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Irish Independent
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Electric Picnic: Miriam O'Callaghan, Rosie O'Donnell and Nicola Tallant among those added to festival line-up for ‘Mindfield' stages
The 'arena of ideas' at Ireland's largest festival hosts, podcasting and comedy, will also feature Dara Ó Briain, David McWilliams and Nicola Tallant. The David McWilliams Podcast and Miriam O'Callaghan's Picnic Brunch will be on the line-up, alongside legendary music producer William Orbit in conversation, Róisín Ingle's The Women's Podcast and Nicola Tallant's Cocaine Cowboys. The six stages, which include Leviathan: Political Cabaret, Manifesto, Ah, Hear Podcast, The Theatre, The Word and An Puball Gaeilge, will host debating, podcasting, poetry and music throughout the weekend. Current affairs will be covered by The Group Chat from Virgin Media News, with Deirdre O'Kane and Emma Doran's Keep it Tight also on the line-up with Jenny Keane's Orgasm. In the hugely popular Seed Talks series, there will be talks on The History of Witchcraft with Lora O'Brien, the Science of Psychedelics with Dr David Luke and the Science of Intergenerational Trauma with Dr Jane Mulcahy. Other events on the programme include speed debating, a talk on the legacy of Éamon de Valera, a performance by Professor Luke O'Neill and his band The Metabollix and a voter registration drive by An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland's Electoral Commission. The Ah, Hear Podcast stage brings Unscripted with Niamh O'Connor, Guide to Parenting, Nicola Tallant's Cocaine Cowboys, Off The Ball and A Few Scoops hosted by Colm O'Regan and Aoife Grace Moore. Baleia Baleia Baleia from Portugal will be performing, along with musical acts like bbft, Scally and the Ballyboyz, Dimplestillskin and The Cranberries tribute act Zombie. Headliners like Hozier, Chappell Roan and Fatboy Slim are already on the festival line-up, with the largest festival in the country, which already sold out months in advance, taking place in Stradbally, Co Laois, from August 29 to 31. Top international acts like Becky Hill, Confidence Man, The Kooks and Lord Huron have been added to the line-up, while Eurovision fans who rated Estonia's entry 'Espresso Macchiato' will be able to see Tommy Cash on stage this summer, joined by last year's Dutch entry Joost. Other acts who will be taking to the stage include Conan Gray and Irish stars like Amble, Kingfishr, Bell X1, Maverick Sabre, The Academic and Aaron Rowe. Around 80,000 people are expected to descend on the 600-acre Stradbally Estate this summer, with a new wave of acts like Suki Waterhouse, Biig Piig, Maribou State, Montell and Barry Can't Swim to join them. Tickets for the 2025 festival completely sold out last August, just days after the 2024 event which featured Kylie Minogue, Noah Kahan, Calvin Harris, The Wolfe Tones, who drew a record-breaking crowd to the Electric Tent the year prior, and Kneecap.
ABC News
15-07-2025
- General
- ABC News
Exhumations begin in Ireland of mass grave of babies
The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway has begun. The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers which operated between 1925 and 1961. Laura Tchilinguirian spoke with Paul Quinn, a TV reporter with Virgin Media News Ireland.
Irish Daily Mirror
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Irish stars step out for opening night of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Irish stars stepped out for the opening night of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. The reinvention of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece is currently showing at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin. The show premiered almost 30 years ago and has now become the most successful dance theatre production of all time, creating new audiences and inspiring generations of young dancers. Dubliner Stephen Murray also dances in the show. On Tuesday night, Dancing with the Stars judge Arthur Gourounlian, model Thalia Heffernan, who brought her mam Susan Ebrill, FM104's Zeinab Elguzouli, Andrea Gilligan and Paul Quinn of Virgin Media News; as well as Laura Nolan, David O'Reilly and Katja Mia all stepped out for the opening night. First staged at Sadler's Wells in London in 1995, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake took the dance theatre world by storm, becoming the longest running full-length dance classic in the West End and on Broadway. It has since been performed across the globe, collecting over 30 international accolades including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards for Best Director of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.
