Tom Dunne

Gig of the Week: Féile ’19 at Semple Stadium

Horslips, Sinéad O’Connor, and hot tubs await punters making the Trip to Tipp

Soothing Shay Byrne strikes right tone for graveyard slot

Review: The presenter even makes the awful front-page news seem somehow okay

Five summer meetings for horse racing fans

Bellewstown festival in Meath could provide ideal warm up for Galway Races extravaganza

Ryan Tubridy brings a whole new meaning to ‘summer nonsense’

He hits the right note for early silly season. At his best he is entertaining on-air company

Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?

PlayIrish, a new digital radio station, aims to get small Irish acts the recognition they deserve

Patronising Ivan Yates sounds like a 1970s soccer player

The ex-government minister and businessman tackles his radio guests like a tough midfielder

Joe Duffy: ‘If Nigel Farage found an Irish granny he could become an Irish citizen’

Duffy hears from hunters of Irish passports who are ‘basically embarrassed to be British’

Is that Ivan Yates or an ostrich with its head in the sand?

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

Sean O’Rourke boxes clever as Brexit rematch turns bitter

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

Radio review: Listening to Pat Kenny talking about LSD is a trip

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

Curmudgeon Vincent Browne Vs Ray D'Arcy - it's radio gold

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

Former bank building is named Ireland’s best bar

Liquor Rooms mixologist makes spirited play for best cocktail bartender title

Former newspaper couple celebrate a year in the food business

Indian cafe celebrated its first birthday, Audrey McDonald hits the road again, seaweed snacks, special interest breaks at Kelly’s and a swanky afternoon tea

Historian warns of limits on freedom of expression in universities

Former senator Prof John A Murphy has bust unveiled at UCC for 90th birthday

Irish music muses: Meet the Galway Girl, Úna Bhán and Nancy Spain

Gerry Hanberry’s book, ‘On Raglan Road’, tells the story of the women who inspired great Irish love songs by Mick Hanly, Christy Moore, Percy French, Mundy and Phil Lynnott

Taboo or not taboo: listening to stories of domestic violence

Radio Review: Ryan Tubridy, incensed by what he hears, and Tom Dunne, as Peter Hook talks about Caroline Aherne, handle the topic sensitively

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