Miriam O'Callaghan

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Ireland’s next taoiseach: Leo Varadkar arrives at the Fine Gael count on Friday. Photograph: Alan Betson
Campaign for Leo: The inside story of how Varadkar beat Simon Coveney

Buying pints on an early-summer evening in Dublin may have seemed a pleasant task, but it was work all the same. John Paul Phelan, the Fine Gael TD fo(...)

Marian Finucane: her weekend radio show on RTÉ 1 has 366,000 listeners on Saturday, up 16,000 on the last survey, while 351,000 people tune in on Sundays, which is 9,000 more than before. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times.
Finucane, Tubridy and ‘Newstalk Breakfast’ add listeners

RTÉ Radio 1 continued to lose listeners across its weekday schedule, but the station made gains at the weekend and there are signs of stability at 2fm(...)

The coffin of RTÉ’s Colm Murray is brought into St Gabriel’s Church in Dollymount. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Funeral of broadcaster Colm Murray hears of ‘a life punctuated with love and kindness’

They supported him through the years of his cruel illness, and yesterday morning, at St Gabriel’s Church in Dollymount, the family, friends and collea(...)

Róisín Ingle on . . . a vintage weekend

Half way to Ballybunion we break the journey at the home of my friend’s parents. A coffee maker, the kind that gurgles and splutters for an age(...)