It’s an unlikely pairing, I know, but my mind has been drifting between former president Mary McAleese and former footballer Jamie Carragher.

A 71-year-old man known as Frank was interviewed onRTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland recently. He was due to enter emergency accommodation the following week because his landlord was selling the flat in which he lived.

One of the two daughters of a Cork man sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for sexually abusing them over a number of years has told RTÉ Radio One's Today with Sean O'Rourke programme that she still loves her father.

A Cork man whose wife and daughter were killed in a road crash has expressed his disappointment that a new law regarding unaccompanied learner drivers has not come into force.

Former Ireland Rugby player, Joy Neville, will become one of the first two women to referee a men’s international match later this month.

We shouldn’t rule out the prospect of Fianna Fáil returning to power just as the economy really picks up, writes Alison O’Connor.

Reading between the lines President Higgins is actively considering running again, writes Alison O’Connor

RTÉ's Bryan Dobson is reportedly leaving the Six One news, writes Ciara Phelan.

When I was coming out of Tullamore yesterday, I ran into a few Dublin supporters. The disappointment and frustration was visible on their faces.

Thanks to events across the Atlantic this autumn, “normalising” will go down as one of the words of the year. The man who promoted it, New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick, deserves praise for providing an essential tool in describing the GUBU US Presidential election.

In the space of a short few months we have had the double blow of Trump and Brexit, writes Alison O’Connor

Trevor O’Neill was murdered, shot when he was doing something that an ordinary father would do, writes Alison O’Connor

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It’s easy to forget how important St Etienne were to the Britpop era, writes Ed Power.

Ger Cunningham confirmed he will continue as Dublin hurling manager into 2016.

Going blind suddenly is not as uncommon as we think. But how do people cope, asks Rita de Brún.

I feel defiled having listened to the graphic and disturbing detail in the murder trial of Graham Dwyer, writes Alison O’Connor.

My advice is....don’t take no for an answer, says Seán O’Rourke.

Ray D’Arcy will present a new show on RTÉ Radio One from February, having left Today FM after a 15-year spell.

THERE is much that we tip toe around when discussing the issue of rape; much that’s left unsaid because it risks offending those who have already been so gravely offended by a rapist.

"Let’s have some new clichés," film producer Samuel Goldwyn once demanded.

The new optimism bouncing around is great, but also scary. There’s the fear that it will disappear again, and the contradictory concern that it will take off like a rocket. We all know how that story ends.

Broadcaster Pat Kenny is to make his television comeback on the country's new station UTV Ireland next year.

I’VE surprised myself by feeling a little sorry for former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely this week.

After 43 years behind the microphone one of the most identifiable voices in Irish news has signed off from RTÉ.

Former Radio One disc jockey Dave Lee Travis has told his trial he is "astonished" at sex offence allegations against him and told jurors he is a "normal, decent human being".

DJ Dave Lee Travis indecently assaulted a 19-year-old woman during a recording of Top Of The Pops, a court has heard.

Chris Martin and Bono performed on piano together to help raise money for charity.

Lily Allen's Twitter spat with Azealia Banks motivated her to write music again

One of RTÉ Radio’s most popular presenters is expected to talk on air today about the illness that kept him off the airwaves for more than six months.

THE talk was of tears and trauma at RTÉ over Pat Kenny’s departure for Newstalk, but the most memorable reaction he got was: “Thank you for leaving.”

Facing more music.

RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke has delivered rival Pat Kenny at Newstalk a pre-budget wallop by landing Minister for Finance Michael Noonan for the traditional post-budget phone-in next Wednesday.

In the UK, a former Radio One DJ is believed to have been arrested over historical sex offences.

Perched in your drab little cubicle on a grey Monday morning, contemplating the abject misery of enduring yet another week among the drones, it’s tempting to daydream, just for a moment, of how good it might feel to work somewhere else.

The defection of Pat Kenny to Newstalk is a serious blow to RTÉ but it isn’t the only challenge that director general Noel Curran faces, with falling ad revenues and the spotlight on its current affairs output, writes Kyran FitzGerald

Barely had the shock of Pat Kenny’s departure from Montrose registered in the national consciousness before the bets were on.

RTÉ’s John Murray will not be returning to the station until at least the autumn but bosses insist he is recovering from the illness which kept him off air for the past eight weeks.

* Judge Nicole Kidman finished off a flawless Cannes wardrobe with a regal custom-made Giorgio Armani dress, in white silk with a plunging neck and crystal bow — pure Hollywood fashion royalty. And just how does that hair stay up?

British police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal have made a further arrest and Sky News sources have said it is former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis.