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Newstalk’s Andrea Gilligan: ‘Her devotion to free speech is to be applauded, though in this instance a wider range of voices wouldn’t hurt.’ Photograph: Newstalk Newstalk’s guests all agree (irony alert) that cancel culture has killed free speech
  • Mick Heaney
  • January 14, 2022, 05:00

Review: Andrea Gilligan’s discussion of free speech includes no dissenting voices

Baz Ashmawy, filling in for Ryan Tubridy, ‘is undeniably diverting, in the manner of a manic student teacher filling in for a sensible history master’. Photograph: RTÉ Baz Ashmawy, the manic student teacher covering for sensible history master Ryan Tubridy
  • Mick Heaney
  • January 7, 2022, 05:00

The stand-in presenter wings it with breathless enthusiasm and cheeky charm

RTÉ Radio 1 remained the biggest player in the national market, bolstered by marquee names and brand recognition. Photograph: Conor McCabe. Claire Byrne is radio’s prefect, Cormac Ó hEadhra and Sarah McInerney its maverick cops
  • Mick Heaney
  • December 19, 2021, 05:00

Radio in 2021: Radio 1’s new guard found their voice, Newstalk stayed scrappy

Ryan Tubridy expended much energy parsing conversational mores that annoy him. Photograph: RTÉ ‘Everyone’s nerves are a little bit frayed.’ Ryan Tubridy pleads for patience
  • Mick Heaney
  • December 17, 2021, 05:00

Radio: He can sound corny, but his dislike of bad manners has a genuine ring

Lunchtime Live’s guest host Clare McKenna confesses to doubts about getting her children vaccinated, while fretting about raising the subject ‘With great hesitation, I’m going to talk of vaccine hesitancy’
  • Mick Heaney
  • December 10, 2021, 05:00

Radio: In a high-wire act, Newstalk’s Clare McKenna airs fears over child vaccination

The subjects exercising Joe Duffy’s guests seem so trivial that one almost forgets we’re in the middle of an epoch-defining global pandemic ‘I just wish people would stop moaning and giving out.’ But what would Liveline do then?
  • Mick Heaney
  • December 3, 2021, 05:00

Review: Joe Duffy presides over tetchy debates on bungalows and masks in schools

From the off, Ciara Kelly pushes Tony Holohan on his long-standing resistance to antigen tests. Photograph: Newstalk Tony Holohan’s best is not quite good enough for Ciara Kelly
  • Mick Heaney
  • November 26, 2021, 05:00

Radio: The Newstalk host presses the chief medical officer on his pandemic response

Presenter Cormac Ó hEadhra hears one hostile verdict after another on mother and baby homes redress scheme. Photograph: RTÉ ‘Sobering’ Covid restrictions and a ‘dog’s dinner’ redress scheme. Only Ray D’Arcy had a good week
  • Mick Heaney
  • November 19, 2021, 05:00

Radio: Disappointment at the mother and baby home redress scheme is unmistakable

Claire Byrne took a granular approach to the issue of retrofitting homes for energy efficiency, and in the process got to the heart of the matter. Photograph: RTÉ Claire Byrne challenges Ireland’s climate strategy: ‘People are being asked to pony up a lot’
  • Mick Heaney
  • November 12, 2021, 05:00

Radio: The RTÉ host deftly turns a consumer item into a querying of government policy

Newstalk’s Pat Kenny: Any aliens out there? The line is open. Photograph: Frank Miller The Michael Healy-Rae climate plan: ‘Save the planet but not at the expense of the farmer’
  • Mick Heaney
  • November 5, 2021, 05:00

Radio: Pat Kenny tries to sum up the Kerry TD’s view of the climate crisis in Ireland

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Edel Coffey’s Breaking Point is written in an economical, stripped-back style and it has the pace, setting and glamour of a Hollywood thriller Breaking Point by Edel Coffey: A future bestseller that conveys grief beautifully
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Visitors view the official portrait of former president Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 18th, 2021. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images The Black President: A balance sheet of things Obama did right and could have done better

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1 ‘I think I’ve been living out of a suitcase since I was about 18,’ says Irish actor Caitriona Balfe Catriona Balfe: ‘Monaghan in the ’80s, a guard’s daughter … you’re not particularly welcomed’

2 The 'last lap' can be the most relaxed, worthwhile and contented period of our lives, especially if we prepare for it. Photograph: iStock Irish study finds eight novel ways to live longer (it’s not all diet and genes)

3 Kevin O’Higgins, Michael Collins (marked with an ‘x’) and Éamonn Duggan leaving Dublin Castle after the British ‘handover’, on January 16th, 1922. Photograph: Joseph Cashman/National Library of Ireland Handover of British rule: ‘After 700 years here, what difference does 7 minutes make?’

4 Emily in Paris is unaccountably watchable despite being entirely frictionless and devoid of stakes Emily in Paris? The French call it Leave Me Alone, You Illiterate Sociopath

5 The World According to Jeff Goldblum, streaming from Friday on Disney+ TV guide: 19 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight

6 Erica-Cody and pro dancer Denys Samson perform on Dancing With The Stars. Photograph: RTÉ Dancing With the Stars week 2: Erica-Cody and Jordan Conroy wow the judges

7 Kevin O’Higgins, Michael Collins (marked with an ‘x’) and Éamonn Duggan leaving Dublin Castle after the British ‘handover’, on January 16th 1922. Photograph: Joseph Cashman, NL1 Civil War Prints, NPA CIVP4; courtesy of the National Library of Ireland ‘Epochal’ – how The Irish Times reported the handover of Dublin Castle, 100 years ago today

8 Last season’s Strictly created history with the first official same-sex pairing. But RTÉ says it won’t be following suite on Dancing With The Stars. Photograph: Barry McCall Dancing With The Stars 2022: Everything you need to know

9 Elvis Costello: “What you get is this face and this voice that has changed and that I have used in different ways. Forty-five years of myself, Pete and Steve playing together is going to give you some trust.” Photograph: Mark Seliger Elvis Costello: ‘What you get is this face and this voice that has changed’

10 The murder of Shane O’Neill: In the mid-1500s, Sean or Shane O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, was causing so many problems for the English crown that Elizabeth I banned the name O’Neill, on punishment of death and forfeiture of property. She would not be pleased to know that today O’Neill is a top ten Irish surname, and Sean is a top ten Irish given name. Photograph: Getty Images A dozen things you might not know about Irish names

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