Saturated with atmosphere: The Returned moved glacially but packed a lot of story into its opening episode TV review: Pleasantly surprised by a very unexpected return of the zombies

The French series The Returned is a proper ghost story instead of a zombiefest

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

Least inquisitive children on earth?: Keri Russell, Keidrich Sellati, Mathew Rhys and Holly Taylor in The Americans Television: Say hello to the family of friendly spies next door

Struggling through the sixth series of ‘Mad Men’? ‘The Americans’, with Emmy-worthy performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, could be just what you need

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 Newstalk indulged in boorish male banter

The programme for government contains a commitment to develop national standards for home support services but as yet nothing has been done.  Photograph: Michael Donne/Science Photo Library Home help sector will be next to be regulated, says Lynch

Minister of State says it is not possible to provide a timeline for regulation

The advertising of foods considered to be high in fat, salt and sugar during programmes aimed at children is to be prohibited under new Broadcasting Authority of Ireland guidelines. Cheese to get more airtime after authority U-turn

New BAI code bans promotion of certain products during children’s programming

“Many journalists have seen their world of journalism shrunk in a matter of years. Not just the job culls which have now reached tens of thousands, but stories, page count, sections, international, national and business news have been scaled down. Some describe it as death by small cuts. Many skillsets have almost vanished. Subs, or copy editors, have been reduced and full-time photographers have become an endangered species.” Time to press ahead and secure the future of journalism

Opinion: as journalists from 180 countries assemble in Dublin today, the mood is anxious but determined

Touch of melancholy: David and Sally Shaw-Smith, from In Good Hands Television: A three hanky job in John Hinde country

A programme about the decline of traditional craft, ‘In Good Hands’, was poignant, a comedy about suffragettes was funny, but the childcare exposé ‘Breach of Trust’ was plain shocking

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

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