio columnist for The Irish Times and a regular contributor to the paper’s Arts pages. As a journalist and broadcaster, he has extensively covered all aspects of cultural issues over the past 20 years for a variety of publications and programmes, including RTÉ 1’s arts magazine The Works.

Let’s talk softly about sex: Tom Dunne. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Radio review: The sordid business of talking about the online sex industry

Despite good intentions, Tom Dunne’s investigation into sex workers and their clients came close to airbrushing reality

Me, myself and I: Miriam O’Callaghan was a rare female voice in RTÉ radio’s mostly male line-up
Radio: A taste of women’s suffrage, then it’s back to the locker room

Miram O’Callaghan interviewed the great-granddaughter of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst on RTÉ while the sports stars on Newst(...)

Emotional: one caller said her daughter had been strapped into a high chair by a creche worker as a punishment for eating another child’s food. Photograph: Emielke van Wyk/Gallo/Getty
Radio: Joe Duffy keeps his cool amid the shouting and the scaremongering

The Liveline host presided over the fraught issue of childcare and abuse after Prime Time’s A Breach of Trust

Disclosure: Alan Shatter at a press conference this week. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times
Radio: Digging up the dirty bits in Alan Shatter and Mick Wallace’s war of words

This week saw rotten tomatoes for Eurovision, ripe prose from the Minister for Justice and a bad Apple deal for Ireland

Donal Walsh: died after a long battle with cancer. Photograph: Kerry’s Eye/PA
Radio Review: a week of sadness after Donal Walsh’s death, but one of uplifting insight too

Death and illness dominated the on-air discussions this week, but the presenters managed to deal with the subjects adroitly and em(...)

Give it a lash: marketing Irish culture becomes tricky only when it becomes a pastiche. Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images
From tat to taste: selling Irish culture

Visiting Ireland used to mean kissing the Blarney stone. A new focus could help to attract well-heeled tourists

Winning team: Johnny Logan and Shay Healy
What’s another year? It’s a bitter-sweet question for Shay Healy

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Hot topic: Taoiseach Enda Kenny with fellow Ministers this week to launch the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Joe Duffy cools hotheads while Ray D’Arcy applies refreshing pressure

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Stage school: mezzo Naomi O'Connell singing in New York. Photograph: Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images
Radio review: Irish mezzo Naomi O’Connell’s quick trip to a hall of fame

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