The Irish Sun
01-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Richard Satchwell insisted he'd ‘never lay a finger' on wife Tina in various TV & radio interviews heard by murder trial
MURDER accused Richard Satchwell pledged to take a lie detector test to prove he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance, in a TV interview aired in court. And when directly asked by a reporter if he killed Tina, the truck driver, 58, insisted: 'I'd never lay a finger on her.' 4 Richard Satchwell spoke to journalists numerous times after Tina's disappearance Credit: Virgin Media News 4 A series of media interviews given by the accused were played to the court Credit: John Delea - The Sun Dublin 4 Asked by TV3's Paul Byrne on July 13, 2017 if he was innocent, he said: 'I am innocent, I've done nothing wrong' Credit: Virgin Media News Mr Satchwell Her decomposed remains were discovered by investigators Mr Satchwell spoke to journalists numerous times in the year after he reported that Tina And today Read more in News Asked by He added: 'My wife's going to turn back up or she's going to get in touch with the 'One way or another this will all come out and in time it will all prove that I've done nothing wrong. 'In every relationship, you know your partner. You know what you've been talking about and you feel you know what your partner would want you to do in certain circumstances. Most read in Irish News 'I went by what I thought my wife would want me to do. Whether they agree with the way I did it, that's up to them. I know my wife better than anybody, I know her better than I know myself, and I did what I genuinely thought was right. 'I've been with my wife for 28 years. In that 28 years I've never lifted a finger to her. 'I'D TAKE A LIE DETECTOR' 'I was brought up in a home, yes there were arguments between my mother and father, but never any violence. That's what I wanted for my wife, a good, loving marriage. 'I'd take a lie detector, my house has been searched without my knowledge. The Gardai found nothing untoward. We live on the Main Street, they can see the comings and goings, I don't know why people are being malicious.' Reporter Paul asked him in another interview on November 30, 2017: 'Did you kill Tina Satchwell?' Mr Satchwell replied: 'Never. I'd never lay a finger on her.' He also said: 'She's been my life since meeting her, even since before I spoke to her I knew I loved her. 'My dream came true. Since the day we got married, it's been one long honeymoon. Like that since the day I met her.' And he said of Christmas: 'If Tina's not there I'm not celebrating it. This Xmas won't be Xmas for me. 'I have never once in nearly 30 years of being together laid a finger on her. The most I've ever done is love the bones of her.' 'COULD NEVER LAY A FINGER ON MY WIFE' He was asked by Susan Keogh on Today FM, in a chat which aired on March 18, 2018, if he ever hurt Tina and he answered: 'I never would.' The presenter then asked if he killed Tina, and he replied: 'No. I could never lay a finger on my wife. No one has ever once seen a tiny bruise on her body.' Another interview played out today saw Mr Satchwell sobbing as he told RTE's Crimecall that his 'arms are open' when Tina wanted to return home. Speaking to the show, which aired on July 25, 2017, he said: 'It's been three months. Tina come home, nobody is mad at you. 'My arms are open, the pets are missing you. Even just ring the guards, everything will be alright.' Another interview with Neil Prendeville aired on Cork's Red FM on March 12, 2018 — nearly a year after Tina was reported missing. In it, Mr Satchwell said: 'She was a great woman. I've not got a bad word to say about her. 'She could have a flash temper, she could hit you, then she'd be crying apologising. The most thing I've ever done to her is hold her tight until she calmed down.' 'I HAVE STARTED PRAYING' Mr Prendeville spoke to him as Gardai were searching Mitchell's Woods, outside Castlemartyr in Cork, for any evidence which would help in their investigation. The host said he didn't believe Tina was alive and asked how he would feel if cops found a body. He said: 'I'd be an emotional wreck. Suicide, no suicide, even without suicide, I wouldn't last six months. All I can do is stay at home and wait for the phone to ring, hope. I don't go to church but I have started praying.' Asked if he was ever in jail, he replied: 'Yes, I was caught for social welfare. I was working while claiming social welfare 'I think I'd sooner be there than where I am now. I was there for a month, in Cork. 