RTÉ radio presenter Marian Finucane is to give up her daily programme next year.
Ms Finucane recently signed a four-year contract with RTÉ, but under this new arrangement she will cease presenting her hour-long morning show from next summer.
In an interview with The Irish Times, to be published in the Magazine on Saturday, Ms Finucane says that from autumn next year she will move on to making other programmes for the national broadcaster.
"And next season - which is this time next year - RTÉ has agreed to allow me to do programmes that have been on my mind for about 11 years," she said, declining to give details of her programme plans.
However, she added: "I have always been an issues person. That is in my nature - and it is not going to change."
Ms Finucane's morning radio programme is one of RTÉ's most successful shows.
The most recent Joint National Listenership Report showed she has a daily audience of over 370,000 listeners.
However, last year there was speculation that her programme could be dropped as part of a revamped morning schedule, while there were also media reports that Ms Finucane was being headhunted by the Dublin current affairs station, Newstalk.
Ms Finucane is one of RTÉ's highest-paid presenters. She received fees of just under €330,000 in 2002, the latest year for which figures have been made available.
Ms Finucane was the presenter of the ground-breaking Women Today programme, which first went on air in 1979.
"We had a ball. We were always in trouble," she says in her interview with The Irish Times.
"It sounds almost medieval now, but if you did anything on reproduction or marriage that wasn't exactly in tune with the Roman Catholic Church's line you'd get slaughtered.
"You couldn't mention the word 'orgasm'.
"As for anything that would even remotely suggest homosexuality - I remember one senior manager at RTÉ saying to me after one programme that he could not eat his dinner and that he did not know how far we were going to go."
Ms Finucane has recently been appointed chair of the Consumer Liaison Panel, a body which looks at food issues and operates under the aegis of the Department of Agriculture and Food.