The latest listenership figures make happy reading for RTÉ Radio 1 with all but one of its flagship shows making significant audience gains.

RTÉ has refused to say who will fill the slot left vacant on 2FM after Ryan Tubridy rejoins Radio 1 to present a new morning programme.

RTÉ has bowed to mounting public pressure and will retain a longwave radio service until 2017.

Ray D’Arcy will present a new show on RTÉ Radio One from February, having left Today FM after a 15-year spell.

Popular DJ Ray D’Arcy is to leave Today FM.

An American defence company claims it is on the verge of launching a new atomic age with a truck-sized fusion reactor that could be tested in less than a year.

Lockheed Martin says it has made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.

RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke has delivered rival Pat Kenny at Newstalk a pre-budget wallop by landing Minister for Finance Michael Noonan for the traditional post-budget phone-in next Wednesday.

REPORTS that China is poised to invest as much as $10 billion in Zimbabwe are very disturbing, but unfortunately they come as no surprise.