The Central Bank could impose €10m worth of fines on each bank guilty of ripping off 20,000 victims of the tracker mortgage scandal if they fail to immediately address what happened.

There is “no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow” if Ireland sides with the European Commission and demands that Apple hands over €13.6bn in unpaid taxes, because other EU nations will be entitled to “go after” the fund.

After just two years, UTV Ireland has broadcast for the last time.

The latest listenership figures make happy reading for RTÉ Radio 1 with all but one of its flagship shows making significant audience gains.

Almost two years after he joined Red FM, Neil Prendeville has now recovered his crown as the Cork’s most listened-to mid-morning presenter in Cork from his former employer 96FM.

Chris Donoghue co-presents Newstalk Breakfast from 7am to 10am. He is an ambassador for First Fortnight, a charity aimed at challenging mental health stigma, and will speak at Proclamation, a music and talk event on New Year’s Day in Christ Church Cathedral, as part of First Fortnight festival in association with NYF Dublin. NYF Dublin’s three-day citywide festival spans the new year period from today until January 1. See www.NYFDublin.com 

Figures make happy reading for RTÉ Radio 1 as veteran presenters increase listenership by 77,000

Complaints against a “vulgar” poster campaign by Newstalk has been upheld by the advertising standards watchdog.

Women are pulling in the listeners on RTÉ Radio 1, 2FM is snapping at the heels of main rival Today FM, and Newstalk’s Pat Kenny has lost 8,000 listeners since last April.

MAURICE SEEZER is a songwriter, film music composer and founding committee member of the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival.

RTÉ has once again seen significant falls in year-on-year audience figures, with tens of thousands of listeners tuning out in comparison to 12 months ago.

JOHN P Quinlan is from Macroom, and founded the Vangard Gallery in Cork in 1991. He is in the midst of a nine-month stint as guest curator at Triskel in Cork.

The latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures show RTÉ Radio 1 has suffered a significant loss with a number of its main shows losing 20,000 or more listeners over the last 12 months.

WOMEN, eh? Can’t give them too much political power, can’t win elections without them.

A Government minister has launched an attack against broadcasting watchdogs over their "chilling" rulings regarding marriage equality.

A complaint of imbalance about a same-sex marriage discussion presented on RTÉ radio by comedian Brendan O’Carroll has been rejected by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has rejected suggestions that recent rulings “stifled” debate on extending marriage rights to gay people.

LEO Varadkar is thinking about a same-sex marriage with Fianna Fáil — trouble is, they are just not that into him.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has partially upheld a complaint against Newstalk in relation to a broadcast about Dublin’s Gay Pride parade which referenced same-sex marriage.

RTÉ Radio 1 has suffered a significant fall in listenership to a number of its top shows over the last year, according to the latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures published yesterday.

THE women victims of Republican violence seem to haunt Gerry Adams the most. Unlike murdered mother-of- 10, Jean McConville, rape survivor Maíria Cahill cannot be tossed into a shallow grave and forgotten about.

Pressure is mounting on the Sinn Féin leader to reveal whether sex offenders expelled by the IRA were subsequently moved to the Republic.

More radio listeners are moving the dial to Newstalk to follow broadcaster Pat Kenny, according to the latest JNLR figures.

The battle of the airwaves between Pat Kenny and Seán O’Rourke produced no real winners or losers in the red-hot competition for mid-morning radio audiences, according to the latest JNLR figures.

Pat Kenny is now being followed by an audience of 78,000, a fraction of what his listenership figures were on his RTÉ morning show, and far less than the 334,000 now enjoyed by his replacement, Sean O’Rourke.

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.

RTÉ has it all to do this morning to stop listeners twiddling their radio dials towards rival station Newstalk.

If women can be so easily shut out of a national debate on an issue like abortion, what chance do they have of being heard on traditional ‘men’s issues’ like the economy? Shaun Connolly says it’s time for change

If I imagined my work was not my life, I could not do what I do.

Newstalk presenter Chris Donoghue battled cancer at 23, and the death of his mother when he was just 14, he tells Jonathan deBurca Butler

Ivan Yates yesterday confirmed to listeners that Apr 6 will be his final Newstalk breakfast radio show.

Broadcaster and former minister Ivan Yates has confirmed he is to leave Newstalk "to focus on his financial issues".

Newstalk, Today FM and RTÉ’s Marian Finucane and Liveline are the big radio winners with new figures showing significant listenership gains.

THE former chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland has resigned in dramatic fashion from his position on the board of international aid agency GOAL following strong differences of opinion with the chief executive, John O’Shea.

RTÉ radio has suffered a major setback in the latest JNLR listenership figures, which show major losses for its programmes to the benefit of Today FM and Newstalk.

MORE than 1.8 million people listen to RTÉ Radio every week with 19 of the 20 most popular programmes on the airwaves now broadcast by the nation’s top station, figures from the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) have revealed.

Fianna Fáil has apologised to TV3 for suggesting the station capitulated to demands from Fine Gael not to refer to the issue of Enda Kenny's teachers pension during an interview last weekend.

FINE GAEL was forced to deny it censored a radio station interview with Enda Kenny as he came under criticism for “running away from scrutiny” over his pension from his previous career as a teacher.