Today FM presenter Eamon Dunphy is to front a publicity campaign urging the Government to make subtitling compulsory on at least half the programmes broadcast on Irish television.
The campaign is organised by the National Association for Deaf People, which wants the change to be put in an amendment to the Broadcasting Bill, which is before the Seanad.
It will use posters showing Mr Dunphy with his mouth taped over and the slogan: "Television to a deaf person is like this. So why am I not subtitled?" The chief executive of the association, Mr Niall Keane, said the proposed law would bring Ireland into line with practice in Britain, where half of the programming has subtitling.