Senator Ronan Mullen has said that he “would support” those who choose not to pay their TV license fee, arguing that the State broadcaster’s bias on the issue of abortion would warrant it. Speaking in the Seanad on Tuesday, Senator Mullin spoke about the dramatic surge in abortions that took place since the 2018 8th […]
Rarely, my friends, has there been a better or more comprehensive advert for not paying one’s licence fee than this tweet from Managing Director of RTÉ News, Jon Williams: Agree- it’s terrific. Love to do something similar @rtenews. All it needs is for everyone who is supposed to pay TV licence to do so. Then […]
For most of us, September 11th, 2001, was mostly memorable for the attacks by Al-Quaeda operatives on New York and Washington DC, with planes crashing into the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon. But for a little-remembered British Government advisor, by the name of Jo Moore, it marked the day her career in Government came […]
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The television licence, as regular readers will know, goes almost in its entirety to RTE, with a small amount set aside for TG4 and Irish language programming. It’s also an absolute abomination. And it seems that a lot of Irish people have come to the same conclusion: THE “BROKEN” TV licence system is costing about […]
Save it from what, exactly? Former RTE reporter Charlie Bird has made an impassioned plea about the future of the national broadcaster, saying it is time people ‘got up off their backsides’ to highlight its precarious state. He was commenting after the publication of a briefing document to Catherine Martin, the Minister for Media, which […]
Every year thousands of people are brought before the Irish courts for failing to pay their TV licence, of which several hundreds are sent to prison – a hugely disproportionate number compared to the UK. In the 1920’s, entertainment-based broadcasters took the first hesitant steps toward the wireless revolution, but nations across the world imposed a […]
Just under a week after RTE’s veteran reporter, Tommie Gorman, told the viewing public that Ireland was doing so well compared to Britain because the English “lacked people of the stature of Tony Holohan and Paul Reid”, RTE is getting a treat from the Government. What a good boy: GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE of public service […]
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 […]
Tim Jackson says it’s time to let RTÉ sink or swim in the real world as government plans are hatched to introduce a new Screen Tax. #gript