Jobs, jobs, jobs...
Monday, 18 Oct 2010After last week's show on entrepreneurship a number of viewers contacted us looking for information on the jobs some audience members said they had available at their companies.
The list below is a number of the responses we received when we put these enquiries to our audience. They include vacancies for roles as diverse as operating theatre nurses and paddywagon bus drivers.
We hope they're some benefit. Many thanks to those who got in touch....
[Read More]Our future
Monday, 18 Oct 2010Tonight The Frontline is about Ireland's Future - when (hopefully) the anger has subsided, the banks have been rescued, the deficit has been reduced and the unemployment lines have shrunk what will be the lessons from this crisis? Is it a question of putting the petrol back in the engine and enjoying the ride once more? Or do we need to become a fundamentally different type of country and if so, how?
[Read More]Entrepreneurship and Ireland
Monday, 11 Oct 2010Tonight we're on earlier than usual with a special edition about entrepeneurs, the challenges they face and how we can use their energy to get us out of this mess. We'll be joined by Ray Nolan, who is often cited as Ireland's number one dotcom entrepeneur. When his "hostelworld.com" business was sold in 2009 it had generated more than $500m return for shareholders on just $150k invested.
[Read More]Finances and fares
Monday, 04 Oct 2010On tonight's show we'll be discussing economic matters once again.
Various Sunday newspapers speculated about the government looking to find €4bn of cuts, we ask where that may be found.
In studio we'll have Dan Boyle of the Green Party, Dan O'Brien, economics editor of The Irish Times and Blair Horan of the CPSU, amongst others.
[Read More]Tonight's show
Monday, 27 Sep 2010On the show tonight we'll have Government Chief Whip, John Curran, Fine Gael's James Reilly, former Green Party TD Trevor Sargent and Labour's Pat Rabitte. They'll be discussing the current political, financial and social situation in the country and talking about what their party is doing to improve things.
Undoubtedly the on-going issue regarding Dáil pairings and the Tánaiste's planned trip to the US will arise.
Tune in at the usual time, 1035pm RTÉ One.
First programme of a new season...
Monday, 20 Sep 2010Last show of the season; A look-back...
Monday, 12 Jul 2010Tonight: The Family
Monday, 05 Jul 2010The vast majority of us have grown up in a family, but what exactly does "family" mean these days? Is a child better off with two parents? Does it matter if the parents are of the same sex? And what if those parents are drug addicts, alcoholics or just bad, neglectful parents - should the state have the right to take the children into care or is a child's best interests always served by being with its "natural" family
[Read More]The travelling community and lifestyle
Monday, 28 Jun 2010Since Pat Kenny invited people to take part in a special programme on travellers we've been inundated with callers and emailers wanting to be in studio tonight.
We've heard from travellers themselves who talk about the discrimination and poverty they experience but also about problems that need to be faced within the traveller community. We've heard from people who live in areas where they say they experience anti social behaviour and intimidation due to the presence of travellers but also from settled people who say relations between themselves and locally-based travellers is good and that there's no need for such a chasm to exist between the two communities.
[Read More]Taoiseach and tourism...
Monday, 21 Jun 2010Subcontractors; mad as hell and they want their money
Monday, 31 May 2010Tonight; Alzheimers services...
Monday, 24 May 2010Squeaky bum time...
Monday, 17 May 2010Alex Ferguson once described the last few weeks of the football season as "squeaky bum time" and that elegant phrase can be applied to what' s going on in Government right now. Brian Lenihan wants to hear by the end of this month from each Minister what cuts they're offering him for 2011 - he's putting on the pressure much earlier than usual which reflects the fact that he wants to know that these savings will really be delivered for the whole of next year.
The Minister has been clear that he's going to reduce the deficit by a further 3bn euro this year with 1bn of that coming from cuts in capital spending and 2bn from current spending cuts and/or tax increases. He has not been a fan of straightforward income tax rises so the 2bn is likely to come from measures to "broaden the tax base" - ie getting something from lower paid people who currently escape income tax and possibly from things like water charges or a new property tax.
[Read More]Aftershock
Monday, 10 May 2010Ireland's energy needs...
Monday, 26 Apr 2010Tonight we look at the energy and power needs of the country, and how the Government should plan to accommodate them. Should we be considering nuclear power? Wind energy? Continued reliance on oil? And how do we shape policy correctly around those aims?
In the most recent budget plans were put in place to introduce carbon taxes, some of which will come into force this coming Saturday. Minister Eamon Ryan will be in studio with Eddie Hobbs, author of Energise; How to Survive and Prosper in an Age of Scarcity, to discuss the merits and reasons for these policy decisions. We'll also have representatives of the Spirit of Ireland group, and wind-energy advocates in the audience.
Tune in, 2235, RTÉ One.
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