# Bai

All time

Clarity sought from BAI after reports Zappone pulled from show over referendum fears

The Sunday Independent reported today that an invitation for Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone to appear on Tv3 show The Restaurant next year had been withdrawn.

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Dec 17th 2017, 4:12 PM

# queen of ireland

Complaints made to RTÉ about Panti Bliss trailer before Six Nations rugby and the Angelus

Both complaints were rejected by the BAI.

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Nov 29th 2017, 6:01 AM

# Off the hook

Complaint against George Hook rejected after he called texter a 's**t'

Hook also jokingly said he would box the texter in the face.

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Nov 28th 2017, 2:20 PM

# Emergency

See the Ophelia warnings on TV on Sunday? That was Ireland's emergency broadcasting system in action

It was the first time the system was brought into use in ireland under the 2009 Broadcasting Act.

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Oct 21st 2017, 9:30 PM

# pen pals

BAI to write to Communicorp for a second time over station-ban on Irish Times journalists

The Denis O’Brien-owned Communicorp has had the ban in place since 5 October.

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Oct 19th 2017, 7:11 PM

# kinvara fm

Villagers in this Galway community are buying up shares in their own local radio station

Kinvara FM is the new community radio station based in the south Galway village.

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Aug 11th 2017, 6:10 AM

# blindboy boatclub

BAI rejects complaints over Rubberbandit calling communion 'haunted bread' on the Late Late Show

In all, 11 complaints were received after Blindboy Boatclub’s appearance on the RTÉ show.

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Aug 3rd 2017, 1:44 PM

# Northside Southside

Irish comedy show Damo and Ivor to hit the big screen

Damo and Ivor first appeared on YouTube back in 2011.

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Jul 20th 2017, 7:34 PM

# broadcasting act

Complaint about RTÉ coverage of undercover pregnancy counselling report is rejected

The details are contained in the latest Broadcasting Association of Ireland report.

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Jun 29th 2017, 4:00 PM

# Bai

TheJournal.ie is now the main online news source for Irish people

A third of the Irish market checked TheJournal.ie this week according to Reuters Institute Digital News Report.

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Jun 22nd 2017, 11:00 AM

# What Are You Eating

Complaint about Darina Allen's 'ban on squishy sliced pan' rejected by BAI

Chef and television presenter Darina Allen said that if she was the Minister for Health, she would ban sliced pan.

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Jun 1st 2017, 6:05 AM

# Gemma O'Doherty

Complaint of 'derogatory' language used by Fianna Fáil leader against journalist rejected

Gemma O’Doherty had alleged that Micheál Martin had spoken about her in a ‘derogatory and unfair’ manner on Newstalk radio.

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Apr 27th 2017, 6:15 AM

# HPV vaccine

Claim George Hook spoke about HPV vaccine in 'ill-informed and irresponsible' manner rejected

The BAI said that Hook’s approach to discussing the vaccine had satisfied its Code of Fairness, but “only in a barely minimal fashion”.

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Apr 27th 2017, 6:05 AM

# product placement

People deserve 'decent, honest' ads says broadcasting authority as it launches new rules

Product placement gets a separate distinction to advertising in the revised code.

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Mar 28th 2017, 11:00 AM

# diversity

Plan to get more women on airwaves 'welcome' - but progress could take years

Broadcasters will have to report to the BAI on gender balance and diversity of their presenters and contributors.

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Feb 22nd 2017, 6:27 PM

# Bai

Complaint about Eamon Dunphy's 'extreme' comments on RTÉ rejected

The BAI said that the use of extreme language was typical of Dunphy’s provocative style.

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Feb 1st 2017, 6:10 AM

# Bai

Complaints around 8th Amendment and 'rubbishing Mass' on Rose of Tralee rejected

The BAI rejected seven complaints to do with last year’s Rose of Tralee

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Jan 31st 2017, 7:30 PM

# Dublin Talks

Woman subjected to 'grossly offensive comments' on fatal foetal abnormality on 98FM show

A caller into the Dublin Talks show was also said to have “made allusions to her complicity in what he considered to be murder”.

