Jack Downey began to feel unwell at the festival on August 2 at around 4.30pm.

Recent months have seen the passing of Gay Byrne, Marian Finucane and Larry Gogan. Keelin Shanley is due to be buried tomorrow after she passed away at the weekend.

RTÉ have paid tribute to the late Marian Finucane as the latest JNLR figures show the presenter gained 19,000 listeners to her in the three months before her passing.

His funeral Mass will take place in Templeogue in Dublin at 11am this morning, followed by private burial.

In the depths of Irish football’s winter of discontent, Niall Quinn allowed himself to briefly dream of a glorious summer.

That broadcaster Larry Gogan’s death was announced on the day his RTÉ colleague Marian Finucane was buried, and two months after his peer Gay Byrne died, invites inevitable if misplaced comparisons.

The Marian Finucane Show will today be a celebration of the late presenter’s career, RTÉ has announced.

A celebrity psychologist has said he regrets misleading people by using a fake PhD to lecture, provide counselling services, and appear on radio shows as a “doctor.”

RTÉ Radio One stands as Ireland’s most listened to station with a weekly reach of over one million people.

The mother of teenager Jack Downey who died after he took a substance at the Indiependence Festival in Co Cork in August is to participate in the Tipperary Ladies Mini Marathon in order to raise funds for the intensive care unit (ICU) where her son died.

In recent days, staff were told that the organisation could not continue as it is currently operating without a significant increase in state funding.

The 19-year-old from Clonmel, Co Tipperary became unwell while at the Indiependence festival earlier this month.

The latest radio listenership figures made good reading for RTÉ stalwart Marian Finucane, who is among those celebrating an increase in listeners in the latest JNLR results.

Frankie Ross is director of operations for next week’s Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Co Cork.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Marian Finucane was the big winner in the latest radio listenership figures with her total audience for the weekend rising by 75,000.

Seán O’Sullivan and his wife Tish Durcan left Ireland in July 2015 bound for their native USA.

Balancing the highs and lows of John Delaney's tenure as FAI CEO.

Accumulated profits at the media firm owned by one of Ireland’s most popular broadcasters, Marian Finucane last year increased to €1.128m.

The Minister for Health Simon Harris has said that re-tendering the contract for the National Children's Hospital was not an option.

The justice minister claims he wants to sit down with McCabe and discuss his legacy. It’s all a far cry from the government line just a few years ago, writes Michael Clifford.

RTE Radio continues to dominate with 11 shows with over a quarter of a million listeners each week.

The broadcasting watchdog has rejected a number of objections lodged against TV and radio debates ahead of May’s referendum on the Eighth Amendment - but upheld in part a complaint an interview in which the head of RTE was asked who she would like to kick in the testicles.

Holidays are for reading all those books you’ve been discussing with your friends for weeks, but haven’t actually read.

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.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the kind of evidence heard at the Disclosures Tribunal over the last week would have caused shock and outrage.

RTÉ has paid out in excess of €180,000 in damages and costs as a result of comments by solicitor Gerald Kean about garda whistleblowers Sgt Maurice McCabe and John Wilson in 2014.

The former chief executive of the Road Safety Authority (RSA) was told by the then Garda press officer, Superintendent David Taylor, that his phone could be monitored, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.

The Disclosures Tribunal was treated to a splash of celebrity yesterday, but the tidings brought further troubling detail of how An Garda Síochána operated at the highest level.

The former chief executive of the Road Safety Authority was told by the then Garda press officer Superintendent David Taylor that his phone could be monitored, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.

She's been sorting out Cork people for ages

Latest: Ireland has been "humiliated" by the EU, Nigel Farage said.

IN Timoleague, west Cork, where the famous 13th century abbey overlooks the sea, there may be seen, these evenings, one of the most extraordinary displays of coordination and swarm behaviour in nature, a murmuration of starlings, says Damien Enright.

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.

The First Lady of Song played two memorable concerts at the jazz festival in 1980, writes Des O’Driscoll

Fergus Finlay has never come across nationalism that seemed essentially to be based on snobbery. If there is one in the world, he thinks Catalan nationalism might qualify

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

RTÉ 2 FM were the big winners in the latest radio listenership figures with big gains for its peak weekday shows.

Government will be powerless to force RTÉ to publish the salary details of any presenter earning more than €100,000 if the publicly-funded State broadcaster refuses to do so.

WHY, OH why did The Guardian have to do it? Why did it have to resort to the type of clichéd hatchet-job it would shake its head at in a less lofty publication?

I’m pretty certain though that all the stuff about tight fiscal space will be upended on budget day, writes Fergus Finlay

Marlene Enright is from Bantry, Co Cork. She is music booker for The White Horse in Ballincollig, and is also a musician and songwriter. She is about to release her debut solo album, Placemats and Second Cuts, writes Des O’Driscoll.

Leo Varadkar has denied he has struck a formal agreement with leadership rival Simon Coveney but the two have had discussions around the future of the party.

Following weeks of upheaval with the departure of Anton Savage and news Al Porter is to join its ranks, Today FM’s latest JNLR listenership figures show a mixed bag.