Ireland

Tributes have poured in from across the Radio sector, following the death of Christy Dignam this afternoon at his Dublin home, after a long battle with cancer. […]

Ex RTÉ 2fm DJ Nikki Hayes is to be sentenced in October after admitting to laundering €10,000 through her bank account. […]

Over 1,200 new programmes focussing on climate change and championing climate action, are to be broadcast in the next year by local and regional broadcasters across Ireland. The new project – ‘Ours to Protect’ hit the airwaves this week and involves 23 radio stations delivering locally-produced content, led by the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland; with […] […]

Beat has hired Luke O’Faolain as the new presenter of the station’s flagship weekend show, Old Skool Sunday, replacing Pete Windle. Luke returns to Beat following six years of broadcasting in the capital with the likes of 98FM, Radio Nova and Today FM. Having kickstarted his career with Beat back in 2014, Luke went on […] […]

The fifteenth annual Cork’s 96FM’s Giving for Living Radiothon has ended with a total of €429,597. It brings the cumulative raised so far by Radiothons run by the Wireless Ireland station since 2008 to more than €6.1 million. Listeners held fundraising events right across Cork City and County including “Coffee Breaks” and a “Paddlethon”. Bus […] […]

Over 5,300 RTÉ radio recordings from the 1927 – 1970s are now available online with rare insight into the voices, sounds and topics from the past. Highlights include: Opening of the Cork radio station 6CK (1927) Maud Gonne Recalls Evictions (1947) Provincial News Round Up (1957) Sean McBride jokes about the merits of radio (Wexford […] […]