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“Just a little note…”
Allegations of a major cover-up are spreading from politicians to government officials.
Several former TDs and ministers have strenuously denied any wrongdoing, after Mary Lou McDonald read out their names in the Dáil today.
The Public Accounts Committee is to seek further legal advice.
The Public Accounts Committee has been told it cannot investigate a dossier containing allegations of tax evasion by senior politicians.
Enda Kenny addressed the latest claims in the Dáil this afternoon.
The tile was laid outside the radio centre yesterday evening.
They are planning a memorial but the event will be “marked privately”.
And a couple you definitely haven’t, from the contest 20 years ago today.
Lottie Ryan will present a weekend breakfast show from 6am.
It started out as an innocent book review but ended up as the subject of a police investigation. Hugh Travers writes about the late great Gerry Ryan and the claim that made him famous.
The Gerry Ryan show first went on air in March 1988.
All the celebrity dirt you need to know this morning.
“They’ve computers now you see….is the school around the corner just the same?”
If you didn’t watch, you actually missed out on a pretty brilliant show. Lucky you, though: here’s your cheat sheet.
Ryan Tubridy has lost 27,000 listeners in six months – with his audience now less than half of his previous listenership on Radio 1.
Gardaí have built a case against a now 77-year-old man who is in jail in the UK.
Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave have pulled out of UNICEF events following Melanie Vorwoerd’s dismissal from the charity. UNICEF has apologised to Ireland for the “public nature of the controversy”.
Our collection of the day’s news, developments and random tidbits.
Gardaí say it is unlikely anyone will be prosecuted for Gerry Ryan’s death a year ago today.
Our collection of the day’s news, developments and random tidbits.
The taxi driver who was the last person to see the RTÉ broadcaster alive has told a newspaper that Ryan “definitely” didn’t act like he was on drugs on the night he died.
The Irish Sun reports that no-one may ever be charged with supplying cocaine to the broadcaster.
Toxicology report should never have been made public, rugby star tells HotPress.
The report shows he was taking a number of prescription drugs at the time of his death.
RTE has admitted its coverage was “less than it could have been”, and said it held back out of respect for Gerry Ryan’s family. But was it right to do so?
Gardaí have denied that they concealed the activities of high-profile drug abusers and say an investigation will be launched into the allegations raised yesterday by the Sunday Independent.
Kenny tells listeners he had no idea about Ryan’s cocaine problems – and says RTÉ would have intervened if it did.