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John Cuffe takes a look at how the likes of Dublin, Kerry and Tyrone have influenced the media narrative around their GAA teams and the difference that has made…

By John Cuffe Dublin’s All-Ireland win, not a shock by the way, has forced the book on that particular group of players to be delayed. The run of success…

Here we go again; an Irish solution to an Irish problem.

By John Cuffe When you are dead but not buried, that’s what the All-Ireland semi-finals did to Mayo, resurrected our ghosts. We’re lying in the morgue as Dublin…

Bob Dylan wrote the song Everything Is Broken. Thanks to the legacies of various governments here, it feels as if nothing works in this country. Everything does indeed feel broken.

RTÉ discontinued long-wave (LW) radio transmissions last April on the grounds of the cost incurred in maintaining the LW transmitter.

By John Cuffe The proverbial game of two halves, the haves and have nots. Dublin and Mayo, the defining teams of the last decade, often little separating them…

You can trot out the usual game of two halves, nothing given in Mayo versus Galway games and the form book torn up, but this match was of the last man standing variety

No wonder the top bankers are livid. They see RTÉ, the nation’s conscientious watchdog, doing a bit of adroit accounting to pay its top “stars” a salary consummate with their status.

By John Cuffe So much for my six to ten points win. ‘If we want to be treated like the Dubs or Kerry, then we blah blah Louth’. Turns out Louth had a say in…