Mark Cagney

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Charlie Bird is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more

As Sarah McInerney serves out her final week as presenter of RTÉ Radio 1’s coveted mid-morning slot, it appears that Montrose management have missed a(...)

Ivan Yates suffuses a discussion on Irritable Bowel Syndrome with a disarming sense of humour. Photograph: Newstalk
Ivan Yates turns the blowtorch on all politicians

The news that Ivan Yates is planning to retire from broadcasting later this year may come as a blow to his fans – and a fillip to his rivals – but per(...)

Mark Cagney: Having exited his longtime role as host of Virgin Media’s television show Ireland AM, he has recently been popping up on Newstalk, in this instance as a stand-in for Ivan Yates. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins
Mark Cagney breezes through the storm on his return to radio

With much of last week spent in expectation of the coming storm, intense speculation about its impact dominates conversation on the airwaves. There ar(...)

From TV3 to Virgin Media: 20 years of lights, cameras and survival

The test card had been transmitting for 12 days before the Indian summer’s Sunday when taoiseach Bertie Ahern pushed the button that put TV3 on air. I(...)

GourmetFuel co-founder Emma Buckley: “I do try to put the laptop down, put the phone on airplane mode and focus on important quality time at home.”
Inside Track: GourmetFuel co-founder Emma Buckley

GourmetFuel is a health food company started by siblings, Rob and Emma Buckley. Incorporated in 2014, it began trading January 2015 with a year of res(...)

Radio head: Ian Wilson, who will leave RTÉ in 2018 after 40 years with the station. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Ian Wilson on why RTÉ needs to ‘take chances, be ahead of the curve, be a leader'

Everyone in the RTÉ canteen seems to know Ian Wilson. The radio producer has a nod and words for every table, from the production team taking a break (...)

Georgie Fame, John Minihan and Van Morrison outside Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Soho London 1994
Blowin’ our mind: what Van Morrison means to us
  • Van
  • August 29, 2015, 06:00

PAUL BRADY The first time I met Van Morrison was the summer of 1980. We shared an agent at the time, Paul Charles at the Asgard agency, and I had jus(...)

Flour power: Taoiseach Enda Kenny with presenter Alan Hughes and baker Catherine Leyden on TV3’s ‘Ireland AM’. Photgraph: Brian McEvoy
Planet Business

Image of the week: Breakfast with Enda It was off to Ballymount this week for Enda Kenny, who dropped into TV3’s Ireland AM for the first time (...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny: ‘Are the Irish people going to deny their own kith and kin the right to have a marriage contracted in civil law if that’s what they wish to do?’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Taoiseach confident same-sex marriage referendum will pass

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the Irish people will be denying rights to their “kith and kin” if they vote No in the upcoming same-sex marriage refere(...)