"By and large, farmers are decent, honest, hardworking people, who want to do right by future generations. With progressive, visionary leadership they could be nature and climate champions." But that leadership is absent. My piece in today's @IrishTimes https://t.co/Bm4oRKK7l3

“If it is going to change things, it has to change them well. We’ve heard enough from people who clearly don’t know what they’re doing in RTÉ. It’s time to listen to the people – the creative people – who do,” @UnaMullally @irishtimes [€]

“I don’t think any of us at RTÉ have any boasting left in us after the last few weeks. But I am still, after everything, proud of the work we do and the contribution we make to public service broadcasting,” Kevin Brew @irishtimes

“Tubridy repeated over and over on Tuesday that he wants to go back to that ‘great old place’. He wants to be part of the catharsis. He may come to regret hitching his wagon to Noel Kelly’s,” ⁦@jenoconnell⁩ ⁦@IrishTimes⁩

Great read by @lisatk: I was a writer on Toy Show the Musical. It has been a weird time

RTÉ was looking for a warehouse for the Toy Show musical set while TG4 was at the Oscars via @irishtimesoped

“Two weeks into the RTÉ crisis over secret payments, the organisation is still faffing about looking for the first aid kit. With every day it is spinning further out of control in a catastrophic doom loop of damning revelations,” @jenoconnell @irishtimes

Justine McCarthy: The next time committee members make snide remarks about RTÉ managers taking the “hubby” on foreign trips, they might stop and think that, if they had done their job in the first place, matters might not have reached this sorry pass. https://t.co/r5Q4bqNigZ

What do university performance rankings really mean? And should Ireland be chasing them at all? Interesting explainer on what those sought-after university rankings show us

"We just need to zoom out. The greatest marketing win in Ireland in recent years was the Wild Atlantic Way. Nobody built anything, it was just about connecting the dots" - @UnaMullally has a big idea for Dublin's O'Connell Street

Great points here by @jenoconnell. People constantly spin the need for more hotels as a binary choice (more hotels = less housing/art)…until they need to book a room and are shocked by the price. These things should run hand in hand with a bit of vision and strategy.

Deep dive by @CliffTaylorIT into RTÉ’s Bosco accounting is well worth a read

Frank McDonald: Dublin’s runaway growth is bad for the rest of the country, and worse for Dublin via @IrishTimesOpEd

Noel Kelly: Who is the behind-the-scenes agent, seen as RTÉ's ‘real director general’? https://t.co/3FlQKDeTEx

Dublin hotel prices in “the realms of the utterly fantastical,” writes @jenoconnell ⁦@IrishTimes⁩, adding “That’s where they seem to have been hovering in a semi-permanent state of suspension for some time now.”

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"While Irish people voted overwhelmingly in support of marriage equality, we still have a long way to go" Wrote about the importance of #Pride for @IrishTimesOpEd today. 👉 https://t.co/dkbcC8V405 Thanks to @jenoconnell for having me! #Pride2023

“The chasm in the response to the two events almost a week apart – the contrast in the level of public interest; the resources offered to the rescue teams; the desire to know more about the victims and the circumstances – was stark,” @jenoconnell

With my brilliant colleague @davidmcw and the fantastic @janabakunina @dalkeybookfest for our talk last night on the world at a tipping point. We're on day two already

And we’re off again! Listen to the Land happening right now at the Seafront @ManchanMagan and @jenoconnell kicking off Day 2 ✨

Loved this - what a panel for my first Dalkey 2023 event. More to come for the next three days