Newstalk has suspended presenter George Hook amid the ongoing controversy surrounding his comments on rape last week.

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

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is an Irish language poet from Tralee, Co Kerry. She co-presents arts show Imeall with Tristan Rosenstock on TG4 on Thursdays.

CATHY JORDAN is from Scramogue, Co Roscommon, and is the youngest of seven children. She has played with Dervish for over 20 years, and will take to the stage tonight with the band at The Pav as part of the Cork Folk 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.

SEÁN MONCRIEFF has presented the afternoon show on Newstalk for over 10 years.

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.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange revealed he received death threats as he spoke out about his continued self-imprisonment at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

So this author is being interviewed by Seán Moncrieff, who interviews a lot of authors and causes me to buy a great many more books than I really should.

Listeners to a number of the country’s top radio stars have been turning off in their thousands, according to the latest Joint National Listenership Report (JNLR) published yesterday.

I HAVEN’T visited my father’s grave in a year.

YOU’VE heard of the Mammas and the Papas — well here’s something completely different.

I READ the diatribe against the Green Party by your columnist Seán Moncrieff (January 23) with a mixture of anger and incredulity.

SEAN MONCRIEFF (May 23) was really the ultimate in cynicism about politics and politicians.

SEÁN MONCRIEFF’S Last Word column (Irish Examiner, August 24) distorted the true teachings of Islam. I’m an Irish Muslim and I know that Islam is a tolerant yet principled faith.

IRISH comedian Dave Allen has died at the age of 68, his agent said yesterday.

YOUR columnist Sean Moncrieff showed a singular lack of understanding of the recent local and European elections in his column (Irish Examiner, June 15).

All the leading fancies stood their ground as a total of 25 horses were left at the second forfeit stage for the Vodafone Derby today.

WHILE visiting Ireland on business, I read Sean Moncrieff’s ‘The Last Word’ column (Irish Examiner, Jan 7) which happened mostly to be about Texas and in which he said that when it came to bigotry, the ‘average Texan’ was not unlike Osama Bin Laden.