Ian Dempsey

If Today FM was any more lifeless, you’d need to call 999

Dermot and Dave’s show is good-natured, aimless and generic, like Today FM itself

Radio ratings: Marian Finucane, Matt Cooper the main winners

RTÉ 2fm signals big changes as Today FM toasts breakfast and drivetime gains

Jenny Greene returns and Doireann Garrihy joins as 2fm pivots to talk

New phone-in show and evening bid to chase younger podcast listeners from June

Doireann Garrihy: 'I know people who have barely been outside Dublin'

Broadcaster’s new podcast, The Laughs of Your Life, has topped the charts since March

‘I wouldn’t be waving a flag for the Catholic Church but I believe in God’

Laura O’Mahony on faith, family and feminism, and why her style of comedy has international appeal

Ivan Yates and Ian Dempsey are the main winners in latest radio ratings

Newstalk’s market share reached a new record high, industry figures show

Ciara Kelly brings fresh perspective to male-dominated Newstalk

Year in Culture Review: The news station proved a raucous alternative to staid formulaic radio

Ireland football is where Ireland rugby was 20 years ago: in the doldrums

Sideline Cut: On a night in November 1997, two Ireland teams set off on wildly different paths

Mario Rosenstock and Denis Desmond in six-figure tax-defaulter deals

Comedian and promoter make settlements with Revenue worth €118,663 and €701,025

Ivan Yates overtakes Pat Kenny on Newstalk as most radio shows gain listeners

Communicorp station reaches highest market share, while Radio 1 reverses recent slip

Today FM adds Mario Rosenstock to Sunday schedule

Sunday Business Show to run for last time this weekend

RTÉ Radio 1 adds weekend listeners, Today FM slips at lunchtime

Sports shows and Marian Finucane among the main winners in radio ratings

2fm has more daily listeners than Today FM for first time in seven years

Communicorp stations make audience gains, while Radio 1 is hit by summer slump

RTÉ’s 2fm adds listeners as Today FM slips back

Pat Kenny crosses 150,000 mark, while Radio 1 signals ‘pacier’ ‘Morning Ireland’

Radio 1’s Sean O’Rourke takes listenership to record high

RTÉ’s choice of replacement for Pat Kenny continues to pay off, new figures show

Al Porter could become ‘a real star of Irish radio’

Radio review: Porter’s show sounds footloose and carefree. By comparison, Matt Cooper seems out of touch

Orchestral manoeuvres get credit for helping 2fm to stem decline

Mixed picture for Today FM and strong figures at RTÉ Radio 1 in JNLR update

Rural development campaigners criticise EU Leader fund plan

Move to bring €250m bursary under control of councils is ‘bonkers’, committee hears

Radio at crossroads between apps and the milking parlour

Smartphones are our new listening devices, but the tradition is not quite FM

Radio: No pain, no gain as Ian Dempsey looks to create a buzz

Review: Today FM host endures tattooist’s needle as a troubled friendship plays out on 'Off the Ball'

All in the chemistry as Irish radio hopes for sparks

Toxic partnerships behind the mic can be fatal, but rapport is a joy listeners can share

Radio: Brenda Donohue finds the sunny sound of the suburbs

Review: ‘Like Family’, ‘Inside Culture’, ‘Neil Delamare’s Sunday Best’, ‘The Ian Dempsey Show’

Television: True crime’s more gripping than the fake stuff

Review: ‘The Murder Detectives ’, ‘The Mario Rosenstock Show’, ‘What in the World?’, ‘Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas’

Radio: Joe Duffy keeps his head as ‘Liveline’ goes dead

Joe Duffy’s bad studio day underlines his calming persona while Ray D’Arcy forsakes balance for indignation in abortion report

U2 play tribute at funeral of radio DJ Tony Fenton

Band perform ‘Ordinary Love’ as who’s who of broadcasting world attend service

An extra 51,000 radio listeners have joined Alison Curtis for breakfast

Today FM’s Saturday morning presenter increases audience by 60% in 12 months

Radio: Blessed are the meek? Not when it comes to bossing the airwaves

Review: Anton Savage, on Today FM, and Rick O’Shea, on RTÉ 2FM, get off to slow, uncertain starts in their new slots

Anton Savage takes Ray D’Arcy’s Today FM morning slot

Presenter will now compete with Ryan Tubridy, Pat Kenny and Sean O’Rourke

Media and Marketing in 2014: The A to Z

It was the year Bono said ‘oops’, nobody died at Today FM and Insomnia served coffee on ‘tap’

Radio 1 audience slips as Tubridy, Newstalk Breakfast grow

JNLR figures show fall in numbers tuning in to RTÉ’s Liveline, Mooney and Drivetime

Hard truths and hot faces in creative writing

Having given up my legal career in Dublin to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, now I am faced with the realities of my new path

Kenny gains but O’Rourke still well in front in radio battle

Newstalk morning slot up 18,000; RTE show down 7,000 since last survey

Mid-morning radio battle has only just begun

The latest listenership figures are tentatively encouraging for both Radio 1 and Newstalk

Ian Dempsey: ‘Everything in moderation’

RTÉ programme scoops prize at radio awards

Pat Kenny's former show wins gold at the PPI awards for best news story

Ian Dempsey inducted into radio hall of fame

Today FM broadcaster has been a mainstay of station for 15 years

Will Newstalk walk the plank with Pat Kenny?

Broadcaster comes to commercial radio loaded with confidence, but at a station with very little

Radio ratings: what to watch out for

2fm woes won’t be easily solved as Dublin stations compete for market share

Five ways 2fm can get its groove back

How can Dan Healy, the new boss at 2fm, revamp a station struggling with an identity crisis and rev it out of autopilot?

Special Olympics anniversary marked around Ireland

Supporters of 7,000 athletes celebrate achievements a decade after successful games

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