When I was a teenager, most of my musical tastes were different from those of my parents, but there was one act we all loved. That was Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy.

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RTÉ political correspondent David Davin-Power was spared a fine and a speeding conviction yesterday after he donated €150 to charity.

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.

Congratulations to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, which today celebrates 25 years on the air. It is a great achievement for any radio show to last that long, but in this case it is a phenomenal triumph because it has established itself as an important and vibrant source of news for a great many people.

WHEN the Green Party asked me to serve as a discount X Factor judge at its party conference this weekend, I didn’t know whether to be flattered or insulted.

On last Thurdsay’s Six One News, we heard RTÉ’s director-general Cathal Goan talking about making large savings.

On last Thurdsay’s Six One News, we heard RTÉ’s director-general Cathal Goan talking about making large savings.

MY abiding memory of the reportage of the Fianna Fáil árd fheis will be of the 9pm RTÉ News on Saturday (February 28). There was an acutely embarrassed David Davin-Power boxed in, jostled, squeezed and almost smothered by a family-photo array of FF local election candidates. Elderly, suited, male — and very much past it. All leering at the camera. The reassembled cast of the iconic horror movie Night of the Living Dead.

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