Claire Byrne
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Leaders’ TV debate: Martin puts in his best performance so far
- Irish News
- January 30, 2020
The only missing ingredients from the latest leaders’ debate were individual entrance tunes for each of the participants, just like in professional wr(...)

The Irish Times view on climate and the election: The missing issue
- Editorial
- January 28, 2020, 19:00
Tackling climate change is “the biggest challenge our country has ever faced”. Green Party leader Eamon Ryan made this opening comment on the Claire B(...)

Election 2020 TV debate: The best debater is, unexpectedly, Richard Boyd Barrett
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 28, 2020
Seven leaders stand in a row at podiums looking like they’re at the starting line of the world’s most tedious Segway race. RTÉ assembled them here at&(...)

General election debate: Leaders fail to hit home runs but avoid major mishaps
- Politics
- January 28, 2020
Nobody messed up, but nobody hit a home run either in the first seven-way leaders’ debate of the general election campaign. Heading into the RTÉ deba(...)

Aontú leader withdraws action seeking to halt RTÉ election debate
- High Court
- January 27, 2020, 11:49
Aontú party Peadar Tóibín has withdrawn his application for a High Court injunction preventing tonight’s planned political leaders debate due to broad(...)

Election 2020: RTÉ rejects calls for leaders’ debate on climate
- Politics
- January 24, 2020, 12:32
RTÉ has rejected calls for a dedicated leaders’ TV debate on the climate issue, which campaigners claim is warranted given the scale of the global war(...)

Election 2020: Varadkar and Martin’s first TV debate set for Wednesday
- Politics
- January 20, 2020, 11:24
The first televised leaders’ debate between the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will take place on Wednesday night on Vir(...)

RTÉ will not include Sinn Féin in second TV debate despite legal threat
- Politics
- January 19, 2020, 17:55
RTÉ has reiterated that it will not be including Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald in the Prime Time leaders’ debate scheduled for the last week o(...)

Marian Finucane funeral: ‘She made the world easier to live in’
- Irish News
- January 7, 2020, 12:16
The late RTÉ radio presenter Marian Finucane was remembered as “an icon of Irish broadcasting” at her funeral in Kill, Co Kildare. The veteran broadc(...)

Jennifer O'Connell: We’re living in a golden age of TV. Try telling that to RTÉ
- People
- November 16, 2019, 06:00
We’ll never see his like again. That phrase, trotted out whenever a much-loved figure dies, is both incontestably true and utterly meaningless. But in(...)