RTÉ are selling the field, and the Bull won't stand for it.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Being a late bloomer in his writing hasn’t prevented the rapid progress of UCC’s John Fitzgerald, writes Colette Sheridan.

YouTube must be the mother of all rabbit holes when it comes to the internet.

THE dark arts of politics came to the fore as Labour leader Eamon Gilmore effectively took Joan Burton hostage as his human shield.

RTE News: Six One co-anchor Sharon Ní Bheoláin, believes in giving back.

Highlights includethe return of Anne Doyle, and Simon Reeve's new show on pilgrimages

Great Odin's Raven, this looks like it might be actual fun.

"Go shorty, it's your birthday" "Hip hop hippy the hippy, the hippy to the hip hip hop you don't stop" and more.

ANNE Doyle is guest host for the Lighthouse Keepers’ Global Gathering, a three-day programme of lectures, fireworks and music, which kicks off today at Hook Lighthouse in Co Wexford. The former RTÉ newsreader has been enchanted with lighthouses since childhood.

It was the kind of gathering Colm Murray would have loved.

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

Paddy Power have installed Jennifer Maguire as their 5/1 favourite to replace Dermot Whelan as the Republic of Telly’s main presenter.

Dancer and musician Michael Flatley, author Colm Tóibín, and tenor Michael Londra have been confirmed as part of Irish celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s visit.

Anne Doyle, 61, is thriving on all fronts since she retired as news reader from RTÉ at the end of 2011. Between volunteering as an ambassador for her native county, Wexford, writing short stories and travelling — last stop Jamaica — life has been “surprisingly easy”. She had a flu six months ago. “It was very sapping, and when I recovered I found I was a bit aimless and felt I had to get some structure on my day. But it must have been the flu, because it passed,” says Anne, whose long-term partner is former restaurant owner, Dan McGrattan.

Irish people are apparently looking to the internet to answer to that age-old question "What is love?".

Even if Euro 2012 left us with little save a reputation for ceaseless singing, we still couldn’t stop googling the tournament.

Former news reader Anne Doyle yesterday outlined the “dark times” in her life as she lent her support to a new CD launched in aid of Aware.

As a retired public servant, I find it troubling that RTÉ, who in these difficult times cover such topics as unemployment and emigration in their programming, yet have no difficulty in retaining the same broadcasters for decades — some are now in their 70s and predominantly male.

Iconic RTÉ reporter Charlie Bird has announced his retirement after 38 years on the airwaves — but insists he wants “new challenges” in an apparent push for bids from rival stations.

TV3’s director of programmes, Ben Frow, is taking Ireland’s much-loved newsreader Anne Doyle out to lunch next week to see if she wants to work with RTÉ’s rival network.

RTÉ employees who have been accepted on to the latest round of early retirement and voluntary redundancy packages at the station are leaving on a phased basis.

Richard Fitzpatrick asks Irish celebrities to name who adorned their walls as teens

ANNE DOYLE signed off on her career as a newsreader on Christmas night and RTÉ chiefs believe it may turn out to be the most watched bulletin of the year.

TV news anchorwoman Anne Doyle’s decision to take redundancy from RTÉ has provoked much in the way of public comment.

ONE of the country’s best-loved newsreaders, Anne Doyle, has revealed she decided to retire because she simply felt her time was up in front of the RTÉ cameras.

AN RTÉ voluntary redundancy and early retirement scheme aimed at securing at least 70 job cuts received a large number of last-minute applications before a 5pm deadline yesterday.

2010 was a disastrous one for Taoiseach Brian Cowen, but he is far from alone, writes Shaun Connolly, Political Correspondent

THE exit of Jim McDaid was in keeping with his career, his public persona and his political path. It left a bitter taste.

BEEN there, done that, thought I should have been Taoiseach.

THE secret diary of George Lee aged 46-and-three-quarters continues to record milestones.

A PAIR of adventurers along with a rugby star and a solicitor — who uncovered evidence to free a man who had served 26 years in jail — are among the favourites to scoop the Cork Person of the Year award.

YOU’RE A Star TV show presenter Brian Ormond and his girlfriend, model Pippa O’Connor, will judge the Queen of Fashion competition at Killarney Races, on July 17.

HE IS the ‘Big Fella’ of Irish broadcasting — bearish, avuncular with a roguish grin and friendly patter — but we won’t be hearing quite so much from Derek Davis from now on.

Croke Park has refused to hold a Telethon charity event because it doesn’t suit its corporate image, it was claimed today.

SATURDAY may have been Ladies Day at this year’s Curragh racing festival but it was yesterday’s Budweiser Derby that drew the seriously stylish in their droves.

THE beleaguered Jurys Doyle Hotel board will take comfort from the Deloitte Hotel Benchmark survey, showing an improvement in bookings for hotel rooms in Dublin.

AND the headlines ...

BERTIE AHERN was behaving yesterday like he was top dog.

ALMOST three quarters of staff in RTÉ earn less than €49,000 a year, according to figures released yesterday.

GRÁINNE SEOIGE has been appointed anchor of Sky News’ new Irish service, it was announced yesterday.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has been named the Irish Tatler Woman of the Year.

JUDGEMENT day is nigh for this summer’s roses, but they’re not wilting under the strain. The judges hover everywhere, even when the girls make their way up the aisle at St John’s church during Sunday mass.