Louise Byrne

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598 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Sep

Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 2.

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

But no, it's just and it's something uh it's nice to have those big T V moments that bring people together, like

Like that doesn't really happen anymore.

When you think back even like ten, fifteen years ago, you had the likes of love hate that kind of brought everyone together and everyone was speaking about it and you haven't really had that.

So I think the traitor it's nice to kind of have something that's inconsequential to talk about for a change.

Little bit.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper · RTE Requires €65m Bailout In 2028, Broadcaster Says · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, thankfully they're not in those committees as they're not as testy as they used to be.

But that committee at the Public Accounts Committee today was touchy enough at times.

And what the Public Accounts Committee were looking to speak to Kevin Backers, to Director General and some other senior managers in RTE about was

was their future financing of the national broadcaster ahead of them coming under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

And I think the big question, Matt, that was left really unanswered was what happens to RTE's finances once...

this ring-fenced multi-annual deal that was put in place by then media minister Catherine Martin in the summer of 2024 runs out.

So under that agreement RTE is guaranteed €725 million between 2025 and 2027 and essentially what happens through that is

They are given a set amount of funding every year.

So for this year, for example, it's 225 million euro and a certain amount of that comes from the licence fee with the government topping it up.

So the top up this year.

is in the region, they think, of just under €55 million.

And members of the PAC were asking Kevin Backers what happens when this deal runs out in 2027.

What Kevin Backers was saying is that he would strongly call for and strongly appeal

for the government to put that arrangement back in place.

However, media minister Patrick O'Donovan told me in January that under no circumstances was that going to happen.

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