There are many questions left unanswered even four years after state security forces shot and killed Michael Dwyer of County Tipperary and two other men said to be plotting the assassination of Colombian president Evo Morales and other terrorizing acts.  Inver Films, a Mayo based company,  has released a documentary called ‘Bolivian Escapade’ that will air tonight at 10 on a Qatar based tv station to address and look deeper into the glaring question marks surrounding the incident.  

The Dingle International Film Festival 2013 is set to prove once again that it has something for everyone. Throughout the weekend the town will be filled with filmmakers, writers, animators, artists and Fungi followers  sampling the best that cinema has to offer. This boutique festival now in its seventh year promises to the best ever.

A radio documentary has heard two Magdalene Laundry nuns defend the actions of the religious orders who ran the infamous institutions.

A new teaser trailer has been released for a documentary about One Direction on concert. The documentary, which will be in 3D, is titled “1D3D” and scheduled to be released August 30, 2013.

The Irish documentary ‘The Summit’ has won a prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

A new interactive web documentary produced by graduate students in Dublin examines two centuries of people leaving Ireland.

FrackNation, the controversial film supportive of  fracking, has secured a television deal and will premiere January 22, 2013 on AXS TV., the cable channel owned by billionaire Mark Cuban.

Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese has signed on to make a HBO documentary on the of 42nd president of the US, Bill Clinton.

Ready for some real Christmas magic? Make sure to catch the new documentary about boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s visit to Ireland.

A new Irish documentary has just made the 2013 Oscars shortlist. 'Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God' has been shortlisted in the Best Documentary Feature lineup.

A new RTE radio series will examine how Irish newspapers abroad are trying to keep Irish communities connected.

A symphysiotomy is a painful surgical procedure that was used in maternity hospitals across Ireland in the 20th century. Often performed in the place of a Caesarean section, symphysiotomies involved breaking the woman’s pelvis during childbirth.

The new RTÉ television series ‘The Lost Village’ is looking for anyone with information pertaining to the 13 families evicted from their homes in the small Donegal village of Big Mountain Productions are seeking out this information as part of a four-part bi-lingual series “The Lost Village”. The series will be aired on Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTE, during Seachtain na Gaeilge in March 2013.

DOC NYC, the premier documentary festival in New York City, is offering two great films, one by an Irish director and another about Ethel Kennedy.

A new Irish four-part documentary series “Green is the Colour” examines the history of Irish football and the national soccer team.

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Eighty years ago today, an intrepid photographer created the iconic image of eleven ironworkers, casually dangling their feet hundreds of feet above 5th Avenue while breaking for lunch on an exposed steel beam they had likely riveted into the framework of the rising 30 Rockefeller Center Many, if not most, of these rugged individuals were almost certainly Irish AmericansAnd despite the fact that the builders anticipated one laborer's death for every ten floors constructed, the men on the beam were happy to be high in the sky when about a third of their fellow citizens down below were out of work in Depression-era New YorkIrish Filmmaker Seán Ó Cualáin is among the many who have fallen under this picture's spell, investing much of his past five years exploring it in a nearly finished documentary READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/irish-tv-boss-in-hot-water-over-notorious-rte-documentary-mission-to-prey-157188465.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/irish-tv-boss-in-hot-water-over-notorious-rte-documentary-mission-to-prey-157188465.html Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:15:24 PDT
The chairman of Irish State broadcaster RTÉ, Tom Savage, is facing a tabloid grilling in Ireland over his role as head of Dublin-based the Communication Clinic and that company's involvement in the broadcaster's ill-fated 'Mission to Prey' documentaryThe TV boss is now also facing increased pressure to explain how his leadership of the TV station does not pose a direct conflict of interest with his directorship at The Communication Clinic - a public relations outfit that has gained a reputation as the go-to PR firm for Irish politicians and political parties since its foundation in 2004The firm, which also specializes in political speechwriting and 'spin' control is owned by Savage and his wife, Terry ProneProne is something of a celebrity in her own right: an outspoken Irish media commentator and television critic seldom off Irish airwaves, while the couple's son is a DJ for TodayFM READ MORE ]]>