Mick Heaney
Radio Columnist at Irish Times
Journalist, Columnist, Broadcaster and Researcher at Freelance
Journalist, radio columnist, occasional broadcaster. KTF. COYB.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mick Heaney
As if we didn’t have enough on our plates already, Ray D’Arcy (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) urgently wants to bring another contentious issue to our attention. “This is really important,” the presenter declares, “Would you allow anyone else to pour gravy on your dinner?”D’Arcy is pondering this moral conundrum on foot of survey findings that 81 per cent of people think it wrong to add said sauce to someone else’s food.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mick Heaney
The kids are all right? Whatever the case when The Who originally made the claim, in the swinging London of 1965, it seems a dubious assertion in Ireland 60 years later. “Irish teenagers are succeeding in school but struggling in life,” the reporter Kate Carolan baldly declares on Morning Ireland (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays), summing up the findings of a Unicef report that teens here are among the least happy in high-income countries.
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4 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mick Heaney
It’s a week when the airwaves are awash with talk of people in traditional garb, be it men in cassocks or women in skorts. But while the robes worn by cardinals at the papal conclave signify the wearers’ lofty status, the hybrid garment foisted on camogie players only underscores how overlooked and undervalued they feel, as Andrea Gilligan hears on Lunchtime Live (Newstalk, weekdays).
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4 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mick Heaney
The announcement by Joe Duffy that he is to retire as host of Liveline after 27 years may have caught listeners by surprise, but signs that he might leave RTÉ Radio 1’s phone-in show have been there for some time. With the 69-year old broadcaster’s contract due to expire this summer, there had long been chatter – including on his own programme – about the possibility or indeed viability of an extension: his €351,000 salary made him the highest paid person at cash-strapped RTÉ in 2023.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Mick Heaney
It’s a phenomenon that often manifests itself as an irritating noise in the background, attracting complaints from people who hear it. So it seems fitting that Liveline (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) should be covering the nuisance caused by drones – game recognises game and all that.
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