Ciara Kelly

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Nose picking, pimple squeezing and expectorating: Newstalk’s stomach-turning breakfast radio

Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman test their listeners’ appetites, but their theatrical chalk-and-cheese act is strangely comforting

Ciara ‘don’t call me Ciara’ Kelly and Shane ‘call me Shane’ Coleman hone their double act

Radio review: The Newstalk Breakfast duo provide diversion as well as information

Pierre Zakrzewski, my old classmate, was charismatic, selfless and loyal

Radio review: Tributes to the late Irish journalist had a personal resonance for Mick Heaney

Ryan Tubridy’s ‘nice little distraction’ now number two Irish radio show

Claire Byrne, Matt Cooper and Pat Kenny among ratings winners

Bad blood between Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman on Newstalk

Radio: The presenters argue over restriction. It is a welcome diversion

Claire Byrne is radio’s prefect, Cormac Ó hEadhra and Sarah McInerney its maverick cops

Radio in 2021: Radio 1’s new guard found their voice, Newstalk stayed scrappy

Ciara Kelly: I want to hug people, go to parties. They’re part of what makes life worth living

Christmas in My House: The broadcaster expects a raucous affair even if it's just immediate family

Ryan Tubridy now has the second biggest weekday radio programme in Ireland

Newstalk’s Pat Kenny and Today FM’s Dermot & Dave among JNLR ratings winners

Tony Holohan’s best is not quite good enough for Ciara Kelly

Radio: The Newstalk host presses the chief medical officer on his pandemic response

A Covid bonus? Pat Kenny can’t hide his irritation

Radio: The Newstalk host also disapproves of sloppy attire and sloppy thinking

The many kinds of general practitioner

Delivering a soundbite is not too different from giving a take-home message to a patient

Stephen Donnelly gives unconvincing National Maternity Hospital performance

Radio: Minister for Health is smooth on the Delta variant but rattled by the hospital saga

Close call for Taoiseach as Dublin Zoo welcomes visitors

Huge demand for limited tickets after site reopens for first time since Christmas

Cormac Ó hEadhra, usually an irresistible force, is stopped by an immovable bureaucrat

Radio: RTÉ’s Drivetime host is frustrated by a spokesman’s stance on Covid vaccines

Claire Byrne and Matt Cooper flog the dead horse

Radio: Meanwhile serious public issues, like the Central Bank’s €4.1m fine of Davy, got little airtime

The ghost of Ivan Yates haunts Kieran Cuddihy’s Hard Shoulder

Radio: Cuddihy is skilled and energetic, yet his Newstalk show seldom hits the mark

We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright side

RTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formula

Ciara Kelly hits radio gold as health expert suggests postponing Christmas

Newstalk host sounds sceptical as Trinity College professor floats a novel idea to delay festivities

Ciara Kelly: I was pregnant, unmarried, a junior doctor and I got old-school comments

Parenting in my shoes: Broadcaster and doctor says pregnancy never suited her

Pandemic allows Ireland the opportunity to walk the walk with abandon

National Walking Day is the perfect time for people to join a modern mass movement

Covid-19: Doctors call for ‘utterly meaningless’ daily figures to be dropped

Daily briefings are causing unnecessary anxiety and should be switched to a weekly basis, number of doctors argue

Newstalk’s new drivetime host Kieran Cuddihy tries too hard at taking it easy

Overeagerness aside, Cuddihy can make a success of his show, as can Andrea Gilligan

Covid-19: Post-coronavirus syndrome is ‘absolutely a real thing’

What does recovery look like, and why are some people more affected than others?

Ray D’Arcy, almost overcome by calamity, presents his most memorable show in ages

Radio review: Glitches pile up as the host hears pandemic stories from all 32 counties

Ciara Kelly, Covid-19 patient and self-isolation advocate, changes her mind

Radio: The presenter’s questions are less urgent health queries than audience clickbait

Ciara Kelly’s Isolation Diary: ‘The virus is outside the door, but we’re still ripping the p*** out of each other’

The broadcaster and GP wants to rejoin her medical colleagues after overcoming Covid-19

A GP writes: ‘We have had to dramatically change the way we work’

‘It is exhausting, working like this, typing and talking down the phone and evaluating risk’

I have ‘something personal’ to share, Ciara Kelly told listeners

69 new cases of coronavirus had been detected the previous day. ‘I am one of them,’ she said

Coronavirus: Radio presenter Ciara Kelly tells listeners she has Covid-19

‘A lovely paramedic came, in full gear, to my house and swabbed my throat and my nose’

Hosts keep calm and carry on talking as coronavirus stories spread

RTÉ's Sean O'Rourke and 98FM shock jock Adrian Kennedy tamp down fears but Ciara Kelly has other ideas

Ciara Kelly tries to stir the autism controversy without offending anyone. She fails

Radio review: Ray D’Arcy shows all politics is personal, while Ciara Kelly ties herself in knots

Ciara Kelly’s Newstalk show has lost its zing

Review: Every radio show has filler, but Ciara Kelly has had the trowel out a lot recently

Morning Ireland extends lead in radio ratings

Radio 1’s Liveline reclaims second spot, while 2fm signals plans for more video streaming

Ryan Tubridy makes heavy weather of Greta Thunberg's climate crusade

Presenter catches flak over his clunky concern for teenage activist’s health

Ciara Kelly: ‘I can see many reasons not to vote for a united Ireland’

Radio: The Newstalk host appears to share callers' doubts about reunification

Katie Hannon gets personal as abortion arguments turn nasty

Presenter brings her own experiences to charged exchanges on Liveline, while Ciara Kelly shows her bedside manner in bleak conversation

Majella Moynihan: ‘They portrayed me as an easy woman’

Radio review: Her tale of forced adoption sounds like the stuff of fiction but is all too real

If Today FM was any more lifeless, you’d need to call 999

Dermot and Dave’s show is good-natured, aimless and generic, like Today FM itself

Back pain: ‘I am part-machine but still dream of wearing f*ck-off red stilettoes’

My pain consultant told me I would be a perfect candidate for a neurostimulator

‘People died so we could watch Irish celebrities on Dancing with the Stars?’

Radio review: Kieran Cuddihy and Shane Coleman bring fresh energy to Newstalk Breakfast

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