Dave Fanning

Cult new wave national treasures The Atrix return with a gig, a CD and new material

Michael O’Shea, a talented experimental musician who died in 1991, was the definition of enigmatic

The cult Dublin fanzine celebrated a grim, golden age of originality and ambition

The much-loved, open-minded broadcaster moves to RTÉ Gold at the end of January

The band’s Experience + Innocence tour is deeply nostalgic yet very plugged in

Conor Pope: The Boomtown Rats, Bowie, Toasted Heretic, Shakira, Cyndi Lauper and, ahem, Gary Glitter

From the Archive. Memories of Rolling Stones Irish gigs in 1982 and 2007

Dave Fanning’s interviews reveal a person who understood fame, depression and grief

Drink driving coverage is illuminating and spirit-crushingly tedious

Radio Review: Pointless conversations are not the wished-for antidote to horrific news

He steered Dave Fanning and Gerry Ryan to fame and helped devise ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, but as he prepares to leave RTÉ, producer Ian Wilson chides the national broadcaster for being risk-averse

Radio review: ‘Father Ted’ writer Graham Linehan, talking to Newstalk’s Sean Moncrieff, is clear on his opposition to the nuns owning the National Maternity Hospital

It waits in the wings and creeps up on you, just when you thought you were done with nappies

Lissadell co-owner says 2010 concerts made up ‘one of most incredible weekends in my life’

Famed for being a confrontational listening experience, it still sounds dazzlingly fresh

Review: Today FM host endures tattooist’s needle as a troubled friendship plays out on 'Off the Ball'

Review: Irish radio this week shows the perils and the pearls to be found in social-media stories

Byrne, Tubridy, Balfe, Murphy among those paying tributes to late Limerick man

Radio review: Lyric’s schedule is not for moving, while 2FM trumpets Eurovision star Nicky Byrne

From half-hearted applause to total starman: David Bowie’s biggest Irish gigs remembered

A year of ‘Poldark’, paranoia and seeing off a threat from Pixie Pickle Pants

Singer says Europe’s response to crisis has been shameful

Tony Fenton: March 25th, 1961 - March 12th, 2015

Band perform ‘Ordinary Love’ as who’s who of broadcasting world attend service

Hadfield in Dublin to promote book featuring 150 photos taken from space

Anita Notaro: September 14th, 1955 - November 26th, 2014

U2 singer claims ‘real deliberate misunderstanding of this relationship with Apple’

Since the J1 visa programme began, nearly 50 years ago, more than 150,000 Irish students have spent a summer in the US. As the US embassy hosts an event about the programme, some of its alumni look back on their long-ago summers

It is estimated that as many as 150,000 Irish people have availed of the visa

The band’s free album prompts cosy memories on ‘Liveline’, but Ray D’Arcy takes a more jaded view

Hundreds of visitors descend on the shores of Lough Foyle to pay tribute to Dylan

Station chief says he expects station’s turnaround would start from a low base

Film inspired by Jon Ronson memoir depicts both joyous creativity and mental collapse

He may talk a mile a minute, but Dave Fanning’s quickfire chat is always entertaining

The latest listenership figures are tentatively encouraging for both Radio 1 and Newstalk

How can Dan Healy, the new boss at 2fm, revamp a station struggling with an identity crisis and rev it out of autopilot?