Since the election was called, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has pounded two distinct, peculiar routes, writes Jimmy Woulfe

We've had some major RTÉ bloopers over the years from Aengus Mac Grianna getting caught fixing his make-up live on air to Caitriona Perry almost being hit with a lighting tree, but we may have found the biggest scandal yet.

The current appetite for “edgy and groundbreaking journalism” led RTÉ to “devour good editorial practice” when it screened the Prime Time documentary about Fr Kevin Reynolds, one of its main news anchors has said.

On last night's Six One News, Brian Dobson made a bit of an uncharacteristic blunder just as the show went live. Poor Dobbo...

Brian Dobson’s interview with Bill Clinton last week, on the Six One news, was awe-inspiring.

Death and taxes. Outdated old certainties.

With so many experts pressing hard to take the honours it was always going to take seamless confidence to win the title “Iron Man 2012”.

THE letter that would ultimately end Bertie Ahern’s career was sent on Oct 15, 2004.

ENDA took me by surprise.

YESTERDAY morning Brian Lenihan accused Green Party Senator Dan Boyle of defaming him by inferring a 2009 phone call betrayed something less than zeal in Mr Lenihan’s pursuit of rogue bankers.

I FOUND Catherine Shanahan’s articles on the HSE extremely balanced and informative (June 10-12).

Dan Buckley asks whether Ryan Tubridy can rekindle that Gaybo attraction.

TO whom it concerns, Ryan Tubridy has been chosen as the new host of the world’s longest running live TV chat slot, The Late Late Show.

IT’S day 870 in Bertie’s Big Bother house.

THE tribunal was back as the most popular show in Dublin this week. But this time it was not as a drama but as pure farce.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was not impoverished, but not wealthy, when he was given a sum of £16,500 by a group of businessmen in 1994 despite already having savings of up to £70,000.

BERTIE AHERN had lost the public.

WITHOUT warning Stupor Tuesday suddenly threw the Government onto a non-emergency footing as 24 hours passed without a single significant sleaze allegation exploding at the Taoiseach’s feet.

One of the men who gave money to Bertie Ahern in 1994 has told the Mahon Tribunal he had only met Mr Ahern four or five times before he loaned him the cash.

IN September 2006 An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern went on RTÉ and described NCB stockbroker Padraic O’Connor as among his long-standing friends.

HAVING been reduced to tears by the Taoiseach’s famous interview with Brian Dobson on RTÉ news last year, I pity Bertie Ahern having to exist on a mere €310,000 annual salary (plus expenses, driver, jet, make-up, etc) which he has been forced to accept.

Distortion ... may have had very little impact on voters on this occasion, but such behaviour does pose a fundamental threat to democracy, because any leader who seeks to lead by misleading is not fit to lead.

‘Applied to Bertie’s house, “orchestrated” suggests that a bunch of disparate media personalities in constant mutual competition and employed by rival media outlets, got together under the direction of one conductor to damage the Taoiseach.’

The following is the full transcript of the interview Taoiseach Bertie Ahern gave to RTÉ news.

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.

HAVE the powers-that-be in RTÉ gone over the edge? Will we be accused of living in Utopia