Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Mr Denis Naughten TD, has recently appointed two new directors, Ms Carol Bolger and Ms Deirdre Burns, to the Board of An Post and four new directors, Mr John Trethowan, Ms Lynne Crowther, Ms Theresa Donaldson and Ms Eileen Maher to the Board of EirGrid.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has issued just under €4.5million to new Irish TV and Radio programmes. The Sound and Vision Fund is supported through the Television Licence Fee. 88 new radio projects and 21 TV projects were awarded funding out of 287 applications, with applications coming from 16 different genre/format categories. In total the TV projects will receive just under €4million, while radio project will receive just over €500,000.

The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) have announced that it is to fund a new capital project for TG4. The project was launched by the Minister (Pat Rabbitte, T.D.) at TG4 Headquarters in Baile na hAbhann. The project receive €690,000 from DCENR. The Minister met with the board of TG4 and visited the state of the art studios in the Gaeltach region of Co. Galway.