Dan O Neil and the Eisteddfod

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The BBC seem to be whipping up a mini-row over our columnist Dan O'Neil's piece yesterday about the Eisteddfod coming to Cardiff next year.
Dan, in his own unique style, talks about how non-Welsh speakers may view the event and takes quite a barbed look at the festival.
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I am told that Huw Llewellyn Davies, the BBC's experienced rugby pundit - and a high profile member of Cardiff's Welsh community - was interviewed this morning on the radio and was critical of the paper for publishing Dan's views.

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summertime

There is no harder time to work on a newspaper than in Summer.
Everyone is away on holiday, the world comes to a standstill ... and we've still got an 88 page newspaper to fill!
This is when good planning kicks in and I'm glad to say that the Echo is up there with the best when it comes to planning news, features and sport coverage.
So today, while there was hardly a mention of South Wales on the morning radio bulletins, we are still able to provide page after page of news from deaths on the M4, Charlotte Church's revelations in her new book and a great, great interview with the Cardiff couple who won $5m on the lottery.
And the first thing they are going to buy?

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