Tony O'Reilly is set to add to his fortune a further €1.4 billion from the development of oil and gas prospects off the west coast of Ireland, a resource given to him for virtually nothing by the State and from which the Exchequer will gain almost nothing. By Frank Connolly

Edward O'Hare speaks to Mamo McDonald, organiser of Bealtaine, a festival celebrating creativity in older age.

Andy O'Mahony remains one of RTÉ's best broadcasters. Correction, one of radio's best broadcasters. A wonderfully mellifluous voice, great intelligence, coherence and fluency. His Off the Shelf programmes on Saturday evenings are one of the joys of radio. His programme of 6 May, was a particular delight. It was a discussion of Postwar: A History of Europe by Tony Judt and the participants were Alan Dukes and two historians, Judith Devlin and Michael Laffan.

On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Holland's most famous painter, Rembrant van Rijn, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam presents an exhibition of his paintings alongside those of his contemporary, Caravaggio. Kay Sheehy travels to the Dutch capital to meet the museum's curator, and to compare and contrast the work of these two great artists for RTÉ Radio 1's visual arts series, Eye Candy.
Above are two of the great works, Rembrandt's 'The Jewish Bride' and Caravaggio's 'The Coversion of the Magdalen'

Colin Murphy on two tales of Dublin, both political, but in very different ways

An intimate look at the life of a young poet through the eyes of her father in Home Movie Nights, the life of a soldier wronged by the hands of time in Two Civilisations and the lives of drugged-up teenagers expressed through dance in Joyride

Every couple of weeks or so, a newspaper runs a report about "deadbeat dads". Sometimes it's the Irish Examiner, occasionally the Irish Times (though it tends not to use the phrase), but usually it's the Irish Independent. The "facts" of this story are usually presented as follows: about 80,000 people, mostly women, are in receipt of the One-Parent Family Payment. In each case, the absent parent is required to pay towards the upkeep of the child. However, figures from the Department of Social and Family Affairs show that only a small percentage are doing so.

Eamon Dunphy launched Newstalk's new premium rate text service on air on Tuesday 2 May by emphasising that it was cheaper to telephone or email the programme and telling listeners that "unfortunately" texts would now cost 30 cents.

Campaigners object to ads for European Union's 'Europe Direct' information service. By Colin Murphy

Edward O'Hare speaks to writer DBC Pierre at the Cúirt Literature Festival in Galway.