The State’s new postcode will not deliver the value for money when it is launched next month, a senator and professor of economics at Trinity College has warned.

GAA President Liam O'Neill has told the Oireachtas Committee on Communications that the GAA is taking advantage of "more options than ever before" when it comes to broadcasting GAA around the world.

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube chiefs face being called to give evidence before Oireachtas members over cyberbullying and to outline actions the firms are taking to protect users.

Comment on social media sites such as Twitter might come under stricter control, with TDs and senators set to examine potential measures.

The Oireachtas committee on Communications is due to meet early in the new year to set out a plan of action to examine the role of social media in public debate.

An Oireachtas Committee has been hearing from Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) chiefs about its findings against RTÉ.

THE Government will be obliged to promote a new EU-wide hotline for missing children from May 2011 – even though the service will be unavailable in Ireland for the foreseeable future.

ATTACKS on post offices have increased by two thirds despite more than €15 million being poured into An Post security and alarm systems in recent years.

Under-pressure Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny tonight secured the backing of his front bench amid the fall-out from the resignation of one of the party’s highest profile TDs.

JOHN CREGAN TD, chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, is critical of the amount of time RTÉ has devoted to the coverage of the Taoiseach’s engagement with the Mahon Tribunal (Letters, March 1).

DEPUTY John Cregan’s partisan letter (March 1) attacking RTÉ for its coverage of the Mahon Tribunal is a flagrant abuse of his position as chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, and it represents neither Fine Gael members of that committee nor “the Irish taxpayer and the licence-paying public”, as it claims.

RTÉ’s obsession with the Mahon Tribunal is an issue of extreme concern to me and many of my fellow-members of the Oireachtas.

The Communications Regulator is due to appear before a Dáil commitee today to answer questions about the Smart Telecom debacle.

Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey yesterday publicly rejected, for the second time in a month, the findings of the backbench parliamentary committee that monitors his department.

Mobile phone operators today denied deliberate overcharging customers after three separate scandals in the last six months.

THE former Marine Minister Frank Fahey yesterday launched a blistering attack on Department of Communication and Marine officials for their handling of four controversial marina projects.

THE explosion of one-off houses is costing taxpayers millions of euros each year, according to an evaluation carried out by the Green Party.

EIRCOM’S controversial monopoly on fixed line charges will be effectively brought to an end within the next month.