And of course, it was during Martina Fitzgerald's live report.

On last night’s Nine O’Clock News, Martina Fitzgerald was reporting from outside Government building when she was interrupted yet again by a passer-by.

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There are two maxims in the entertainment industry: one says there’s no business like show business and the other insists that the show must go on.

If you watching the Nine O’clock News last night, you might have noticed that they were suffering from what RTE generously called technical difficulties.

Broadcaster and psychoanalyst, Michael Murphy, will bring his evening of reflection: ‘Stories, Poetry and Dreams to the Triskel, Christchurch next week and ahead of the event, Colette Sheridan talks to him about his work, his books and his outlo.

Poor Eileen Dunne was left looking very uncomfortable on the Nine O’Clock News tonight.

Dunne & Crescenzi,

RTÉ’s God Slot radio programme was subjected to a wave of criticism last night after it posed a question on Twitter asking if “gays can be cured of being gay”.

Families and friends of people lost through suicide attended remembrance ceremonies throughout the country yesterday organised by the national suicide prevention and bereavement charity, Console.

HAS it been three years since they arrived first, since they sailed up the Liffey in their fast and nimble longships, the oars glinting in the autumn sun?

It was the kind of gathering Colm Murray would have loved.

It remains a mystery why people who regularly received the eucharist and confessed their sins abused people and undermined the credibility of the Church’s message, Pope Benedict said yesterday.

The Priests will be headline performers at the climax of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress.

THE restaurant business is all-encompassing and work becomes your life, if you are passionate.

ANNE DOYLE signed off on her career as a newsreader on Christmas night and RTÉ chiefs believe it may turn out to be the most watched bulletin of the year.

AN RTÉ voluntary redundancy and early retirement scheme aimed at securing at least 70 job cuts received a large number of last-minute applications before a 5pm deadline yesterday.

MENTAL Health Minister John Moloney has questioned whether there is a media “conspiracy” behind the lack of coverage granted to a major campaign aimed at de-stigmatising mental illness.

I THINK there’s something sad about newsreader Eileen Dunne having to apologise on behalf of RTÉ for the light hearted item aired on Monday’s news about the semi-naked, non-sexual, mildly satiric paintings of Brian Cowen.

THE Taoiseach has no clothes.

THE paintings of Brian Cowen were, at the very latest, completed some time in January, judging by an email to the Ray D’Arcy Show on Today FM on the 19th of that month.

RTÉ was forced to apologise to Brian Cowen last night over a news broadcast concerning nude portraits of the Taoiseach mysteriously hung in two Dublin galleries.

BROADCASTER Pat Kenny wiped back tears as he bid an emotional farewell to his late mother at her funeral Mass in Dublin.

THERE WAS no doubt about the biggest sensation of the week – Colm Murray’s discovery that in China they use chopsticks. But Drogheda United ran the RTÉ man close.

WHEN is a boat not a boat? When it’s a ‘boash’.

STRAPPY gowns and forceful frowns were the special ingredients that went into making it the biggest night of the year on the Irish social calendar.

ALMOST three quarters of staff in RTÉ earn less than €49,000 a year, according to figures released yesterday.