Ireland were jaggy, a little confused structurally on both sides of the ball and under pressure in the scrum/maul, but they showed up to work in the hard moments in both halves and came out with a win, writes Tom Savage.

As shakedown games go, this one ended up being a little more shaky than Ireland might have expected. The final score said 19-12 to Ireland but that didn’t really tell the story of the game so much as gesture vaguely in the direction of the side that took their chances with more efficiency, writes Tom Savage.

Results over the weekend ended Munster’s slim chances of qualifying before a turnstile opened in Thomond Park on Sunday, writes Tom Savage.

Nobody outside of politics talks about policies. It’s an insider term. It makes viewers switch off, writes Terry Prone

No one knows why good teams go bad, but they do. The Irish rugby team, for example, who, within the space of a year went from being very good to being really not very good at all.

Noel Whelan was much, much more than a lawyer and columnist.He was a powerful force for good on many fronts. And a vital part of the peace process in the North, writes Terry Prone.

Where it suited the cause and where it suited himself, Noel Whelan would make public his involvement in it. Why not?

With another new coaching ticket in place for next season, patience has become a common theme of conversation amongst Munster fans- whether it's showing it or running out of it. We look at the terrace temperature of two well-versed followers.

Fr Michael Cleary didn’t have to cope with loneliness or celibacy, having fathered a family, writes Terry Prone

Keith Earls remains sidelined with a hamstring injury.

The Georgia Dome, the stadium in Atlanta that hosted 1996 Olympic events and which was the venue for two Super Bowls, has been reduced to rubble in an implosion.

Tributes have been paid to Tom Savage, former chairman of the RTÉ Authority, who died yesterday following a short illness at the age of 76.

Profits at the public relations agency led by Terry Prone and her son Today FM presenter Anton Savage last year increased by more than €100,000.

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Moya Doherty, the co-creator of Riverdance, has been appointed the new chair of the RTÉ board.

A News of the World reporter was told by a “tyrant” boss to write a story about one of James Bulger’s killers from an anonymous tipster, a court heard today.

RTÉ’s economic outlook remains uncertain, despite it returning to profit for the first time in six years.

The recent profit surge at the PR firm led by broadcaster Anton Savage slowed last year as the firm re-invested in the business.

RTE has confirmed it was €65.2m in the red last year following a major restructuring of the company.

RTÉ has blamed measures introduced by the Government in the 2010 budget for its deteriorating financial position after the state broadcaster reported a net deficit of almost €16.8m last year.

RTÉ senior management has warned that the broadcaster faces continuing financial challenges in the coming years as it struggles to grow revenue from advertising and licence fees.

Comments by Martin Gordon (Irish Examiner, June 4) about Tom Savage, chairman of the RTÉ Authority, are misguided on several grounds.

What game was RTE playing at during the live showing of the 50th anniversary of the Late Late Show on Friday last?

In Fergus Finlay’s opinion, (May 28) RTÉ is in the “safe hands of honest and skilled Tom Savage”.

ON May 23, I was told by an impeccable source it was their understanding that Tom Savage and the Communications Clinic had represented Fr Kevin Reynolds in the run up to the broadcast of the RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme, ‘Mission to Prey’.

FIANNA Fáil believes in public service broadcasting.

RTE chair Tom Savage needs to “set the record straight” about his PR company’s clients, a Labour senator has said, as the fallout from the Mission to Prey programme continues.

A public relations company run by RTÉ chairman Tom Savage said he had no knowledge of the work it did for the Irish Missionary Union in advance of the infamous Prime Time Investigates programme.

SINCE we’re all going to vote on Thursday (I hope), this is my last chance to write about the referendum. Before I do, I can’t resist saying something about the Tom Savage conspiracy.

Further calls have been made on RTÉ chairman Tom Savage and director general Noel Curran to resign as a result of the Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ chairman Tom Savage has insisted only Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte can force him to step down over the 'Prime Time Investigates' scandal.

RTE’s director general has insisted there will be no repeat of the defamation scandal surrounding Father Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ bosses faced a sustained attack from TDs and senators of all political parties yesterday amid the continuing fallout of the Prime Time Investigates programme which seriously libelled Fr Kevin Reynolds.

The chairman of RTÉ has said he still finds it inexplicable that the hugely damaging 'Mission to Prey' programme in which Father Kevin Reynolds was defamed was allowed to air.

THE botched handling of Prime Time Investigates programme which libelled Fr Kevin Reynolds could provide the ingredients for a Shakespearean tragi-comedy were its fallout not so serious.

A HEAVY price has been paid by Aoife Kavanagh.

Chairman of the RTÉ board Tom Savage has said that the board first discussed the programme which resulted in the libelling of Fr Kevin Reynolds in September of last year.

RTÉ is to submit quarterly reports to Pat Rabbitte, the communications minister, on an overhaul of its standards in reporting.

The board of RTÉ has been given one week to file a report on all steps it is taking to prevent a repeat of the defamatory 'Mission to Prey' programme.

The Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has said he is satisfied that the board of RTE fully appreciates the seriousness of the libeling of Fr Kevin Reynolds.

The Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte is meeting the board of RTE this morning to discuss the BAI report into the libeling of Fr Kevin Reynolds.

The RTÉ board is expected to reject criticism by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland that it failed to waive legal privilege for an inquiry into the Prime Time Investigates programme at a special meeting with Pat Rabbitte, the communications minister, today.

Heads could roll as Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte confronts the board of the RTÉ Authority tomorrow over the Prime Time Investigates programme Mission To Prey.