Did you see it? I wasn’t expecting it but I saw most of it. Maybe we should have been expecting it. The Clifden Cock-up story was getting a little stale, so what better than a moral take on the life of Martin McGuinness? Usually Fergal Keane OBE gets these republican-bashing gigs but this time, according […]
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Why I still miss Joe Brolly
I’ve just stumbled on a football article which declares that RTÉ’s Head of Sport (note the capitals) Declan McBennett is “adamant” that the right decision was made to remove Joe Brolly from The Sunday Game before last year’s All-Ireland football final replay. He doesn’t really give a reason: “The decision was made and I was […]
‘Sean O’Rourke Show on RTE’ by Joe McVeigh
I listened into some of the Sean O’Rourke programme from Castleblaney last Friday. It was about the impact of Brexit on the social and economic life of the border area. Some weeks ago, I was asked by the producers, Tara Campbell and Alistair McConnell, to take part in this programme. I agreed and spoke […]
Anne Doyle and the Wexford Rising
Why did successive governments and the Irish people of the south so desperately want the Troubles to end? Not too hard to answer that one, you say – because they didn’t want the violence spilling over into the twenty-six counties and besides, they abhorred the idea of lives on both sides being taken in the north. […]
RTÉ One, 9.30 tonight: prepare to be shocked. Or not.
Are you expecting to be surprised tonight? I hope not. Except you are very naive or have been living in a sound-proof pod buried 100 metres below ground level, you must by now be aware of claims that there was collusion between British forces in the north of Ireland and loyalist/unionist paramilitary groupings such […]
Five reasons for throwing the radio at the wall
Picture by annakovilina I’m listening to RTÉ radio as I write this and I have to hold myself back from picking up my portable radio and aiming it at the opposite wall. Why? 1. They say that U2 has recorded a track on their new album called ‘Raised By Wolves’. They’ve played a bit of it […]