Tributes have poured in for Paddy O’Keeffe, chairman of the Agriculture Trust and former Irish Farmers Journal editor, who died peacefully at his home in Ballyhooley, Co Cork.

RTE chair Tom Savage needs to “set the record straight” about his PR company’s clients, a Labour senator has said, as the fallout from the Mission to Prey programme continues.

Heads could roll as Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte confronts the board of the RTÉ Authority tomorrow over the Prime Time Investigates programme Mission To Prey.

The RTÉ Authority was yesterday fined €200,000 by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over serious breaches of the Broadcasting Act.

The managing director of PR firm, The Communications Clinic, Anton Savage yesterday expressed his satisfaction with the firm’s “steady growth”.

BASKETBALL Ireland Bernard O’Byrne secretary general hit out at RTÉ’s coverage of the sport

THE results of two reports into the controversial RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds are due to be considered by the RTÉ Authority next week.

THE head of RTÉ has pledged to restore the “fundamental bond” of public trust in the state broadcaster in the wake of the Fr Kevin Reynolds libel controversy.

SEAN GALLAGHER’S campaign team will lodge an official complaint “this week” with both the RTÉ Authority and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over the “fake tweet” which infamously prompted a collapse in his support base in the last week of the presidential election.

PR firm the Communications Clinic – which grew out of the management exodus from Carr Communications in early 2008 – generated profits of just over €150,000 last year, accounts lodged with the Companies Office state.

ONCE again there are calls from some quarters for RTÉ to discontinue relaying the Angelus bells over the airwaves.

IRELAND’S favourite alarm call Morning Ireland yesterday stood with the great shows in the history of Irish broadcasting as it celebrated 25 years on air.

Tom Savage has been appointed to lead an interim RTÉ Authority for the next six months, it emerged today.

RTÉ is to halt documentaries relying on anonymous sources after an internal probe criticised a programme that claimed a top politician took cocaine.

I WISH to express alarm at RTÉ’s increasing propensity to dumb down real political debate and allow public service broadcasting become an arm of Government.

JUSTICE Minister Brian Lenihan has ruled out asking the new Garda chief to investigate allegations a government minister was a regular cocaine user because he said there was no credible evidence to support the claims.

THE RTÉ Authority yesterday heard the most senior executive in television deliver a “frank assessment” of the checks carried out on the controversial High Society series.

RTÉ is to get a €14m windfall from licence fee payers, it emerged today.

EBS Building Society has today appointed two new non-executive directors to its board of directors, Pat McCann and Liam Mulvihill.

Liam Mulvihill has today announced his retirement as director general of the GAA, a position he has held for the past 28 years.

RTÉ has assured advertisers it can fight off growing competition, as listenership figures show further slides in the popularity of key radio programmes.

A TV licence fee may be slapped on people watching RTÉ via their laptops and computers under new broadcasting laws unveiled last night.

People may be forced to pay a TV licence fee for watching RTE on their laptops and computers, it emerged tonight.

The Government has published details of new legislation that could see major changes taking place in the broadcast sector.

Public relations guru Mary Finan was today appointed by the Government as chairperson of the RTE Authority.

ANY chance that Fintan Drury’s honourable resignation as chairman of the RTÉ Authority will set an example for Government ministers, senior civil servants and other officials?

PLATINUM One, the sports management business run by former RTÉ authority chairman Fintan Drury, has snapped up the sponsorship company owned by former Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings.

The chairman of the RTE Authority has resigned due to a potential conflict of interest over his role as an advisor to the Ryder Cup and the European Tour.

TIARNAN O'MAHONEY walked away from Anglo Irish Bank with a near €4 million pay-off.

SHE forged a path on the National Roads Authority, broke through the clouds over Aer Lingus and is now battling stormy seas with Irish Ferries. There seems no terrain Patricia King can’t navigate.

COUNCILLORS in North Dublin have registered their protest against the planned super prison by voting to designate the land as an area of architectural conservation.

RTE’s Prime Time programme tonight said it rejected Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s comments that its report on the Mountjoy Jail relocation site was grossly misleading and insisted that it stood over the accuracy and fairness of the coverage.

The Minister for Justice is to write to every member of the RTÉ Authority to complain about Tuesday's edition of Prime Time.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has launched a scathing attack on a television documentary about the Government's purchase of a site for a new 'super-prison' in Dublin.

NOBODY would deny the right of businesses to lobby politicians in order to protect their interests.

IF you were Eddie Hobbs, presenter of the Rip Off Republic series on RTÉ, wouldn’t you just love to have a Minister of State attack you, especially with a threadbare attack like that launched by Tim O’Malley this week.

WITH reference to the complaints to the RTÉ Authority about Eddie Hobbs’ TV programme, Rip-off Ireland, I think they are largely unfounded and seem to fly in the face of everything I thought the PDs stood for.

MINISTERS were last night accused of blatant “RTÉ-bashing” over attacks on the broadcaster’s probe into consumer rip-offs.

THE tetchy reaction of Progressive Democrat Junior Minister Tim O’Malley to over-pricing exposed by the popular TV show Rip Off Republic suggests that financial guru Eddie Hobbs has scored a palpable hit.

Harry McGee, Political Editor, and Karl Hanlon

ANGLO IRISH BANK director Paddy Wright has bumped up his stake in the bank.

RTÉ pulled in more than €165 million from licence fees last year, it emerged yesterday as the Government prepares a response to European Union charges of a lack of financial transparency surrounding the public service broadcaster.

Morning Ireland, RTÉ’s flagship current affairs show, is celebrating it 20th anniversary. Political Editor Harry McGee, who worked on the programme, reports: