Dustin the Turkey tweeted the Poultry Party’s plan to fix Ireland on February 21.

By now we’ve all had a few days to take in the news.

As the Bewleys/Moran hotel chain offers to fully refund all pre-paid rooms booked for the Garth Brooks concert, there have been calls for Ticketmaster to refund fans’ booking fees as well as the ticket price.

They may be under-represented on the airwaves here, but Irish female broadcasters have been flying the flag abroad for years. Dave Kenny looks at the women who have made an international impact

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

It’s great being back on stage in the panto, although the dance routines are a bit hard on the talons.

Legal action has not diluted Anglo: The Musical’s fierce caricatures of the players in our economic crash, says Padraic Killeen

It might considered too painful a subject for parody by some folk but the country’s baddest of bad banks is set to get a new lease of life with Anglo — The Musical.

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.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness and independent David Norris struggled to beat ‘Inanimate carbon rod’ in a popular online poll of potential presidential candidates recently.

THE perceived lack of relevance of the presidency has been borne out in an online poll that put “inanimate carbon rod” as third in the race for the Áras.

RTÉ is hoping that Ireland’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be no turkey.

WRITERS, musicians and rebellious folk make up the latest list of the top 10 Dubliners of all time.

YOUR report headlined ‘Ahern fair game, but not Travellers, according to BCC’ (July 3) seems to suggest that a fine line was walked by producers of RTÉ’s Once A Week Show when determining whether or not “tinker” and “knick-knack” are reasonable terms to be broadcast on TV programmes aimed at children.

YOU can call Bertie Ahern a rat and a liar, but derogatory terms about the Travelling community are out of bounds — according to the latest batch of decisions from the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

Not music to Irish ears

A puppet will represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision song contest, TV viewers decided last night.

Dustin The Turkey has tonight been chosen by a public vote to represent Ireland in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Serbia in May.

Ireland’s six Eurosong finalists are to be unveiled tonight on RTE’s Late Late Show.

A PUPPET could represent Ireland in this year’s Eurosong, it emerged yesterday.

A puppet could represent Ireland in this year’s Eurosong, it emerged today.

JOE DOLAN will always be remembered as a phenomenal entertainer who managed to preserve his decree “There’s no show like a Joe show” throughout the decades.

Junior Minister for Education Sean Haughey today branded as shocking that three-quarters of post-primary pupils are not wearing seatbelts on school buses.

GET your skates on to Dublin’s magnificent winter wonderland, which features one of Europe’s largest outdoor-covered ice rinks.

The hundreds of teams who applied for a place on the starting line at St Patrick’s Hill in Cork were whittled down to 59 hopefuls from 19 counties and one entry from England.

CORK will host the world’s steepest soapbox race this Sunday before an estimated audience of 30,000.

VETERAN broadcaster Gay Byrne returns to RTÉ screens in late May — but for one night only.

RTÉ's flagship children programme is set to go digital with its own channel on the ntl Electronic Programme Guide (EPG).

DUSTIN the Turkey has scooped the Celebrity Dublin Project of the Decade at the 2003 Guinness Living Dublin Awards.

THE public has been given the chance to give 10,000 to the best Dublin community project of the past 10 years by voting in the Guinness Living Dublin Awards.

FRANCIS BOYLAN relishes the prospect of curbing the madder antics of Dustin the Turkey.

IT’S the silly season. Eddie and the lads are in Lanzarote, the AIL is on its festive break and everyone is taking the opportunity to do their reviews of the year.