Having claimed on 9 April that his 'revelations' concerning Patrick Holland were a 'world exclusive' and a 'bombshell', Paul Williams acknowledged on 16 April the 'world Exclusive' 'bombshell' was neither a world exclusive nor a bombshell. By Vincent Browne
For talk radio to work the talk has to be about something. Ideally something substantial, by which I don't mean ne...
Meejit's perspective from the United States.
Notwithstanding widespread public concern about health and crime, the two ministries that are their responsibility, the Progressive Democrats (PDs) are going in to this weekend's party conference in Limerick full of confidence and determined to spell out their re-election message in unambiguous terms.
Denis O'Brien gets a lot of press. Some of it he probably sees as good, in that it reflects his view of the world and the performance of his business activities and gives him the credit and respect he believes is due for becoming rich.
A curious thing has begun to happen to me, at odd moments, strange angles. Every now and then – walking down the street, turning the corner, waiting on a railway platform, standing in a café queue – it strikes me that I've seen the faces around me before. It feels as if I've entered some curious hall of mirrors, that some other past is visiting my present, and I have seen that person before.
Despite the carping from revisionist commentators in the run up to the Easter Rising parade, romantic nationalism won out in the end and Monday's newspaper reports of the “spectacular success” were made with lumps in the throats and tears in the eyes.
A decision by the Supreme Court last week cleared the way for the Dublin Rock Consortium, otherwise known as Phantom FM, to hit the airwaves. Following an appeal by rival radio station Zed FM, the court dismissed all grounds for appeal and upheld a previous High Court decision to award the Dublin-based alternative rock radio station a broadcasting license.
Every family has one. A new series, Black Sheep, profiles the eccentric in various Irish families, starting with a 17th-century Quaker from Waterford, who may have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII
So little fun on Lyric. Actually no fun. Furrowed seriousness and demands for concentrated attention. Is there no Ronan Collins of classical music – someone with a light touch, a bit of humour, just a little fun now and again? Or Lillian Smith (she of Late Date on RTÉ Radio One when the wonderful Val Joyce is away)? Or indeed Val Joyce himself?