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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 empathy

Prime suspense: Gillian Anderson as DCI Gibson and Simon Delaney as McElroy in The Fall TV Review: Gillian Anderson is fired up in ‘The Fall’, but Mr Whicher is getting suspiciously dull

The former 'X-Files' star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in Belfast

Presenter Graham Norton during the filming of the Graham Norton Show at The London Studios, south London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire Cork town to honour native son Graham Norton

Bandon Town Council approves proposal to name riverside walk after television star

Novelist Roddy Doyle blamed the Irish secondary school system for causing the groupthink which was the reason “the country was now “f****ed”. Photograph: Jacob Blickenstaff Future of newspapers dominates conference agenda

Media Future event features strong contribution from novelist Roddy Doyle

Clare Duignan, managing director of RTÉ Radio who has announced she is stepping down from the role in June. Clare Duignan to step down as head of RTÉ Radio in June

One of broadcaster’s longest serving executives steps down after four years in radio role

Cliffhanger: Derek Mooney proves an affable, easy-going enthusiast in Secrets of the Irish Landscape Derek Mooney makes a plant the star – just watch he doesn’t run over it in his car

Television

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

Radio

The television centre at RTÉ in Donnybrook: the broadcaster’s director general, Noel Curran, said recently he would be “happy to see the balance of commercial and public funding alter”. Photograph: Alan Betson Watchdog must address RTÉ’s commercial agenda
  • Media
  • Frank Cullen
  • May 7, 2013, 02:00

Opinion: Now is the time to introduce rigorous and transparent supervision of our public service broadcasters

Oliver Callan gets new drivetime slot for RTÉ sketch show with a harder edge

The gay comedian says he was surprised by the positive reaction to his ’coming out’

Peter Coonan, Robert Sheehan, Tom Vaughan Lawlor and Killian Scott, members of the cast of the RTÉ drama Love/Hate. “RTÉ continues to make stand-out programmes, from high-end Irish TV drama like Love/Hate to national and international news, big sporting occasions, specialised arts, Irish-language and music programming.” Undermining RTÉ would not serve public interest
  • Media
  • Noel Curran
  • May 3, 2013, 06:00

Opinion: RTÉ needs scale and resources to guarantee a strong indigenous voice

All together now: the Hayes family in Kildare If you think this is a crowded house, try throwing in a dozen servants

Television

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

Radio

Eamon Gilmore and Micheál Martin prepare for the first televised leaders’ debate of the 2011 general election, hosted by Vincent Browne on TV3. “Commercial broadcasters also deliver a public service.” Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins RTÉ distorts advertising market and stifles choice
  • Media
  • David McRedmond
  • May 2, 2013, 06:00

Opinion: A State-funded broadcaster potentially acting to reduce competition should send a shiver down the spine

Time to end obsolete funding model for public service broadcasting
  • Media
  • John Purcell
  • April 30, 2013, 06:00

Opinion: Independent sector deserves level playing pitch with RTÉ and TG4

A file image of broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan, who was presented with the inaugural Mary Cummins Award for Outstanding Achievement in Media. Photograph: The Irish Times Women encouraged to be more open about their ambition

Inaugural Women in Media event hears told of special place in hell for `women who do not believe feminism matters today'

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

Radio

Hair today: Emily Watson, David Tennant and Ed Stoppard in The Politician’s Husband TV Review: David Tennant survives one drama only to follow it with a bad hair day

Television

She’s been framed: how Google is promoting its glasses Google Glass is on the way in, and the last of your privacy is on the way out

Kelly Gough as Eileen in Bás Arto Leary. Its writer Manchán Magan says: ‘All I wanted to do was make people aware of a poem . . . It’s now more about cocaine snorting and sex in dark lavatories’ Breaking bad habits in the mercenary game of television
  • Media
  • Manchán Magan
  • April 19, 2013, 07:00

I’ve never owned a TV, so naturally I decided to make a television drama. Little did I realise it would lead to addiction problems and violence – and that’s before the show is even made

Going green: James Nesbitt in James Nesbitt’s Ireland Forty shades of blarney and countless stitches add up to a waste of time

James Nesbitt’s Ireland is shameless codology. The Great British Sewing Bee is just dull

In tune with his listeners: Colm Hayes tapped into the national mood Colm Hayes boldly goes where Ryan Tubridy is too meek to explore

The 2FM jocks played their listeners against each other, with wildly different results

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