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Bryan Dobson has said his decision to retire after 37 years with RTÉ hasn’t quite sunken in yet.

It is a lovely sunny day in Cork, hurtling towards the depths of summer 2023. There are hundreds of people enjoying the wide variety of food on offer at the famous Marina Market, and they’re all completely oblivious that they are just a few feet away from some of the most recognisable Corkonians this side of Cillian Murphy.

A former RTÉ employee has been jailed for a year for possession of child sex abuse imagery on his mobile phone.

It started without any formal declaration of war and ended without a negotiated peace. But Ireland’s Civil War – deemed to have run from June 28, 1922, until May 24, 1923 – left us a legacy of deeply entrenched bitterness and framed this nation’s politics across the 20th century.

Simon Harris and Catherine Martin met up last week. The agenda was ostensibly to discuss issues in her multi-faceted Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. No doubt the Taoiseach had to feign interest in the basic income for the arts and other worthy ventures. But the real purpose of the meeting was to discuss where things are at with RTÉ.

David Murphy has been appointed as the new Economics and Public Affairs Correspondent for RTÉ News.

In the 1960s, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid denounced her as “mad, bad and dangerous”. Distinguished historian Robert Savage wrote that “some believed she would eventually become director general of RTÉ”.

Former workers at RTÉ have spoken about the “fear” and “stress” they faced working at the state broadcaster under bogus self-employment practices.

Actors in Fair City feel “expendable” and like “second-class employees” as filming is set to stop this summer to free up technical staff to cover sports events, politicians will be told today.