We have started uploading full episodes of Inside Politics, The Irish Times podcast I present, to YouTube. For years, the consolation of audio was that nobody had to look at the people making it. I have, as the old line goes, a face made for radio and the... See more
September 1990. A roar echoes down the Dublin dockland quays, still a jumble of dilapidated Victorian sheds and yards, over the heads of the cast and crew and the gawkers. “Stop f**king acting!” Alan Parker has come to Dublin in search of something he had... See more
Nearly half of Irish adults now say they actively try to avoid the news. In this year’s Digital News Report Ireland, produced by DCU’s FuJo research centre and published by Coimisiún na Meán, the figure reached 47 per cent, up from 41 the year before. The... See more
Nearly half of Irish adults now say they actively try to avoid the news. In this year’s Digital News Report Ireland, produced by DCU’s FuJo research centre and published by Coimisiún na Meán, the figure reached 47 per cent, up from 41 the year before. The... See more
If you wanted a single date to mark the end of the era of British broadcasting that began in a Croydon transmitter hall in 1955, the first week of July 2026 would do. That was when Sky, the pay television company owned by the US giant Comcast, agreed to b... See more
