John Fogarty speaks to former RTÉ head of sport and managing director Glen Killane about the future of Gaelic games broadcasting

This year’s contest, which will be hosted by Israel, has proven controversial and has been overshadowed by months of protest and calls for a boycott.

Eir Sport insist they remain committed to club championship coverage, despite not broadcasting any matches since April.

Few people know a thing about it but the brains behind the inaugural European Championships, starting this morning and continuing over the next 10 days in Glasgow and Berlin, plan to change all that.

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More than half of Irish millennials claim to have had sex in a public place, according to a new survey.

“We strongly believe the Eurovision Song Contest has the potential to evolve organically into a truly global event. Australia’s continued participation is an exciting step in that direction.”

TV3 could bid against RTÉ for Irish TV rights to the Olympic Games if, as expected, free-to-air rights are sub-licensed to an Irish broadcaster.

It could only happen at the Eurovision Song Contest— TV presenter preforming an electro-pop ballad dancing in front of a black screen with animated gnomes, wins the final.

It is called Eurovision, but organisers of the famous singing competition have invited Australia to take part in this year’s show.

West Cork Chamber Music Festival broke attendance records for its 37 concerts over nine days in Bantry, says Declan Townsend

CASH-STRAPPED RTÉ will have to pay out up to €10 million to broadcast the soccer World Cup and the Six Nations Rugby games this year.

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among member countries of the European Broadcasting Union.

Georgia’s entry for this year’s Eurovision song contest was banned by organisers today because its lyrics seem to poke fun at Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin.

A gas leak caused chaos in the massive building that will house thousands of world broadcasters at the Beijing Olympics today.

TELEVISION viewers will learn within weeks if their annual licence is to rise by €7 to €165 to keep pace with inflation.

IRISH dancing took third place to the steps of Finland and Ukraine at the first Eurovision Dance Contest on Saturday night.

The European Song Contest celebrates 50 years of glamour, glitz and catchy pop tunes with a special jubilee show today that lets viewers in 31 countries pick the best song in the popular event’s history.

THE eerie footage captured deep underground by a Tube passenger with a mobile phone has already become one of the more enduring images of the London bombings.

Organisers of a concert celebrating 50 years of the Eurovision Song Contest today revealed the 14 songs to be performed in a live television show on October 22.

EUROVISION - the contest that nobody watched and everyone hates - will be alive and well and coming to you from Ukraine this May.

BRITISH Olympic Association chairman Craig Reedie is frantically trying to salvage London’s faltering 2012 Olympic bid.

Organisers of a Eurovision Song Contest semi-final launched an investigation today after some countries received the wrong number of points following a technical glitch.

CLAIMS by Russian pop act, Tatu, that a cock-up in the Irish voting system denied them victory in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest have proved to be groundless.

IRELAND’S bid for the 2005 European cross-country championships will be taken a stage further next week when an evaluation committee from the European Athletics Association will visit Cork.

From the moment they stepped off a train from Moscow into a mob of screaming fans and TV cameras, provocative Russian duo tATu has stolen the show at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

LOYAL Mickey Joe Harte supporters breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when his Eurovision song was declared a true original.

Eurovision authorities have decided that this year's Irish song can be entered into the competition.

EVENTING is to be retained as an Olympic discipline, based on the reduced format proposed

WOULDN’T you know it. The one day when we’re the darlings of Europe and the entire continent is watching us on their TV screens and it mills rain.

THE Government has vowed to press ahead with its plans to ensure that all of Ireland’s competitive soccer internationals will remain available to free-to-air stations, despite the possibility of a legal challenge from Sky TV.

RTÉ’S monopoly over TV rights to the Olympic Games and World Cup soccer finals could be under threat following a landmark legal ruling by the European courts.