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Mooney gets serious

RADIO REVIEW: FOR ALL the guises Derek Mooney has adopted in his career, from nature broadcaster to gameshow host, he is not…

Sat Feb 25 2012 - 00:00

The green under foreign colours

REBEL BALLADS may not be to everyone’s musical taste, but their ability to rouse martial ardour in Irishmen is undeniable

Sat Feb 18 2012 - 00:00

How low can you go?

RADIO REVIEW: NOBODY EVER WENT broke by underestimating the taste of the public, according to the adage, so it is hardly a shock…

Sat Feb 11 2012 - 00:00

Moscow plotter's silence the real coup

RADIO REVIEW: JUST AS IT IS SAID that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there, so it appears that if you were…

Sat Feb 04 2012 - 00:00

Too much information, George

RADIO REVIEW: A COMMON confidence-building tip given to nervous public speakers is to imagine the audience in their undergarments…

Sat Jan 28 2012 - 00:00

Pride, prejudice and the picaresque life of the Pecker

TALK TO those who have met Pecker Dunne, and anecdotes about the veteran singer soon start flowing – whether it is how he met…

Thu Jan 26 2012 - 00:00

Dunne strings his listeners along

RADIO REVIEW: AMONG THE MANY jokes musicians tell about themselves, one speaks volumes about the pecking order in the hierarchy…

Sat Jan 21 2012 - 00:00

When two nerds collide

RADIO REVIEW: A SMART CHAP whose fogeyish fashion sense and self- deprecating manner hides neither his showy cleverness nor …

Sat Jan 14 2012 - 00:00

When the presenter becomes the topic

FOR A MAN who regularly encourages his audience to get fit and stay healthy, Ray D’Arcy did not offer much in the way of succour…

Sat Jan 07 2012 - 00:00

The battle for political supremacy in the newsroom

Irish media mythology paints the programme Today Tonight as the key front in an internal and vicious tussle for power at RTÉ …

Tue Jan 03 2012 - 00:00

John Boorman's 2020 vision

Boorman’s drama was driven by a palpable distaste for injustice absent from would-be Irish satirists

Sat Dec 31 2011 - 00:00

Kim Jong-il dead? You're having a laugh

RADIO REVIEW: THIS MAY BE the time of year when children fervently express their belief in the existence of a benevolent old…

Sat Dec 24 2011 - 00:00

Mac Coille forensic on a taxing issue

NOTHING IS CERTAIN but death and taxes, yet just as some people seek to triumph over mortality through cryogenic or genetic treatments…

Sat Dec 17 2011 - 00:00

What does European culture mean?

Is the blandness of the euro note’s design symbolic of the inability of Europe to shape a shared identity? Or will the cultural…

Tue Dec 13 2011 - 00:00

Double acts and bad impressions

RADIO REVIEW: THE DECISION to stage this week’s budget over two legs may have left some observers perplexed

Sat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00

A bad week for elves and trolls

RADIO REVIEW: THE RECESSION has decimated industries and professions that thrived during the boom, but, if the airwaves are …

Sat Dec 03 2011 - 00:00

Shrugging off the saintly mantle

RADIO REVIEW: AN UNWRITTEN RULE of celebrity culture is that if a public figure is hit by serious illness, the tone of their…

Sat Nov 26 2011 - 00:00

Big pay cheques and the little people

RADIO REVIEW: THE PAYROLL and practices of the State sector came under scrutiny last week, as public-service workers robustly…

Sat Nov 19 2011 - 00:00

Arts vs politics: We haven't got the balance right

AS BEFITS a man who values his poetic vocation as highly as his political ideals, President Michael D Higgins used his inauguration…

Fri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00

Outside the Montrose comfort zone

RADIO REVIEW: HE HAS endured a torrid time of late, but if Ryan Tubridy is feeling sorry for himself, he isn’t showing it

Sat Nov 12 2011 - 00:00

The sound of huffing and puffins

ACCORDING TO an epigram variously attributed to Elvis Costello and Frank Zappa, writing about music is like dancing about architecture…

Sat Nov 05 2011 - 00:00

Striking out from the shallow end

FOR SOMEONE with a serious pedigree in news and politics, John Murray occasionally seems keen to show off his hidden shallows…

Sat Oct 29 2011 - 01:00

The problem with people's problems

RADIO REVIEW: THERE IS an episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa, the smart one, sees her belief in the irretrievable dim-wittedness…

Sat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00

So we say, 'Thank you for the music'

RADIO REVIEW: IF EVER THERE was a time for music to prove it has charms to soothe a savage breast, it was this week.

Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00

A fear of being consigned to history

RADIO REVIEW: FOR WATCHERS OF Montrose’s most famous avian specimen, these have been worrying times

Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00

Seven reasons to change the subject

RADIO REVIEW: DAVID NORRIS sounded faintly desperate as he asked the question

Sat Oct 01 2011 - 01:00

Ploughing his own whimsical furrow

AS SHE delivered her regular Word of the Day slot on Breakfast With Hector (2FM, weekdays), Evelyn McClafferty took no chances…

Sat Sept 24 2011 - 01:00

When Irish Hearts Are Praying

Smock Alley Theatre

Thu Sept 22 2011 - 01:00

Newstalk's splenetic chorus rants on

RADIO REVIEW: THERE IS A SCENE in Monty Python’s Life of Brian in which the eponymous hero wakes up to find his home surrounded…

Sat Sept 17 2011 - 01:00

Heidi and the Bear

The Pearse Centre *

Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00

Our Father

New Theatre ***

Thu Sept 15 2011 - 01:00

Hero of Moscow: Alan Kelly's marker

RADIO REVIEW: SPORT ISN’T a matter of life and death; it’s much funnier than that

Sat Sept 10 2011 - 01:00

No relief from empty mortgage talk

TIPPING POINT, critical mass, cumulative effect: call it what you will, there are times when a story inexorably gains such momentum…

Sat Sept 03 2011 - 01:00

From Virgin Prunes to elder lemons

RADIO REVIEWS: CONSIDERING they have been close friends for nearly 40 years, Gavin Friday and Guggi got off on the wrong foot…

Sat Aug 27 2011 - 01:00

When experience doesn't quite add up

RADIO REVIEW: THE HIGH failure rates for Leaving Cert maths occasioned much hand-wringing last week, as politicians and business…

Sat Aug 20 2011 - 01:00

Graveyard shift Dineen should rise again

Broadcaster Donal Dineen gained a cult following at Today FM, and the axing of his show reminds us of his impact on Irish radio…

Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00

When it all gets too cosy for comfort

RADIO REVIEW: FANS OF Derek Mooney, it is probably safe to assume, do not tune into his radio show expecting to hear forensic…

Sat Aug 13 2011 - 01:00

RTÉ launches new schedule

RTÉ launched its new season of television programming at its Montrose headquarters in Dublin today, unveiling a package of more…

Wed Aug 10 2011 - 01:00

The names and numbers don't add up

RADIO REVIEW: IT SHOULD come as no surprise that Colm Hayes (2FM, weekdays) was obsessing over numbers last Tuesday.

Sat Aug 06 2011 - 01:00

When nature calls, timing is everything

RADIO REVIEW: AS A CURSORY scan of the dial testifies, a lot of people talk crap on the radio

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

Tubridy eases into Norton seat with cool mix of confidence and chutzpah

RADIO REVIEW: THE WEEK before he started work for the BBC, Ryan Tubridy received some cautionary advice from the presenter he…

Mon Jul 25 2011 - 01:00

Two ways to apply the populist touch

RADIO REVIEW: SAY WHAT you like about Joe Duffy, his interest in other people’s misfortune is genuine

Sat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00

Want to talk? Then stay quiet

RADIO REVIEW: CONSIDERING ITS name holds out the promise of sonic clarity, High Fidelity (Lyric, Mondays) labours under a misnomer…

Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00

Is Ryan Tubridy cueing up for a big UK break?

RTÉ’s star broadcaster is heading off to the Beeb, to stand in for Graham Norton on Radio 2

Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00

No Minister: the arts cannot save Ireland

SO ONCE again, kitted out in ramshackle armour and sat upon a flea-bitten nag, Ireland’s artistic heritage is called upon to …

Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00

What's happened to the presenters?

RADIO REVIEW: D’Arcy attempted to fit himself into a suitcase. It was a spur- of-the-moment item that crackled with fun

Sat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00

Anchors relish Healy-Rae roasting

RADIO REVIEW: AS HE SQUIRMED in front of a succession of microphones last week, Michael Healy-Rae came across as an unlikely…

Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00

McIlroy hype cut short by blame game

RADIO REVIEW: IT IS ALWAYS nice to start the week on a high, so as Monday morning news bulletins north and south hummed with…

Sat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00

For all his bluster, Hook packs a punch Radio moment of the week

RADIO REVIEW: IN A POPULAR culture obsessed with youth and newness, the concept of growing old disgracefully can seem the ultimate…

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00

Who bothers with fiction any more?

IT WILL BE a red-letter day for bookshops, already dubbed Super Thursday

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00
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