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Jan 31st 2017, 2:47 PM

# lost in translation

Today FM team given stern talking to about 'weak c**k' comment

The presenter was talking about the literal translation of a German word.

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Dec 3rd 2016, 11:00 AM

# FM104

Radio show allowed special needs children to be called 'mongos'

The BAI noted the man was allowed to talk for a considerable period of time before his comments were strongly challenged by the show’s presenter.

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Nov 30th 2016, 1:38 PM

# bold bai

Someone made an official complaint over Oliver Callan talking about Thomas Clarke's genitalia

There were three complaints made in relation to coverage around the 1916 Rising.

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Oct 28th 2016, 6:03 AM

# noel walsh

Station made "personal and pointed" remarks about election candidate who didn't turn up for interview

It noted there had been some “fundamental conflict of fact” in regard to whether Noel G Walsh was supposed to turn up or not.

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Oct 27th 2016, 6:00 PM

# Bai

Complaint over Paul Williams calling some Sinn Féin voters "drug dealers" and "killers" on Late Late dismissed

Williams said that anyone who voted for Sinn Féin on foot of the party’s plan to get rid of the Special Criminal Court were ‘drug dealers, killers, kidnappers, and terrorists’.

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Oct 27th 2016, 2:20 PM

# Name In Vain

Ryan Tubridy was ok to say "bejaysus" on the Late Late Show

“He’s scaring the bejaysus out of me now I have to say, with that look.”

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Sep 16th 2016, 6:00 AM

# energy independence

BAI upholds complaint against the 'Power to Power Ourselves' wind energy ad

A complainant said the ad, which features a haunting voiceover speech by JFK on Ireland’s destiny, ran foul of a ban on political advertising.

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Sep 15th 2016, 6:35 PM

# The Right Hook

BAI rejects complaint that George Hook fuelled anti-Islamic hate speech

A woman complained about a show in which he discussed Muslim students and also the New Years sex attacks in Germany.

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May 28th 2016, 8:00 AM

# more complaints

Ray D’Arcy interview about vasectomies and abortion did not break broadcasting rules

The context of the RTÉ Radio One interview with Dr Andrew Rynne was noted by the BAI.

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May 27th 2016, 6:10 AM

# Hate speech

Slap on the wrist for FM104 over caller who called Africans 'parasites'

The man said Irish women who date African men are “absolute sluts”.

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May 26th 2016, 1:44 PM

# complaint upheld

Ray D’Arcy interview with Graham Linehan and wife over abortion broke broadcasting rules

The interview had to do with the couple’s foetus being diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality

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May 24th 2016, 8:15 PM

# langerload

These spray-painted definitions of Cork slang words have popped up all over the city

Mint.

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May 8th 2016, 2:57 PM

# it's not okay

Swedish rebuke for Ray D'Arcy over dial-a-random-Swede segment

The RTÉ host called two random Swedes without telling them they’d be on the radio.

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Apr 12th 2016, 9:12 PM

# Changes

Former Phantom FM boss makes a pitch for TXFM licence

Simon Maher left Phantom, now known as TXFM, after Communicorp came on board.

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Apr 1st 2016, 9:58 AM

# formerly phantom

TXFM, Dublin's alternative rock station, is closing down

The station, formerly known as Phantom 105.2, has not applied to renew its licence.

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Mar 30th 2016, 5:27 PM

# jnlr figures

RTÉ Radio 1 is still hammering the opposition in the radio wars

The JNLR figures are out – here’s what people have been listening to.

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Feb 3rd 2016, 5:47 PM

# Naughty

Presenter did not break broadcasting rules with 'c**k socket' comment

The radio station held a competition for the best name for female genitalia – and one listener did not approve.

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Jan 29th 2016, 6:08 AM

# tears of pride

BAI rejects complaints Ray D'Arcy was biased in marriage referendum coverage

One listener wasn’t happy the presenter said he had cried with pride when the vote was passed.

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Jan 28th 2016, 8:00 PM

# Cork

Radio host's comment about asylum seekers 'going to the beach' didn't break broadcasting rules

A presenter on Cork City Community Radio had suggested that a decision to offer an asylum seeker a university place was unfair to Irish-born families.

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Jan 28th 2016, 3:06 PM