How we checked Newstalk
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 1 thing we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Newstalk is Ireland's national speech station, on air from Dublin since 2002 and part of Bauer Media Audio Ireland. There is essentially no music: the day is built out of news, interviews, current affairs, business, technology, sport and history. In February 2026 it made the biggest schedule change in its history, putting Anton Savage alone in the breakfast chair, handing mid-morning to Claire Byrne and moving Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman to drivetime, with Pat Kenny taking a new weekend slot the following month. Roughly 855,000 people listen in a week.
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
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Contact route
A contact page with a section headed "To contact a show" carrying a freephone number, a radio department mailbox, an SMS text shortcode with its cost stated, a WhatsApp number and an on-air hashtag; a separate station switchboard section; a complaints mailbox and postal route with a published complaints procedure; a postal address in Dublin.
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Newstalk | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.newstalk.com/contact
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Newstalk | 2026 |
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Music
News and talk, not a music station
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
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Language
English
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
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Kind
talk, live
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
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Where
Dublin, Ireland, 106 to 108 FM across the country, also on DAB+
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
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On air
Anton Savage fronts Newstalk Breakfast, Claire Byrne mid-morning, Andrea Gilligan Lunchtime Live, Seán Moncrieff The Moncrieff Show, Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman The Hard Shoulder, Pat Kenny weekends, Jess Kelly Tech Talk, John Duggan Off The Ball, Clare McKenna Alive and Kicking
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
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Programmes
Newstalk Breakfast, The Claire Byrne Show, Lunchtime Live, The Moncrieff Show, The Hard Shoulder, Off The Ball, Breakfast Briefing, Breakfast Business, The Pat Kenny Show, Down To Business, Tech Talk, The Home Show, Screentime, Alive and Kicking, Futureproof, Talking History
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Bauer Media Audio Ireland, the station's owner | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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en
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Language was blank. Newstalk is Ireland's national English-language speech station, and every show in the current schedule published by its owner, Bauer Media Audio Ireland, is presented in English. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The freephone, switchboard, WhatsApp and shortcode numbers, the mailboxes and the Dublin address; also the advertising mailbox, the parent group's media-queries mailbox, the SMS-competition mailbox at the parent group, and six named staff mailboxes of which two sit at the parent group | Never publish numbers, mailboxes or addresses; the advertising, press and parent-group routes are not listener routes, and named individuals' mailboxes are not a station switchboard.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Newstalk — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.newstalk.com/