Media

Channel 6 aims to compete with MTV, Sky 1 and E4. By John Byrne

The news that the Government is shortly to introduce tough privacy laws which will recognise in Irish law the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the Princess Caroline of Monaco case will be welcomed by the vast majority of citizens. By John Waters.

Flesh and Blood, and Hide and Seek, two new RTÉ series, one fact, one fiction, both worth trying. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger

On Morning Ireland on Monday (27 March) Cathal MacCiolla introduced the presenter of the “What it says in the pape...

The phone lines at Dublin's first multi-cultural radio station, Sunrise Radio, have been ‘crazy' with ...

It was disgusting in a predictable sort of way that Britain's General “Sir” Mike Jackson had an obnoxious pop at hostage Norman Kember after his release.

It doesn't take much to make Dick Cheney happy. According to a list of his travel perks, printed by the Smoking Gun website, all he needs is a few cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite, a big bed, a pot of decaf. (And global hegemony, of course.) Dr Gloom, who once dismissed conservation as a "personal virtue", likes all the lights blazing before he gets to a hotel suite and all the TVs beaming Fox News.

Staff at the Belfast Telegraph, Northern Ireland's biggest selling daily, are to ballot on industrial action wi...

Gavin O'Reilly, chief operating officer (pictured above) at Independent News & Media (IN&M), subscribes to very different views as to how labour and capital should be rewarded.

How, then, we have changed: it is a bright afternoon in March. The sky above New York is blue as birdshell. I am walking with the Irish novelist Sebastian Barry across Brooklyn Bridge. We have no other reason than to clear our heads. To chat. To walk. There is an isolated grace to walking in New York. Everyone else seems to be moving to a purpose and we, the walkers, seem to belong to the very air of the city, as if we have become particles that float, along with every other particle in the city. It is a Whitman feeling. The wooden footpath beneath us trembles.