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1. #IVOR THE TERRIBLE: Today in the Seanad, Senator Ivor Callely began praising the recent High Court ruling against his Seanad suspension last summer, before being interrupted by the Cathaoirleach calling time. Speaking over the Cathaoirleach and the bell, Callely quoted from the Bible: “You shall know the truth – and the truth shall set you free”.

2. #BAILOUT: Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan are due to meet European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in an hour’s time, to discuss the possibility of Ireland renegotiating its EU/IMF bailout agreement. Billionaire former investor George Soros says it’s “patently unfair” Irish people have to absorb the total losses caused by the banks, while the bondholders are “free”.

3. #KINDLE: Online store Amazon has announced that the number of ebooks sold for the Kindle device has now overtaken the site’s sale of paperbacks.

4. #GE11: Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin may intervene in the party’s election planning by moving candidates between constituencies. Martin is reportedly concerned about the number of candidates Fianna Fáil is running in some constituencies.

5. #FACELUCK: A Dublin man has tracked down his stolen car after someone who saw his appeal on Facebook spotted the vehicle. Warren Coakley, 34, saw his Audi A4 being stolen from outside his house in Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15 over a week ago. Five days later, with the help of Facebook, he found it in Mulhuddart.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 7:31 PM

    The RTE click at it again,

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    Apr 24th 2013, 7:36 PM

    Yep

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    Apr 27th 2013, 12:24 AM

    Why do you say that Hillary? The guy taking over from him is an outsider, so is the new Head of News.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:37 PM

    So basically the headline here could’ve read: “Man moves desk.”

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:14 PM

    They should just close it down and save a fortune. Would anyone actually notice anyway?

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    Apr 24th 2013, 9:39 PM

    Nope

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:07 PM

    @Marko – no…..only their paymasters.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:24 PM

    Typical RTE Club.
    Merry go round Jobs for the Boys.
    No imagination and costing us a fortune .

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:26 PM

    Was the job advertised?

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:54 PM

    I think they asked Bill but he’s busy with some film thing.
    That’s advertising, right???

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    Apr 25th 2013, 12:32 AM

    It was actually. I spotted it on their website a while back.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:30 PM

    John McMahon resigns today and the radio listenership figures are released tomorrow. I presume that 2FM didn’t perform well in the listenership figures. Only in RTE could a person do a bad job and get moved to another area. No doubt, John McMahon is earning the same wage in his new job !

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    Apr 24th 2013, 9:38 PM

    I’d like to see Aidan Leonard take on the new role as head of 2 FM & run it along the lines of Smooth Radio/Capital Gold in the UK. Those two stations are proving to be Very Successful Operations in the UK Broadcasting Market. The current problem with Irish Independent Radio with the exception of Classic Hits 4 FM, Sunshine 106.8 FM is that, they all sound exactly the same.
    Bland, Formatted & Boring. So hopefully, the Power’s that be in RTE will Completely Overhaul & Re-Imagize 2 FM for the sanity of the Irish Listening Radio Public.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 9:44 PM

    Hey I’d love to see it as an Irish 6music but that is very bloody unlikely given RTE are still swamped in Smashy and Nicey’s….We’re still waiting for that Radio1 cull of dead wood they had in the 80s, over here.

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    Apr 27th 2013, 12:27 AM

    Re-imagize? Is that English?

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    Apr 25th 2013, 12:12 AM

    There’s a 2fm?

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:52 PM

    6 comments = shit news

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