Also the Blue Planet team chart the story of life on Earth over the course of a single day

A new documentary on Germaine Greer is among the TV highlights

An Post launches competition to decide Christmas stamp themes

Big increase in children accessing Childlline service via live web chat service

Patrick Freyne: What I learned from the role models making the headlines

Twenty years and thousands of repeats later, Ireland still lives in Craggy Island’s shadow

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

‘Late Late Toy Show’ leads way with 1.35m viewers while all entries are RTÉ shows

An animated Frank McCourt story, a Fairytale of New York doc and Mrs Brown

Stars of Mrs Brown’s Boys reportedly put over £2 million into companies in Mauritius

Avocado Hand: An epidemic that afflicts incompetent slicers of trendy fruits is to be welcomed

He steered Dave Fanning and Gerry Ryan to fame and helped devise ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, but as he prepares to leave RTÉ, producer Ian Wilson chides the national broadcaster for being risk-averse

Twelve of the top 20 are sports events with three Euro 2016 matches in top five

Abseilers and aerial dancers woo crowd of 5,000 as Dublin marks the countdown

After 40 years the Callan family is bowing out of the seasonal fowl business

Audiences are fragmenting, but ‘Late Late Toy Show’ remains shiny and bright for RTÉ

Winning TV shows include ‘Daniel & Majella’s B&B Road Trip’ and ‘The Day Henry Met’

‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ actor Rory Cowan helps raise awareness after being poisoned

Articulate, charming actor could not have been further removed from Fr Jack’s personality

Rugby World Cup a ratings winner for TV3 with one million watching Ireland vs France

Rising drama proves a hit with Irish audiences as broadcaster tops Christmas ratings

Just under 700,000 viewers tuned in to RTÉ on Christmas Eve for the festive special

Films such as ‘Gravity’, ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Captain Phillips’ to be screened over holiday period

Notable winners include Sharon Horgan, Baz Ashmawy and Brendan O’Carroll

Lee Gibson (10) has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair

Studies show that swearing eases pain, is cathartic, helps bonding and lets off destructive steam... but beware of overuse, lest you lessen the effect

The news from Dublin to Kerry; Belfast to Cork; Sligo to Waterford

There are so many positives that it seems like very bad luck that overcooked halibut lands on the critic’s table

Toy Show fills top six slots in Ireland’s 50 most-watched programmes of all time

‘If anyone ever ran a movie service based on their own taste, it would be a failure,’ says director Ian Lewis

Fundraising initiative by Savills generated over €50,000 for various cancer charities

Pensioner who died while walking her dog Casper, died of hypothermia after falling into ravine

Resist the urge to push your fists into your eyes and rotate them furiously - yes it is that mutt from Britain’s Got Talent on your cinema screen

Keating’s Aussie musical among the movies steamrolled by the Brendan O’Carroll juggernaut

Mrs Brown’s Boys film grosses €6.4 million in Ireland and the UK in opening weekend

Brendan O’Carroll’s big-screen debut has clunky gags and a threadbare story. Oh, and it will be one of the biggest hits of d’summer

Brendan O’Carroll celebrates film premiere with family, friends and army of fans

June Rodgers and Brenda Brooks in conversation with Frances O’Rourke