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Mark Thompson: The media boss on Trump, Brexit and end of print
- Media & Marketing
- December 26, 2020, 05:30
“The last newspaper has just gone into the wood stove,” says Mark Thompson, self-described news junkie, erstwhile BBC director-general and up until re(...)

A butterflied turkey may be the solution this Christmas
- Food & Drink
- December 20, 2020, 06:00
For many of us, Christmas is one of the few times we cook for a large group of people. Of course, this year that group will most likely be smaller, bu(...)

Sarah Stirk: From pro tennis dreams to the face of Sky Sports Golf
- Golf
- November 7, 2020, 05:00
Fate has a way of tossing you a curve ball and, for Sarah Stirk, who’d grown up dreaming of life as a professional tennis player, an injury in her lat(...)

The ‘enthusiastic’ Nazi who went to Donegal to learn Irish - and spy - in 1937
- Irish News
- July 25, 2020, 01:09
It could be a story from a spy novel: the German scholar who claimed to be learning Irish in Donegal but who was instead an “enthusiastic” Nazi secret(...)

From Golly Bars to Eskimo Mints: The Irish brands with a race problem
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 22, 2020, 06:00
If proof were needed that systemic racism hides in plain sight, it’s right there on our supermarket shelves. Mars is removing the image of a black fa(...)

Normal People: Is Marianne’s TV character ‘ugly’ enough?
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 21, 2020, 06:00
Fans of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People are devoted types. They tend to hold the book’s mismatched-but-also-kind-of-perfect-together couple, Marian(...)

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends to be filmed for BBC
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 25, 2020, 10:32
The BBC is to continue its burgeoning relationship with Sally Rooney by adapting the 29-year-old Irish author’s 2017 debut novel, Conversations with F(...)

Parties’ media policies a mixed bag of the ambitious and the stale
- Media & Marketing
- February 18, 2020, 05:15
With an interim phase of denial, anger and bargaining to muddle through before the Irish government formation game begins in earnest, there’s time to (...)

Conversation about BBC’s future will sound familiar to RTÉ watchers
- Media & Marketing
- January 28, 2020, 05:00
Which much-scrutinised public service broadcaster was this said about? “People want it to be smaller, but they also want to keep the bits they like.” (...)

Normal People: First trailer released for BBC’s Sally Rooney adaptation
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 17, 2020, 16:45
The first official trailer for Normal People, Sally Rooney’s award-winning novel, has been released. Rooney has adapted her coming-of-age book as a 1(...)