BETWEEN a surprise wedding proposal and a heated debate on its attitude towards women, this year’s Rose of Tralee Festival was anything but dull.

Off the hook

The subject which creates the biggest generational divide among ordinary, decent Irishmen isn’t what many people might think. Forget about the Catholic Church, contraception, abortion, and politics. Those weighty issues are for the newspapers and television. Normal men stay well clear of that type of chat.

Top BBC executives denied ever having heard about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes despite Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman’s claim they were “common gossip”.

Top BBC executives denied ever having heard about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes despite Newsnight host Jeremy Paxman’s claim they were “common gossip”.

Britain’s BBC must undergo a radical overhaul in the wake of “shoddy” journalism which led to the resignation of its chief or its future will be in doubt, the head of the state-funded broadcaster’s governing body said yesterday.

He’s normally grilling politicians on the top news stories of the day.

Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan once told Jeremy Paxman how to access voicemail messages, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

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Describing the apology offered by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for Britain’s role in the Irish potato famine as a complete exercise in moral vacuousness suggests that BBC journalist/presenter Jeremy Paxman is ignorant of the difference between the failure of the potato crop and the Irish Famine.

The Conservative Party was today accused of planning to decimate the North's economy just when it was beginning to recover from the global recession.

Singer Estelle has blasted BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman for treating British rapper Dizzee Rascal like an "idiot" during a recent TV debate.

Flagship BBC news programmes such as Newsnight are set to be blacked out because of a strike by thousands of journalists and technicians in protest at job losses, it was learned today.

TONY Blair’s recent TV interview with Jeremy Paxman revealed much about the basis of US-UK policy and why the vast majority of people throughout the world (including many of the citizens of these countries) are totally opposed to war in Iraq.

TV inquisitor Jeremy Paxman has confessed he regularly goes over the top when quizzing politicians.