Mary Lou Leads in Leaders Vote
Posted on Monday February 24, 2020

The Dáil met on Thursday (20 Feb) following the General Election 2020. Seán Ó Fearghaíl retained the Ceann Comhairle position, winning the chair against Denis Naughten. Micheal Martin was then nominated by the Fianna Fáil party to become Taoiseach, he received 41 votes in total, with 4 independent votes, from Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish and Micheal McNamara. Sinn Féin then nominated Mary Lou McDonald. She received the most votes of all 3 nominees on the day with 45 votes cast in her favour. The sitting Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, then received just 36 votes, one more than his parties 35 votes coming from Independent TD Seán Canney.

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All Ireland Draw\'s In Viewers
Posted on Wednesday September 04, 2019

The All Ireland Football clash against Dublin and Kerry ended in a Draw and drew a significant high audience for the end of the summer and RTÉ2 with 801,000 adult viewers. Top the top ten chart. This was follow by post match anaysis getting 637,000 viewers. The Rose of Tralee also brought in viewers for RTÉ One as the Autumn Seasons start. It had 472,000 adult viewers for its final night, taking up 3 of the top slots.

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Postal Price Increases
Posted on Tuesday February 18, 2020

An Post (The Irish National Postal Service) has increase the price of a postage stamp to €1.10 from €1, the last increase was in 2017 when it raised the price of the stamp from 72c. This is a 10% increase in the cost of sending a letter via the postal service in Ireland, while posting international will increase from €1.70 to €1.80. An Post suggest this is to help invest in future services.

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Gentleman Jack Returns
Posted on Saturday June 01, 2019

The BBC have announced that there popular period drama Gentleman Jack is to return in 2020 to BBC ONE and the BBC player. The series preiemered on BBC One in May 2019.

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Finding Joy\'s Audience
Posted on Wednesday February 19, 2020

RTÉ\'s comedy vehicle for Amy Huberman had an average audience of 295,000 viewers over the course of its run according to an Freedom of Information (FoI) request seen by CCÉ. The series started of with 427,000 viewers and saw it fall to 212,000 by episode 5. The six part series also saw an average of 16,500 viewers on RTÉ ONE +1, with repeats the same week getting 108,000 viewers (7,500 on +1). The series was repeated a year later getting an average of just 26,000 viewers on RTÉ2, with the +1 getting 2,000 viewer on average across the six episode. The Second series of Finding Joy is due to air on RTÉ ONE later this year.

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