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At one time, there were anything up to 1,500 of them, dotted around the country.

RTÉ has launched its new season schedule with an event at its headquarters stocked to the gills with razzmatazz and celebrity.

33 years ago, Kerry met Meath in Croke Park, with the greatest team of all running out of road and the Royals on the rise. An email conversation with Liam Hayes stirred some memories on Gaelic football and sportswriting, now and then

Eoghan Cormican looks at the contenders to succeed John Meyler as Cork senior hurling manager.

Ernest Hemingway once said courage is “grace under pressure”.

Whatever the turn of events against Tipperary, Laois will still fill a few seconds when the All-Ireland hurling championship comes to a halt next month and the TV montage used to sum it all up is assembled out in Montrose.

Here’s a thought. Eoin Morgan spent mere minutes at the crease against Australia before being bowled out for four runs on Tuesday and yet we’ve seen more of the England cricket captain on our TV screens since last weekend than we have any hurlers or footballers.

Nathalie O’Brien is praying her name will not be called out. Sat beside her dad, Fergus, and mam, Michelle, in the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, Nathalie is agonising at the thought of being declared the winner.

Ray D’Arcy can’t do without his morning jog – and now he’s on a mission to get his listeners running too. ‘Run With Ray’ comes to Cork on Monday, the first of five live radio shows the radio presenter is hosting across the country. Try it and you’ll be hooked, he tells

John Fogarty speaks to former RTÉ head of sport and managing director Glen Killane about the future of Gaelic games broadcasting

Nobody over-eggs anticipation like World Rugby. The draw for next year’s World Cup in Japan was made last May, a full 803 days before the start of the tournament.

More than €3m is being spent by RTÉ on security and other costs linked to the sale of nine acres of prime land on the Montrose campus.

Olive Esler, who handles the social media promotion for The Sunday Game was manic busy throughout yesterday afternoon.

Of all the days I have been with RTÉ, yesterday was definitely the toughest, writes Anthony Daly.

The lads from Sky, who landed on a mercy mission Thursday, reminded me why I’ll never go to a World Cup, writes Larry Ryan

The powerful hour-long TV documentary and studio discussion was the last instalmentin the national broadcaster’s mental health series.

I watched the Limerick-Galway game in the RTÉ Studio in Montrose yesterday afternoon, just after Michael Duignan and I had watched the Tipperary-Cork game live.

Rugby the people’s choice but what is the women’s game?

Ryle Nugent announced yesterday he will step down from his position as group head of RTÉ Sport for “new challenges”.

For years I spent so long trying to take down Kilkenny lads that I am now spending so much time alongside in TV studios, writes Anthony Daly.

Right then, all set for the weekend’s big one in Blighty?

So, sports fans are outraged that Jermaine Defoe is missing from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award shortlist? (According to click king Mr Google Analytics). Wait til they see this evening what the chainsaw gang in Montrose have done to the array of Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Moments in the 2000s, writes Tony Leen.

If they beat us to go to the World Cup, we’ll cry for six months, writes Enda McEvoy

You’ll remember the bottle of gin from Friday. The hipsterish Brooklyn Gin with the hand-cracked juniper berries and freshly cut citrus peels. The seal remains unbroken.

RTÉ staff holding out for better voluntary redundancy packages have been warned to take or leave the current deal on the table because there will be no better offers.

Shares in Cairn Homes rose over 1.5%, as the Dublin housebuilder increased sales and boosted margins. It indicated it was on course to sell significantly more homes, amid the huge demand for housing.

Dublin are rightly favourites, but Tyrone are 5/2 or slightly better on some markets yesterday. That’s meaty, says Colm Cooper

It’s only day two in Galway and already the temperatures and the celebrity count are rising as fast as wallets are emptying.

It's an odity in this country that we insist on universal entitlements but bristle at universal charges, writes Gerard Howlin

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Yesterday was tough, in more ways than one. I wasn’t in Thurles because I watched the game from the RTÉ studios in Montrose. It felt weird but, in another way, it was easier. 

The boss of RTÉ has said funds raised from selling almost nine acres of its Montrose land to Cairn Homes for €107.5m will be invested in improving the public broadcaster’s services as well as reducing debt.

I return to Bordeaux again this week after a fascinating recent vertical tasting and also because the wine world is full of talk of the potential of the 2016 vintage thanks to the recent en-primeur tastings.

Tributes have been paid to RTÉ's political correspondent David Davin Power, who has retired from the station today

IN terms of scale, Ireland has always been and always will be a tiny television and radio market. 

In a rapidly changing TV landscape, RTÉ’s only realistic options are to reduce its costs as a TV platform and increase the commercial income it earns as a producer, writes Roddy Flynn

WHEN Dee Forbes took on the role of director general of RTÉ last year it was evident she would bring not just international broadcasting experience to the job but also commercial nous.

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RTÉ has appointed auctioneers to sell up to four acres of prime land, valued at €50m, at Donnybrook in Dublin.

Thanks to events across the Atlantic this autumn, “normalising” will go down as one of the words of the year. The man who promoted it, New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick, deserves praise for providing an essential tool in describing the GUBU US Presidential election.