'She (Tina) didn't come up to see me, I asked her not to. It's not an environment I wanted her to be in. We spoke every night, five or ten minutes. I've never denied to anybody that I've been in prison.' Mr Satchwell also appeared on Ireland AM on TV3 on March 8, 2018, as the search in Mitchell's Wood was taking place. Asked by presenter Mark Cagney if he felt he was a suspect, he said: 'No. Now I feel I'm not. Anything the guards have asked for I'm providing. 'I THINK SHE PLANNED TO GO' 'When I visited our GP, I don't know if Tina had said anything to him, he told me I was right to give her the time before I went to the guards. I have to believe (she's still alive) because I'm not mentally strong enough to think the other. 'Mental illness is one of the things I won't talk about, within the family.' During a number of interviews for the programme, Mr Satchwell told reporter Barry Cummins: 'We were really upset after our parrot Peal died, we cried for weeks. We had an autopsy done. 'Then a parrot came up on the internet and we called it Valentine, because we bought it on Valentine's Day.' Speaking about the day Tina vanished, Mr Satchwell said he had been plastering the stairs when she came down and asked him to go to the shops in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. He told the show: 'I think she planned to go. 'I think it was playing in the back of her mind for a long time and something clicked that morning, I do.' 'I BUILT MY LIFE AROUND HER' Asked how he was feeling, he said: 'Lonely, very lonely, because I built my life around her. When that's gone, you've got nothing. 'I've never once in nearly 30 years of being together laid a finger on her. As far as I'm concerned my wife is out there somewhere and will come back. 'I truly believe that. Just get in touch. I believe there is somebody out there who does know where she is.' The 4 Mr Satchwell has pleaded not guilty to murdering Tina at their home in Cork Credit: Handout
BreakingNews.ie
01-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Jury watch footage of tearful Richard Satchwell appealing for wife Tina to come home
A jury have watched footage of a tearful Richard Satchwell making a televised appeal for his wife Tina to come home, telling her "Nobody is mad at you, just ring the guards, let people know you're alright", months after the State argues he murdered her and buried her in a shallow grave beneath their Cork home. The jury has now finished viewing a total of 14 video clips of the accused making media appeals and statements about his wife Tina's disappearance. Advertisement Mr Satchwell told 'TV3 News' viewers (now Virgin Media News) in July 2017 – four months after his wife disappeared – that he was "innocent of any wrongdoing", when asked whether he was an innocent man. The British truck driver also told the TV3 interviewer on that date: "One day my wife will turn back up or she will get in touch with gardaí, one way or another it will all come out and in time will prove I've done nothing wrong". The Leicester native also said on 'Cork's Red FM' in March 2018 that he had served time in prison for "what they call social welfare fraud" and that he would "sooner be in jail than where I am now". He said he asked his wife not to come to see him in Cork prison as it wasn't an environment he would like her to be in. The Central Criminal Court jury has heard that on March 24th, 2017, Mr Satchwell told gardaí that his wife had left their home four days earlier but that he had no concerns over her welfare, feeling she had left due to a deterioration in their relationship. Advertisement The accused formally reported Tina missing the following May but her body was not discovered for over six years, when gardaí found her decomposed remains in a grave that had been dug underneath the stairs of her home. In her opening address on Tuesday, Gerardine Small SC, prosecuting, told the jury that after the body was recovered, Mr Satchwell told gardai that he lost his footing and fell to the ground when his wife tried to stab him with a chisel. He told detectives that he held her weight off with a belt but that in a matter of seconds, she was dead in his arms. Mr Satchwell (58), with an address at Grattan Street, Youghal, Co Cork has pleaded not guilty to murdering his 45-year-old wife Tina Satchwell – née Dingivan – at that address between March 19th and March 20th, 2017, both dates inclusive. The first media interview played today was with Paul Byrne from TV3 News on July 14th, 2017, where Mr Satchwell said he knew his wife better than anybody, adding: "I probably know her better than myself." Advertisement In the interview, the accused said he had been with his wife for 28 years and "never lifted a finger to her" during that time. He added: "If I was asked to take a lie detector test I'd take one, my house was searched with my knowledge and gardai didn't find anything to suggest