Hours after The Currency launched at the end of September, a missive was dispatched to producers at Communicorp, the country’s largest commercial radio group, prohibiting staff and contributors to this platform from appearing on Communicorp stations including Newstalk and Today FM. The ban, imposed on the stated grounds that The Currency was a competitor platform, quickly became a lightning rod for controversy, with all the main political parties immediately calling for it to be rescinded. And days before it was due to be discussed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland,  Communicorp chief executive Adrian Serle stated that “programming teams in…

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