Plus: Michael O’Leary’s brush with the Residential Tenancies Board; and Michael Lynn’s latest legal move

Sinn Féin has claimed the current timetable means committees will not be set up until May

Plus: the Conor McGregor donation that never was; agent Noel Kelly’s unchanged fortunes at RTÉ; and the four Oireachtas members with prize-bond fever

Kelly became a household name during 2023’s RTÉ payments controversy

Plus: Still waiting for Shane Ross to dish the dirt on RTÉ; ex-Ireland player’s country house plans hit a brick wall and team Trump take aim at an Irish ‘DEI musical’

The sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War, the true story of the Free Willy orca and a conspiracy theory surrounding Avril Lavigne also feature

Many presenters left RTÉ's pop station but Radio 1 had a much more stable year and Newstalk sailed serenely on. The online sphere and the threat of podcasts looms ever larger

Irish Embassy in London hosted the UK launch of former minister for housing’s memoir, Running From Office

Work will include an audit of annual earnings of highest-paid presenters at the national broadcaster

Staff at Department of the Taoiseach prepared four-page primer, including notes on Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot at request of Simon Harris

Mariah Carey pops up with a video message as 150-minute show reaches the finish line with a group performance of All I Want For Christmas Is You

Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles

Chat show host moved to London’s Virgin Radio UK last year in the wake of RTÉ’s payments controversy

Television: Evening reaches a high when Daniel O’Donnell and Shona McGarty perform Kris Kristofferson’s Me and Bobby McGee as host Patrick Kielty looks relieved

Plus: Irish Catholic podcast believes the pope is a very naughty boy; JP McManus’s road woes; and Ciaran Mullooly’s new adviser in Brussels

Former RTÉ chairwoman on ‘vicious’ Dáil hearings, a missed opportunity to fund the national broadcaster and life after being in the public glare of the Montrose psychodrama

As he prepares to publish his fifth novel, a low-key Norton reflects on fame, growing up in west Cork and the Ryan Tubridy debate

Broadcaster set aside €21.7m to meet PRSI liabilities from bogus self-employment in the organisation, records show

Pat Kenny’s listenership rises to fresh record on Newstalk as station claims its highest-ever market share

Presenter welcomes 10% audience climb in his second quarter on Virgin Radio UK, as he surpasses his peak RTÉ listenership