The Marian Finucane Show will today be a celebration of the late presenter’s career, RTÉ has announced.

RTÉ journalists want fees and salaries paid to the broadcaster's top presenters and managers to be “slashed”.

Trade unions at RTÉ are warning they will ballot members for industrial action if the broadcaster tries to force pay cuts and mandatory redundancies on staff.

The proposed cutbacks at State broadcaster RTE are appropriate given a bailout from the taxpayer “would not be a satisfactory solution” according to a Government minister.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has described the treatment of a TG4 cameraman at a public meeting on Achill island earlier this week as “deeply disturbing”.

A local authority is to reverse a move to exclude the media and public from policy meetings.

The 57-year-old woman arrested this morning by detectives investigating the murder of Lyra McKee has been released unconditionally.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney will travel to the North tomorrow for talks with the region’s main political parties amid growing pressure for them to form a new coalition government in the aftermath of Lyra McKee’s murder.

The men, aged 18 and 19, were arrested by PSNI detectives this morning.

The banning of live texting and tweeting by members of the public from the courts will “protect the integrity of Irish trials”.

The judge directed bona fide members of the press may attend and report such applications but, before the court sits to hear such cases, they must make themselves known to the court registrar and produce satisfactory identification such as a National Union of Journalists card.

The head of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ireland has questioned the reasons for Ryanair not inviting business reporters to attend its annual general meeting (AGM) next week.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has appealed for staff at INM to be supported to continue their work when High Court inspectors begin their investigations into the company’s affairs.

Communications Minister Denis Naughten should remove himself from any media merger decisions unless he issues a public statement accepting he was wrong to discuss Independent News and Media’s (INM) bid for Celtic Media with a lobbyist.

Communications Minister Denis Naughten will not be forced from office by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar or Fianna Fáil, despite facing accusations of giving out “inside information” over a media deal.

It was as bad a day in the office as Denis Naughten has had in more than six years.

Reports that a Northern Ireland-based journalist has been subjected to a death threat from a loyalist paramilitary group has prompted condemnations across the political divide.

Draft legislation aimed at reforming State access to communication data is in breach of European law, a leading human rights body has warned.

Women employed by RTÉ are more likely to occupy the lowest paid roles in the organisation than men and are vastly outnumbered in the highest paid categories.

The gender pay gap across the BBC is just over 9% - half the national average - and there is no "systemic" gender discrimination in the organisation, a review has found.

Michael Clifford’s opinion piece about the George Hook sacking (Irish Examiner, September 16) includes throwaway comments about the 1983 “right to life” referendum campaign.

Shares in Independent News and Media (INM) rallied yesterday, after a turbulent week ended with the group announcing a deal for pension scheme members.

Media groups have hailed a decision by the European Court of Human Rights which upheld an appeal by Independent Newspapers regarding a record €1.25m libel payout.

The leaders of a secondary teachers’ union were urged to engage in efforts to resolve a dispute with their office staff, who are being asked to consider striking to get their employers to the table.

Children of gardaí have been approached on a football pitch and told their father is a “scumbag” for policing a protest after being identified via social media, a Garda conference has heard.

Mid-ranking gardaí are being harassed by online trolls who are circulating images of their family home, their partners, and even their children on social media.

Recruitment numbers and staff shortages are expected to be raised by the AGSI President, Antoinette Cunningham, at their annual conference today.

Calls have been made on Michael Lowry to step aside from an Oireachtas committee because of his perceived links to businessman Denis O’Brien.

A news website at the centre of plagiarism accusations went offline yesterday, less than 48 hours after its owner said the outlet was ‘here to stay’.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has urged Independent News and Media (INM) pension fund trustees to appeal the company’s plan to close its defined benefit pension scheme to the High Court.

As of 1940, primary school was the sole source of education for 90% of the population. Fifty years ago, Donogh O’Malley outlined an initiative that would finally change all that, writes Ryle Dwyer 

A Bill aimed at protecting freelance workers has been passed by the Seanad.

A young Irish woman has died and Garda Ombudsman Commissioner Kieran Fitzgerald is in a critical condition after separate holiday accidents in Spain.

The failure of the political establishment to address the issue of media ownership could have serious implications for public interest journalism, the Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists Seamus Dooley has warned.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has expressed “alarm” at the latest incident in which gardaí forced a Dublin-based photographic agency to hand over images of a protest

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A number of reporters attached to Independent News and Media have been told by Gardaí that their safety is at risk from organised criminals.