As expected the merging of the news departments of Today FM and Newstalk took place yesterday. Both stations, owned by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp company, will pool resources with newsreaders and journalists appearing on both stations during bulletins.
There were further cutbacks at Newstalk as they cut two evening programmes. Late Night Live with Declan Carty, which [...]

There has been much media coverage of the newly released album by three Irish priests. Fathers Eugene O’Hagan (48), his brother Martin (45) and their old school friend David Delargy (44) made international headlines after signing a £1m (€1.19m) record deal with Sony BMG earlier this year and their album ‘The Priests’ is already number [...]

The Irish film industry received a welcome boost today when it was announced that Hollywood big shot and religious lunatic Tom Cruise is to star in an Irish production early next year.
The movie, which is to be a biopic of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, will be produced by Neil Jordan, directed by Oliver Stone and [...]

Friends of portly Setanta Sports pundit Pat Dolan have revealed they’re desperately worried about his health and have urged him to go into rehab to fight his demons.
The former St Patrick’s Athletic manager was recently photographed stuffing his face in Burger King on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Scientists concluded that the mere fact that he [...]

There have been mixed reactions to the news released by Channel 5 in the UK that Gerry and Kate McCann are set to star in a remake of hit series Dempsey and Makepeace.
The show, which features a streetwise New York cop working alongside an upper class English detective, was hugely popular in the 1980s. With [...]

Barry George has reportedly developed a fixation on RTE newsreader Anne Doyle.
The loner, who was cleared of murdering BBC presenter Jill Dando earlier this year, has bombarded the Montrose newsroom with emails, texts (at 30c a time) and phone calls.
According to a source the 48-year-old has even threatened to wait outside the studios for Anne, [...]

There was further bad news for the BBC and presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross yesterday. With the outcry over the phone calls and messages left for actor Andrew Sachs, in which Ross blurted out that his polluted looking co-presented had “f*cked” his grand-daughter, the last thing the pair, or the corporation, needed was more [...]

A Dublin man is refusing all media interviews after taking part in Ireland’s most bizarre wedding ceremony yesterday.
Albert Byrne of Knocklyon yesterday married a female bonobo monkey in the Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green in a private ceremony with just a few family and friends on both sides present.
It is the first known wedding [...]

Despite the cataclysmic budget presented to the country by Brian Lenihan yesterday the major talking point in bars and private members clubs across Ireland was the failure of Cecilia Ahern to win the Man Booker prize.
Instead the award was given to Indian author Aravind Adiga for his debut novel ‘The white tiger’. It tells the [...]

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At the cinema Gabriel Byrne and Adam Sandler star in ‘Fists of Furey’. Sandler plays a goofy slacker who one day gets both his fists stuck in the anus of Finbar Furey, played by Byrne. In [...]