The slip-up came as the Wicklow TD was answering a question about whether a vaccine would be found to end the outbreak of Covid-19.
The coverage given to Trump is by design of course, as journalists the world-over try to dig his grave ahead of November’s election, but the dereliction of duty in holding our own political class to account is inexcusable.
“As some of you may know, I tested positive for Covid-19,” the email read.
“You need not to get this disease, and you need to do that by keeping away from other people”. That was the expert medical advice given to the nation last night on RTE’s Primetime.
They will also broadcast messages from non-Catholic denominations and religions following daily Mass.
Last night’s leaders debate between the three people vying to be the next Taoiseach has earned high praise from some of the UK journalists visiting our shores to find out how Ireland conducts its politics. For all that Irish people might think that our politicians are sub-standard, at least some of those observing from abroad […]
In some ways, you have to feel very sorry for Fianna Fáil’s MEP Billy Kelleher. When he voted, as a TD, to abolish the offence of blasphemy, he probably thought he was increasing his own freedom of speech. What he didn’t realise was that the offence of blasphemy in Ireland was only abolished for mocking […]
Peadar Tóibín has said that Aontú is considering legal action against RTÉ because they have excluded the party from Monday’s leaders’ debate. Seven political parties will take part in the televised debate – but Aontú, with six elected representatives have been excluded. Now Aontú has told RTÉ that if the party is not included in […]
In a move that will have critics and allies of RTÉ alike questioning the journalistic standards of the station Dr Peter Boylan has made the claim that Jon Williams, the managing director of RTE News, and presenter Claire Byrne made a pledge to him that he would be given a right of immediate response to […]
There was a real danger there, for a while, that Tubridy and Co would have to take significant pay cuts to account for the fact that not enough people are watching RTE, but thanks to the generosity of the Fine Gael government, on your behalf, crisis averted: RTÉ is set to receive €50 million in […]
We’ve stayed away from the UK election on this site because, let’s face it, it’s impossible to escape it at the moment, but this has some relevance to Ireland, given the well-known problems at RTE. Boris Johnson says this morning, in Sunderland, that he may take the opposite route to that being proposed by the […]
This was buried away at the very tail end of this morning’s programme, but it was there nonetheless, and it is very important to highlight it. Here is what Bryan Dobson (who did not work for Morning Ireland at the time of the defamation) had to say: “On July 31st, 2017, Morning Ireland introduced an […]