anything untoward". The next interview was a media appeal from RTÉ's Crimecall broadcast on July 25th, 2017, where Mr Satchwell can be seen crying and appealing for Tina to come home. "Nobody is mad at you, the pets are missing you, just ring the guards, let people know you're alright," he said. Another interview played to the jury was with TV3 News from November 20, 2017, where the accused said Tina had "been my life since meeting her". Advertisement Asked by interviewer Paul Byrne what he had to say to those who believed he may have harmed his wife in some way, the accused replied: "Never once in 30 years that we have been together have I laid a finger on her, most I've done is loving the bones off her". When asked if he had killed Tina, Mr Satchwell said he had "never laid a finger" on her. In footage from Prime Time Investigates broadcast on RTÉ on January 25th, 2018, Mr Satchwell showed interviewer Barry Cummins a bottle of Cava he had bought for his and Tina's 25th wedding anniversary, some months previously, which was unopened. "It's like I'm walking outside looking in on my old life, it's totally heartbreaking," remarked the accused. Advertisement Mr Satchwell can also be seen in the television interview sitting in a car with Mr Cummins and showing him where he had proposed to Tina in Youghal in October 1989. Asked whether he had any idea what had happened on the day Tina went missing in March 2017, Mr Satchwell said: "She obviously felt she needed a break, to get her thoughts together, to get her head straight". The accused was asked what it was like being in Youghal with Tina missing and Mr Satchwell described it as "very lonely because I've built my life around her and when that's gone I have nothing". He remarked that he found the press very misleading and that they "twist everything". Mr Satchwell said he did not believe Tina was dead and he "truly believed" she was out there somewhere and could be found. When asked what his message to Tina was, Mr Satchwell said: "I want you to get in touch...I believe somebody out there that does know where she is because she didn't get up and leave without some help from somebody". The accused went on to say: "If someone tried attacking her she would pick the nearest thing up and whack them with it. That the type of person she is, she wouldn't be a pushover". The next media interview played to the jury was with TV3 News on March 7th, 2018 at Mitchell's Wood in Castlemartyr, when a garda search was taking place. Asked how difficult it was to go to the woods that day, Mr Satchwell said he felt sick driving down from Youghal that morning and he was "praying and hoping" the search came to nothing. When asked about the "one thing" that was "racing through" his mind, Mr Satchwell said that his wife "could be behind them barriers". In another media interview on Ireland AM on March 8th, 2018, the accused said he didn't feel he was a suspect in his wife's disappearance and that he believed Tina was still alive. "I have to as I'm not strong enough to go down the other". Mr Satchwell said any person who had helped his wife get out of Youghal should be "ashamed" of themselves. He said he thought someone had helped Tina as he could not see any way she could have gotten away from Youghal. In another radio interview on CRY104FM in Youghal from March 10th, 2018, the accused said there was "no way" anyone would lay a finger on his wife "without walking away with some damage". He said if his wife walked in the door he would throw his arms around her and "collapse on the floor with relief". Asked about his feelings should the "worst case scenario" happen and he found out Tina "had passed", Mr Satchwell said: "I'd be no more, I'd be no good to anybody". In an interview with Neil Prendeville on Red FM in Cork on March 12th, 2018, the accused said if Tina came home his arms would go around her, there would be tears and he would make her a cup of tea, make sure she wasn't hungry, let her take a bath and then contact the gardaí and her family. Ireland Gardaí suspicious 'something untoward' happened to... Read More He said he would be an "emotional wreck" if he was told "something" turned up in Mitchell's Wood. In another interview on Prime Time on March 16th, 2018, Mr Satchwell said he believed there was "somebody out there knows where she is". Commenting on the search at Mitchell's Wood, the accused said Tina wouldn't even "go near a strange woods with me". He went on to say his arms had only ever held Tina in a loving manner. He said every special occasion that arose he bought presents and cards "and they are there to open when she comes back". The trial continues on Tuesday before Mr Justice Paul McDermott and a jury of five men and seven women.
