RTÉ has announced that Lesley Roy and her song Story of My Life will represent Ireland in Rotterdam this May.

Bonnie Ryan couldn’t be happier.

As the newly elected President of the FAI, Gerry McAnaney has a six-month term of office in which to play his part in taking the Association from what he calls ‘a very dark place’. In this exclusive interview, the former League of Ireland goalkeeper and Army commandant takes us through his colourful life and times in football.

A rape victim who successfully campaigned for victim impact statements to be introduced in court said hearing the Kriegels' words after their daughter’s killers were convicted of murder and sexual assault were “the most important" she’s heard since she started campaigning.

A wedding later this month, a 15-month-old baby, plus radio and TV gigs — you’d think Kathryn Thomas has enough on her plate right now. But no, she’s just decided to take her Pure Results bootcamp to Spain for the first time. Pat Fitzpatrick finds out more.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

“The Ryan Line is open”

Rape survivor Lavinia Kerwick is one of the people to pay tribute to Ryan as the show went out on air.

The Irish dancing phenomenon, Riverdance, is 25-years-old today.

At 1.93m tall, and with shoulders that could carry a nation, it’s not that difficult to imagine Republic of Ireland defender Shane Duffy as a nightclub bouncer keeping Manchester United out of his penalty area in the FA Cup at Old Trafford tomorrow; and it’s an image he is perfectly happy to embrace.

Lottie Ryan has spoken about her wedding day, saying her father was greatly missed on the day.

George Patterson fronts The Roaring Forties, a band formed in 2003 for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. 

One third of the 98 bee species in Ireland are threatened with extinction while three-quarters of the country’s wild plants require insect pollinators.

John Creedon heads down the Shannon in his latest summer travel show for RTE. The leisurely cruise allowed him to reminisce on his long career on radio and TV. He talks to Ailin Quinlan about three decades at RTE.

Lottie is the eldest of the five children and had her two sisters, Bonnie and Babette acting as her bridesmaids.

Dolphin 22 Old Wesley 10: Relief for Dolphin who jumped from the bottom spot in Division 1B of the Ulster Bank League and have now given themselves a fighting chance of avoiding the dreaded drop.

"I'm a wife"

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

By engorging the presidency... it disturbs a delicate equilibrium in which the president is primarily a bulwark for restraint in the face of potential irresponsibility, writes Gerard Howlin.

Beekeepers donned their suits at the gates of Leinster House to protest against new legislation they say threatens the country’s bee population.

Hilary Fennell sits down this week with RTÉ Radio 1 ’Drivetime’ broadcaster, Mary Wilson, to chat about the wisdom she’s gained through her career.

A 25-year-old bar assistant who slipped on pigeon faeces at the open-air restaurant in which she worked at Dublin’s Heuston Rail Station has been awarded almost €25,000 damages against CIÉ.

Dolphin 19 Ballynahinch 35: Dolphin coach David Corkery was far from impressed after watching his charges capitulate to a strong Ballynahinch at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

Four familiar voices from the airwaves have landed on the PPI Radio Awards hall of fame.

Clodagh Finn meets the force of nature that is Lottie Ryan. She is preparing for the Breast Cancer Ireland’s Great Pink Run in August.

Almost 12,000 hectares of Irish bogland once harvested by Bord na Móna have been rehabilitated into eco-friendly resources, the company said.

Operation Transformation presenter Kathryn Thomas talks to Deirdre Reynolds about sleepless nights, spreadsheets and her new fitness bootcamps.

RTÉ’s top 10 highest-paid presenters earned a combined pay of more than €2.6m in 2014, the broadcaster has revealed.

From Kavanagh country to a TV career, comedian Oliver Callan has found satire to be anything but stoney ground, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

RTÉ has refused to say who will fill the slot left vacant on 2FM after Ryan Tubridy rejoins Radio 1 to present a new morning programme.

Performing has been in my blood from the get-go. It has manifested in many different ways, from singing, to dancing and acting.

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has criticised a committee she is a member of for failing to probe further claims by a whistleblower about former politicians allegedly evading tax.

Just a day after she should have been celebrating her 19th birthday, Dublin teenager Ana Hick, who died after taking esctasy, was laid to rest following a packed funeral Mass.

FA Cup Fourth Round

The Public Accounts Committee has been told it cannot hold a private meeting with a whistleblower behind allegations of tax evasion.

New laws to protect whistleblowers are not clear enough on how they can present information or appear before TDs and Senators at committees.

The Public Accounts Committee is to ask the Attorney General whether a whistleblower should be allowed to attend for a public hearing.

The Office of the Revenue Commissioner will be brought before the Public Accounts Committee within weeks to discuss whether it was allowed to properly examine the Ansbacher scandal.

The whistleblower civil servant who alleges former senior politicians were engaged in tax evasion will not be allowed give evidence before the Public Accounts Committee, TDs have been told.

The deputy leader of Sinn Féin has claimed "household names" in the Progressive Democrats are among figures named in a dossier alleging tax evasion in politics.

The Department of Jobs says a witness statement from the tax evasion whistleblower has now been sent to Gardaí.

The Department of Jobs has insisted that Minister Richard Bruton has not ignored allegations of tax evasion raised by a civil servant.

At heart I’m still an old hippy. I veer between cynicism and idealism.

A plaque in memory of Gerry Ryan was unveiled today at the RTÉ radio centre.

1994: The One with Whigfield, Ray Houghton, Blur v Oasis, Riverdance and THAT Guinness ad.