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In a post office in north Dublin, a middle-aged lady was giving her concession speech. “I did my bit, I tried to send a message,” she said, with good-humoured resignation. Behind the window, the An Post clerk nodded in sincere support. Oh well, the woman surrendered, “I held out for six months!”
Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has said the Public Accounts Committee is eager to hear about the “goodbye package” received by former RTÉ chief financial officer Breda O’Keeffe.
We suspected it at the time, but we did it anyway. The moment this column declared Brendan Courtney seemed the ideal candidate to take over from Ryan Tubridy on RTÉ1’s The Nine O’Clock Show (RTÉ1, weekdays, 9am) was probably the moment Oliver Callan was home and hosed. Perhaps subconsciously it was our way of ensuring Callan got the job, revealing that deep down he was the one we wanted.
Operation Transformation leader Darragh Fitzgerald has said his time on the show has been “life-changing” – with viewers from across the country getting behind him in support of his cancer “journey”.
Numerous ministers’ public pledges to decide soon on future funding for RTÉ – and indeed other media – lose more and more credibility as the days tick down to various elections, including a Dáil election likely later this year, if not in early 2025. As each day passes, a “sticking-plaster remedy” for the stricken public service broadcaster looks increasingly likely.