BBC blows final whistle on Football Focus as show scrapped after 52 years
Broadcaster says it must ‘respond appropriately’ to evolving viewing habits
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Television: New presenters chef Anna Haugh and food critic Grace Dent go together like Tayto and red lemonade
Mint on BBC One review: Piping hot, deliriously strange new crime drama steeped in magical realism
Television: Charlotte Regan has gone out on a limb with this tale of star-crossed lovers in small-town Scotland
Patrick O’Donovan’s attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media
It is fair to ask if news media do a good job of capturing and representing a range of public views
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Róisín Ingle: I took my mother to London to see Joyce, her only remaining sibling
Róisín Ingle: Chance to visit her last remaining sibling was a magic key that unlocked our trip to London
How did Peter Mandelson fail security vetting but still get approved as US ambassador?
Keir Starmer has been busy explaining but key questions remain around the former US ambassador’s appointment
Radio DJ Andy Kershaw dies aged 66
Old Grey Whistle Test presenter and Live Aid host succeeded John Peel on BBC Radio 1
Samantha Barry profile: The Cork woman who went from RTÉ to highest level of US publishing
Cork native is stepping down as editor of Glamour, as publishing giant Condé Nast announces shift in business strategy
A Gorilla Story on Netflix: David Attenborough at his most chill pill-sounding back where it all began
Television: As he approaches his 100th birthday, veteran wildlife presenter catches up with descendants of primates he met on Life on Earth
Cork woman Samantha Barry steps down as editor-in-chief at Glamour magazine
Journalist who worked at RTÉ, BBC and CNN is leaving the magazine’s parent company Condé Nast
Secret Service is supremely stupid. But as a Gordon Ramsay show it’s truly excellent
Firing up his electronic germ-counter, the sweary chef goes under cover of darkness to make some queasy discoveries
Dearly imparted: Frank McNally on Paddy the philanthropist, the BBC banning of Clannad, and Beckett’s womb with a view
Might Paddy Dear be persuaded to throw a few million our way, for the relief of distress in dear old Ireland?
BBC to cut one in 10 jobs in radical downsizing
New director-general Matt Brittin to replace Tim Davie next month
Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch dismissed
US president called media mogul personally to try prevent publication of report he sent ‘bawdy’ email to Jeffrey Epstein
Holly Humberstone: ‘I have to look nice, or my album isn’t going to sell. The same rules don’t apply for dudes’
The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she says
Trump’s World Cup has a strong whiff of the last days of Rome
With a host nation at war and ‘Fifa’ rendered as a swear word, escapism will be hard to find this summer
Ronan Keating’s Wild Atlantic review: The singer’s grief is raw and real during his travels
Television: Sightseeing takes a back seat as Keating talks about his brother Ciarán, who died in 2023
Bafta N-word controversy: BBC found to have breached editorial standards
Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson could be heard shouting racial slur during ceremony
Be more Ryan Gosling: Why AI and the media need us to be curious
News outlets are built on curiosity. Now they’re having to defend the kind the powerful don’t like
The Young Offenders on BBC One: Lowbrow gags sitting neatly between Benny Hill and Mrs Brown’s Boys
Television: The cast is outstanding, Cork looks great – what a tragedy this can’t aspire to more than old-school British sitcom in a Cork jersey
Irish-language Bluey actor had never heard of hit show before its turn as Gaeilge
Global smash Australian kids show to begin airing in Irish next week
Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel show
In tense times, geopolitically speaking, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching people embrace the stress and excitement of travel
Scott Mills says he has been subject to ‘rumour and speculation’ since sacking by BBC
Former radio presenter removed from role after broadcaster received ‘new information’ relating to alleged historical sex offence
What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage
Babies on BBC One: Siobhán Cullen is quietly searing in beautifully made show suffused with dread
Television: Series is to be applauded for sensitively addressing the anguish of being unable to have a child and the related pain of miscarriage
Siobhán Cullen on Babies: ‘It’s crazy to me that I had come this far without knowing so much’
Stefan Golaszewski’s BBC series starring Cullen and Paapa Essiedu gives screen time to some of the most soul-wrenching experiences imaginable
DJ Scott Mills sacked by BBC over ‘personal conduct’ allegations
Scott Mills took over the Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Zoe Ball last year
TV guide: The best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 28th-April 3rd highlights, including Grace, Race Across the World, and Your Friends & Neighbors
How The Kinks’ musical spat with Moby blew up
Lola, which the New York musician took issue with, came out 56 years ago. That’s a long time in pop music and a geologic aeon in gender politics
Clive Myrie: ‘The best journalists are the ones who behave like human beings’
The BBC news anchor and Mastermind host films the quiz show in Belfast and is a regular visitor to Ireland
Barnum star Lee Mead: ‘I was hoping I’d be singing on a cruise ship, but no. It was a car ferry’
Manifesting what he wanted in life worked for the TV and theatre actor when it came to landing the lead role in Barnum
Irish MasterChef finalist Mark O’Brien: ‘The biggest challenge is the feeling of exposure’
Dubliner Mark O’Brien was one of three chefs who made it to the final of the flagship BBC programme
BBC names former Google executive as new director general
Matt Brittin to take on role in May, facing advance of Trump lawsuit and challenges to broadcaster’s funding model
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