Denyse Woods was born in Boston, but has been living in Cork for almost 30 years, and is based in Inniscarra.

Some of RTÉ Radio 1 and Newstalk’s flagship morning shows were the biggest losers in the latest radio listenership figures, as 2FM continues to go from strength to strength.

Greg Dowling is one half of Irish house music duo Fish Go Deep, as well as being a label owner and club promoter. 

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

Laura O’Mahony is from Glanmire, Co Cork, but currently lives in Ballycotton, with husband, Shane, and daughter, Polly. She is on tour with comedy group, Cccahoots. They play Whelan’s, in Dublin, tomorrow.

The Arts Council is urging people to share the joy of reading with children this Christmas, writes Marjorie Brennan. Here, some of the well-known people backing the ‘Story for their Stocking’ campaign select the books that captured their imagination as youngsters

John Kelly is an artist. His father is from Cork, and mother from Bristol. The family emigrated to Australia in 1965, the year of John’s birth. Kelly has lived in all three countries and for the past decade has resided in West Cork. This week, his exhibition, John Kelly: A Group Show, will open at Uillinn in Skibbereen.

We met up with Dublin-born Risteárd Cooper - one third of the Après Match crew - to find out what makes him tick. 

Cian Ó Cíobháin is originally from west Kerry, but has been living in Galway since his college days. This week, his electronic music show on Raidio na Gaeltachta, An Taobh Tuathail, is marking 17 years on air. It’s broadcast Monday to Friday at 10pm.

I was always a bit of a smart-arse.

There has been a trend developing in football, or soccer, or whatever you call it yourself, whereby multi-million pound players leaving big clubs for other big clubs tweet or Instagram or communicate in some other new-fangled way their gratitude to the fans and the institution they are leaving behind.

Father’s Day approaches, we ask well-known dads about what makes the relationship with their daughters special.

Paolo Tullio, one of the country’s best-known food and wine critics, has died after suffering ill health for a number of months following an illness of a number of months.

MAURICE SEEZER is a songwriter, film music composer and founding committee member of the Corona Fastnet Short Film 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.

The latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures show RTÉ Radio 1 has suffered a significant loss with a number of its main shows losing 20,000 or more listeners over the last 12 months.

Check out our guide to what to watch on TV tonight.

To find Marian Keyes eating the face off Marian Finucane on Twitter is like finding your budgie savaging your alsatian.

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.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

Your spoiler-free guide to what’s good on the box tonight.

Your daily, spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

RTÉ radio remains the dominant player on the Irish airwaves, with more than half of all adults tuning into the station every week.

BBC1 @ 10.20pm: Graham Norton continues his award-winning talk show, with guests Ricky Gervais, Ronnie Corbett and Juliette Binoche, plus music and chat from Irish pop star Imelda May.

Sean Moncrieff presents a new quiz show, Crossfire, on TV3 at 8pm tonight.

Graham Norton, the return of Sherlock and the Ronan O'Gara documentary feature among the highlights.

Pat Kenny is now being followed by an audience of 78,000, a fraction of what his listenership figures were on his RTÉ morning show, and far less than the 334,000 now enjoyed by his replacement, Sean O’Rourke.

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.

Japanese television is mad, Ted.

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.

WHEN I meet Henry McKean in The Humble Bean café on Aungier Street in Dublin he has the gait and face of a man who has just been through hell.

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

Almost 100,000 listeners have turned off Marian Finucane at the weekends in the last year, according to the latest figures from the Joint National Listenership Research.

BROADCASTER and journalist, Áine Lawlor, has been at the heart of Irish current affairs since 1994, but her story made headlines in 2011, when she took a break from presenting Morning Ireland for ‘medical reasons’.

Listeners to Sean Moncrieff's afternon show on Newstalk radio have been getting a bit arsey as the cheeky chappy encouraged his audience to tweet in suggestions for movies inspired by the rear end.

Newstalk, Today FM and RTÉ’s Marian Finucane and Liveline are the big radio winners with new figures showing significant listenership gains.

A SCANDALOUS sensation is set to rock Ireland’s political landscape next month, according to internationally renowned illusionist Keith Barry.

WHILE a garden designed by Diarmuid Gavin is out of many people’s price range, a piece of pottery painted by the celebrity gardener is one of many that have gone under the hammer to raise funds for meningitis research.

DESPERATE distraction, all this Fianna Fáil leadership stuff, isn’t it?

RADIO listeners are deserting many of the big name broadcasters in their droves with listenership figures showing worrying trends for the four national stations.

I AGREE with your columnist Seán Moncrieff (‘Our sorry excuse for political system’, August 10. However, when one considers what the Greens have brought upon our devastated country, with a miniscule vote, the parochialism of country TDs pales into insignificance.

IT WAS one of those seminal TV moments when you knew that nothing would ever be the same again.