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RTÉ COULD not produce invoices for €400,000 of transactions dating from a period when key executives who refused to co-operate with a probe into its controversial 'barter account' were in charge at the station. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A FORMER RTÉ finance chief was paid '€70,000 a year' for a decade - on top of his own six-figure severance deal - to oversee a pension scheme before the arrangement ended last year, sources have told the Irish Mail on Sunday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS HE bounded up to the witness box in Dublin's High Court this week, Conor McGregor in his rush collided with a female journalist. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVERYTHING about the big screen's new Gladiator radiates future Hollywood icon. For a start, Paul Mescal makes women everywhere go dizzy: that handsome face with its aquiline nose and hooded blue eyes, his honed physique and brand of sensitive masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AN 80-YEAR-OLD man who believes his infant cousin was buried in a sewage tank at the Tuam mother and baby home is pleading to be allowed to give his DNA to prove the family link. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has confirmed a controversial €150,000 role that was created for the former head of current affairs in 2022 was made redundant within 18 months. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FORMER RTÉ head of strategy Rory Coveney - the 'driving force' behind the €2.3m loss-making Toy Show musical - was paid a year's salary, estimated to be around €200,000, as part of his deal to exit the national broadcaster. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Brazilian food delivery driver who bravely tackled the knifeman who was attacking schoolchildren in Dublin citycentre last month has returned to Rio de Janeiro on a one-way ticket. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GARDAÍ interviewed one young Irish woman with whom murderer Jozef Puska had several interactions on a dating website in the weeks before he savagely murdered Ashling Murphy, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NOSING into other people's homes has long been a favourite Irish pastime, whether it's browsing properties for sale online or just rubbernecking at houses from the street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RTÉ'S iconic Television Centre and other buildings at its Montrose campus could be repurposed for housing, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS WE enter the darkest part of the year, you might think there is not much blooming in the garden, but this could not be further from the truth. There are a surprising number of shrubs that produce flowers with a powerful perfume in the colder months. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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FOR rose lovers like me, this month marks the start of bareroot-planting season, which lasts until the end of March. While new varieties are launched every year, I urge you to consider old roses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NO SPRING is complete without a display of gorgeous, if frivolous, tulips. I can understand why people in 17th -century Netherlands lost their heads over these blooms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN Anya Lautenbach was young in Poland in the 1980s, growing your own was not a choice, it was a necessity. In a country still reeling from the aftermath of the Second World War, she was surrounded by people who were able to conjure something from nothing in the garden. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVEN in late October, there are still a few red raspberries clinging to our bushes - perfect for a snack. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE mother of an Irish cameraman killed by Russian forces at the start of the invasion of Ukraine said she is 'very happy' the French authorities are proceeding with a war crimes investigation into his death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVEN though we live on the edge of a town, surrounded by other houses, we are fortunate to have a treescape at the back of our garden. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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THE jewel on my allotment this year is a Crown Prince squash that has swollen to the size of a football and has beautiful bluish-green skin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

VIRGIN Media Television has dramatically pulled its new season of Grá ar an Trá - co-fronted by the presenter and election candidate Gráinne Seoige - which had been due to air tomorrow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE legislation governing the Tuam babies investigation, the Institutional Burials Act 2022, provides for the collection of DNA only from close relatives of the infants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHE died less than two months ago but already a selection of art works belonging to the late writer and feminist Nell McCafferty is to be auctioned in Dublin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ARED admiral butterfly perches on a plump purple flower on our buddleia. This year, sadly, it's the exception not the rule. Our 'butterfly bush' used to be heaving with winged insects. Now there are noticeably fewer. The wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has declared a 'Butterfly Emergency' after this year's annual citizen count revealed numbers have fallen by a third. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE former chair of the OPW who signed off on the controversial bike shelter and security hut projects boasted about living off expenses and enjoying la bonne vie in Paris - two years before enrolling himself in a posh Parisian school at the taxpayer's expense. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE will be cake, there will be tea, they'll be whiskey too, ham sandwiches and, of course, a corpse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AUTUMN FAVOURITES HERBS such as hyssop and oregano are in flower now, providing good forage, alongside native wildflowers such as common knapweed, tansy and red campion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT IS better to plant a patch of a nectar-rich species rather decline Buddleias than just one, as this means butterflies will have plenty to feed on. Plant in a sheltered, warm spot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AFFECTIONATELY now known as 'Delphinium Dad', Colin Parton planted a garden full of delphiniums as a tribute to his late wife Julie. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RTÉ's long-awaited redundancy programme is still expected to be introduced this year, the station's chief told staff this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AKITCHEN garden should be full all year round,' says Joe Lofthouse who is in charge of growing edibles at the RHS Harlow Carr garden. He adds: 'A lot of people think this time of year there isn't that much you can sow, but there is.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE back-to-school energy of September is here and it is just as evident in the garden as in the office. After the summer lull, it's time to return to work and get cracking on new projects. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BY THE end of summer, many fields across the country are alight with purple heather. Also known as 'ling', from the Norse word for 'light in weight', this evergreen shrub with tiny bell-like flowhoney ers is beautiful to behold. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was 2004 when Facebook arrived and it helped turbocharge the growth of social media. Today, it still remains the most popular social media platform globally, with over three billion users. As of the end of last year, 4.95 billion citizens of our planet use social media - up over 7% from the 4.65 billion using it in 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PUBLIC confidence in RTÉ has been shattered, with more than seven in 10 people (72%) saying they do not believe trust in the national broadcaster can be restored after damning revelations about secret top-ups to presenter Ryan Tubridy, an Irish Mail on Sunday/Amárach poll reveals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON THE eve of the annual Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, it is a cherished tradition that competitors and past winners play a shortened nine-hole course with their families.Last year, world No2 Rory McIlroy attended the joyful event with his toddler daughter Poppy and wife Erica Stoll, both sporting matching white jumpsuits with the Northern Irish golfer's name proudly emblazoned on their backs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHE was known by some during her time at RTÉ as 'Queen Dee', and the latest reports into what was allowed to come to pass at the State broadcaster during her reign appear to show why. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A REPORT released this week into the 'barter accounts' which enabled RTÉ executives to pay for business-class flights and luxury hotels and restaurants found they were 'hiding in plain sight' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]