Alan Hughes’s long-running pantomime uses raucous humour to winning effect

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The Newstalk presenter is in jocular mood about wild animals being wiped out

Newstalk presenter uses her medical background to telling effect, while Sean O’Rourke sticks to the grim facts

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Radio: The environment editor’s voice dips more than usual as he relays the imminent Armageddon

The Dragon not running for president brings a genial appeal to his Newstalk show

Dublin Theatre Festival: Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere bring a light touch to their weighty material

Presenter proves hell hath no fury like an economist scorned, as Volt fails to impress Moncrieff

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Transgressive electro artist brings bravura spirit to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical

The home of Nicky Byrne, Jenny Greene and Eoghan McDermott has some unlikely fans

Dublin Fringe Festival: Two-hander is marked by visual flair and dark comedy

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It can be easy to forget that Shane Coleman and Paul Williams have formidable news pedigrees

Dublin Fringe: Multimedia drama on traversing Dublin’s municipal space has absorbing elements but eventually wears thin

Dublin Fringe Festival: John Connors lends a charismatic presence to his polemical portrait of urban deprivation

Dublin Fringe Festival: Fionn Foley is irresistible as an anti-establishment politician

D’Arcy doles out the advice while admirably brisk Mary Wilson is baffled by midlife crises

O’Callaghan shows a different kind of class in her inteview with Jastine Valdez’s parents

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Radio: 4FM’s Niall Boylan invites Hopkins on to discuss race relations. It’s shock-jock overkill

Mick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around her

Presenter brings overlooked strengths to ‘Today’ show, while Liveline has unlikely glow

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Radio review: Joe Duffy listeners share stomach-churning stories of abusive passengers

Kenny describes attending a festival in the 1970s with “a dopehead” who had taken acid

Meanwhile, Muireann O’Connell is unembarrassed on Today FM

Stand-in host brings distinctive spin to adoption and referendum issues, but Gay Byrne remains the old master

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Joe Duffy, Ray D’Arcy and Mary Wilson highlight different aspects of the controversy

Radio review: Paul Williams and Shane Coleman blend news and jocular slagging

Radio review: Suprisingly, the RTÉ presenter is the ideal person to pay tribute to Big Tom McBride

Radio: The columnist find it strange he is ‘not allowed to say something good about men’

Radio: No papal bull as radio presenters give muted welcome to pontiff’s visit

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It’s an uneasy experience to hear a big online betting company given so much promotion

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Giving the irreverent duo this high-profile slot underlines a shift in direction at Today FM

‘Late Debate’ takes a new direction; Joe Duffy hears painful stories of callous bureaucracy

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Kenny decries the “hypocrisy” of Nigel Farage taking a European Parliament salary

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Radio: The presenter’s discussion on internet safety stokes deep parental fears

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Liveline host alarmed by crime experiences, while Kingsmill exercises Sean O’Rourke

Controversial broadcaster’s underwhelming Newstalk comeback takes aim at familiar targets

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Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves

His reticence is revealing in O’Callaghan’s most entertaining interview in a long time

They are ‘caught in a time warp between the Tricolour and Union Jack’, says the Newstalk host

The actor also alleged production was halted on ‘The Usual Suspects’ over Kevin Spacey’s behaviour

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Vincent grumbles to Ray, while Muireann O’Connell is the new safe pair of hands in Al Porter's former Today FM slot

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The GP turned broadcaster makes George Hook’s Newstalk slot her own

Storm Ophelia brings out the best from radio’s presenters, as each show gives us their own take on Monday’s hurricane

Donohoe gives off the smug air that has marked many a ministerial radio appearance since Leo Varadkar became Taoiseach

Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye

Radio review: The Las Vegas reports are radio that you wish you didn’t have to hear, but that’s hard to forget

Ciara Kelly is an assured on-air presence, a GP whose radio career is blossoming

A sprawling devised drama from Dublin Youth Theatre uses a large cast and vivid vignettes to illustrate timeless themes

The gruff interrogator seems to enjoy the Ploughing Championships but it doesn’t really suit him

Two plays that are tricky and smart in very different ways

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Ray D’Arcy’s interview with former broadcaster shows what Irish radio is missing

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Drink driving coverage is illuminating and spirit-crushingly tedious

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Radio Review: The RTÉ host’s interview with Orla Brady turns cringeworthy

George Hook, decrying the erosion of civility, fails to practise what he preaches

Radio Review: Pointless conversations are not the wished-for antidote to horrific news

In a gnarled voice, the ever-defiant songwriter explains his music and lyrics

2FM's morning show is a joyless exercise, but the station has more appealing presenters waiting in the wings

Ellen Frey McCourt on the musical version of her late husband’s harrowing childhood memoir

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