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Veteran broadcaster Dick Liver joins us on Reviewables this week to talk about his drug-fuelled days in RTÉ, playing Russian Roulette with Larry Gogan, feuding with Mike Murphy and his brief time on Republic of Telly with Edwin Sammon. ?…

I never thought that I would interview Willard Willis. He was a strange case, at the same time, an enigma, people not sure if he was dead or alive, yet internationally famous and renowned. Beginning his career as a kitchen boy in the…

News Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards From a small base of three categories in 2007, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards have grown over the years to include fifteen categories spanning many literary genres. Every year readers have the…

Mark Baldwin is the creator and star of Ends Meet, a seven-part series of animated shorts on the RTÉ Player which will be made into a full half-hour series on RTÉ 2 in the autumn. Rebecca Keane had a friendly chat with him about the series,…

Sorry. I'm so sorry. It's been so long. I won't bore you with why it's been so long but know that I'm sorry. To get us back into the swing of things, this week's Digest is mostly about two big things that have happened in the world of Irish…

This week, Enda Kenny visited Donald Trump, someone poured an atrocious pint, we got the referendum we've all been gasping for, and there was a protest at RTE. The EU also ruled that employers were allowed to ban the hijab in the workplace,…

On March 8th, an estimated 10,000 people partook in a march in Dublin to protest Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, which positions the life of the unborn as equal to that of its mother. This restricts abortion access for Irish women and forces…

From an outrageous year in Irish music, it’s no surprise that this year’s Choice Music Prize 2017 shortlist is solid as hell. Decided by a panel of Irish ‘industry types’, the winner will be announced on the 9th of March 2017. For those not…

New Irish comedy-drama, Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, feels like a step in the right direction for RTE. The network in recent years has suffered from a lack of creativity, doling out spin-offs to Republic of Telly (The Fear, Damo & Ivor,…

It is the duty of the opposition to bring checks and balances to bear upon whatever government is the incumbent. Parties that fall short of a majority during elections are meant to become our protectors – alerting us to any misdeed or…