A mystery RTÉ presenter has joined stars Ryan Tubridy, Joe Duffy, and Ray D’Arcy in earning more than €300,000 a year from the station in the first salary figures revealed by the State broadcaster in three years.

Are you a soap fan? Fair City, maybe? Did you know it costs around €130,000 per hour for RTÉ to make it? 

The Director General of RTÉ has told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications that up to €60m of TV licence fees goes uncollected each year.

RTÉ has demanded that the Government and Revenue crack down on TV licence avoiders by imposing strict new measures to reform the “fundamentally unfit for purpose” system and ensure €60m a year in unpaid fees are received.

RTÉ boss Dee Forbes is 15 months into the job, and Ireland waits on for news of how she plans to tackle the challenges facing the country’s mainstream broadcaster. 

RTÉ is looking to cut 250 members of staff through voluntary redundancy.

Over 60 new shows and series have been been packed into RTÉ’s new autumn schedule and all the favourites are there too.

RTÉ’s top 10 highest-paid presenters earned almost €3m between them in 2015.

RTÉ has recorded a deficit of nearly €20m for 2016.

The head of RTÉ says the TV licence should be €15 higher than it currently is.

The boss of RTÉ has said funds raised from selling almost nine acres of its Montrose land to Cairn Homes for €107.5m will be invested in improving the public broadcaster’s services as well as reducing debt.

A new exhibition in Skibbereen is just the latest instalment in a long history of cultural links between West Cork and Cornwall, writes Robert Harris

Forget Shakespeare and “all the world’s a stage”. In Schull, the whole town is a flickering cinema screen.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned the squeeze on British households has begun as Brexit-fuelled inflation outstrips wage growth.

Tributes have been paid to Tom Savage, former chairman of the RTÉ Authority, who died yesterday following a short illness at the age of 76.

In a rapidly changing TV landscape, RTÉ’s only realistic options are to reduce its costs as a TV platform and increase the commercial income it earns as a producer, writes Roddy Flynn

WHEN Dee Forbes took on the role of director general of RTÉ last year it was evident she would bring not just international broadcasting experience to the job but also commercial nous.

“Adapt or die.” These were the words of RTÉ’s director general Dee Forbes yesterday. She was announcing the sell-off of nine acres of the state broadcaster’s land and the culling of up to 300 jobs.

The new director general of RTÉ has pledged to continue an overhaul at the broadcaster and said that projects involving 1916 centenary commemorations and the Olympics will mean a larger financial deficit this year.

The new director general of RTÉ has pledged to invest in and support investigative journalism as the state broadcaster strives to earn the nation’s trust in everything it does.

A garda, who entered a low-rise block of flats after seeing a partly-open window, had committed “a significant trespass” into a one-room studio where a man and his partner were asleep in bed, a judge ruled yesterday.

A civil servant in the Department of Justice has told a judge that gardaí who broke into his Dublin flat five years ago searched his belongings and said to him: “We are searching for bombs, bullets, and guns.”

The flag-waving and cheers of recent days provoked all the usual debates about 1916, confirming once again, as if it needed to be, that we all cling to our particular beliefs certain in the knowledge that our view is the correct one and that any other need not be countenanced.

RTÉ has appointed Dee Forbes as successor to outgoing director-general Noel Curran.

Ben Barnes has assembled an impressive cast for the Irish premiere of a play by Eugene O’Neill, writes Padraic Killeen

A man had to be buried in front of mourners at the third attempt, because his grave was too small.

A man had to be buried in front of mourners at the third attempt because his grave was dug too small.

A key Bank of England official has warned of the dangers of “lingering too long in the sun” with low interest rates in the latest sign that it is edging towards a hike.

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X Factor hopeful Melanie Masson tonight became the second contestant to leave the show after the judges’ vote went to deadlock again.

Newcastle United’s decision to agree a sponsorship deal with loan company Wonga has prompted an angry reaction in the North East.

Champions Celtic showed six changes for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Motherwell at Fir Park.

Thomas Rogne has replaced the injured Glenn Loovens at the heart of the Celtic defence for this afternoon's SPL clash with Motherwell at Fir Park.

A PAIR of silk bloomers which belonged to Queen Victoria sold for more than three times their original estimate yesterday.

CLOSE to 600 patients in need of life-saving cancer and dialysis treatment face no longer being ferried to and from treatment by ambulance due to cutbacks in patient transport services.

A MORE clinical Naomh Abán edged out Carrigaline after extra-time in the Cork PIFC second round at Ovens on Saturday.