Brexit Archives - Pat O'Mahony

You Couldn’t Make It Up: Its Long and Winding Road – Off Message 55

January 15, 2019

As the upcoming second series of You Couldn’t Make It Up, our comedy news panel show for Newstalk, fast approaches, it got me thinking about its long and treacherous journey thus far. Back on Newstalk for a second 10-week run from January 19th, it's been around the houses just to get this far. As we often describe it, it's the show that refuses to die, such has been its regular resurgences just when we think its pulse is no more.

Podcast 6: Michael O’Keeffe – Off Message 49

July 3, 2018

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The sixth media circus that is the Off Message podcast is with Michael O'Keeffe, CEO at the regulator of all Irish broadcasting - though thankfully not podcasts...not yet, anyway - the BAI, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. During our chat Michael revealed the BAI's origins in Ireland's murky pirate radio past and its planned next move into regulating parts of the online media wild west; the type of complaints they regularly get about programmes; where they get their funding and how some would rather not pay up; their wooing of London's international broadcasters pre-Brexit; the growing Irish appetite for podcasts - *applauds*; their take on diversity and plurality in Ireland's broadcast media; and more.

Home Is Where The Work Is – Off Message 38

June 27, 2017

Pat

The other day I had the most unexpected – and more than a little frightening – thought: I wondered if coming home was a mistake. I spent 11 years in London, returning to Dublin in 2009 when RTÉ commissioned a TV idea I'd had. It got me thinking about the pros and cons of my return.

The Waiting Game – Off Message 36

February 28, 2017

Pat

When freelancing work dries up (or at least goes eerily quiet for a while) you’re forced to get your pitching mojo back on. Which is where I’m at right now, partially because of Brexit, surprisingly enough. And whatever the outcomes it’s the waiting that kills you.