Michael Healy-Rae, the Minister who sympathises with protesters, has his cake and eats it
Radio: John Cooke keeps the peace amid an on-air cacophony while, on The Hard Shoulder, Shane Coleman warns of anarchy
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Fuel price protesters say they will continue blockades despite claiming to have secured meeting
Nationwide disruption continues as petrol station forecourts run low on supply due to ongoing blockades
Intinní Áille – Beautiful Minds: A thoughtful RTÉ documentary on adult neurodivergence
Róisín Ní Thomáin explores whether she may be neurodivergent and hears from parents seeking support for autistic children
GAA: RTÉ to televise 35 live championship games this season
Championship coverage to begin with Armagh v Tyrone in the Ulster championship
RTÉ’s Kate McDonald: ‘At the moment, life and death feel quite close together’
RTÉ’s Clarity Correspondent on pregnancy, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and losing her wedding outfit
New National Concert Hall boss: ‘I hope to be here for the grand reopening’
New chief executive Nigel Flegg hopes the NCH’s long-planned redevelopment will start in 2028 and transform it into a ‘cultural mother ship’
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
April 5th-10th highlights, including Other Voices presents Foo Fighters; Intinní Áille – Beautiful Minds; Tracks & Trails and The Testaments
The Young Offenders on BBC One: Lowbrow gags sitting neatly between Benny Hill and Mrs Brown’s Boys
Television: The cast is outstanding, Cork looks great – what a tragedy this can’t aspire to more than old-school British sitcom in a Cork jersey
Irish-language Bluey actor had never heard of hit show before its turn as Gaeilge
Global smash Australian kids show to begin airing in Irish next week
Spending a penny has become very expensive indeed: Drivetime investigates €6m loos
Radio: Newstalk host Andrea Gilligan discusses a topic rarely aired in public, which is surely illuminating for male listeners
Tracy Clifford dropped from 2FM slot after 10-year run to make way for new line-up
In a statement, RTÉ said new schedule ‘reinforces 2FM’s position as the original and collective voice of young Ireland’
‘It was as if Louis Stewart and James Joyce were kindred spirits’
JoyceNotes was the great Irish guitarist’s only fully self-composed large-scale project. It’s finally being released, four decades after its first performance
TV guide: The best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 28th-April 3rd highlights, including Grace, Race Across the World, and Your Friends & Neighbors
My friend Michael Lyster met life on his own terms
Michael met life on his own terms, often swept up in the lightness of story telling without taking himself seriously
‘Magic in human form’: Michael Lyster funeral hears of a devoted family man
Former presenter of RTÉ’s The Sunday Game remembered as ‘one of the great broadcasters and one of the great people’
Seán Moran: GAA embraces new age of streaming as ‘biggest step change’ in match coverage
GAA+ has transformed viewing possibilities in little over an at-times-turbulent decade
Cheap European Homes on RTÉ One: A rare property show that doesn’t feel out of touch
Television: Maggie Molloy is down-to-earth and seems to appreciate that she is helping people meet a basic need in their life
Kate O’Connor wore a bit of a ‘meh’ expression after winning bronze, but we jumped for joy
Plus: We probably saw more of Michael Lyster in summer than we did our own families
Michael Lyster, long-time presenter of The Sunday Game, dies aged 71
Taoiseach Micheál Martin pays tribute to ’a moderniser of sport broadcasting’
Troy Parrott gets a shoutout during Zohran Mamdani’s St Patrick’s Day ‘hijack’
Visionary leader sought for Ireland’s AI office; RTÉ cranks up the hyperbole for Jessie Buckley; hairdressing classes for ‘warehoused’ prisoners
Francis Brennan: ‘I’ll die in Kerry – I’m not leaving Kerry’
The hotelier and TV star on 10 years with Dunnes Stores, life after The Park, and having no regrets
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 21st-27th highlights, including Crookhaven, Cheap European Homes, and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Welcome to Moore Street on RTÉ One: Unflinching documentary raises questions on how Dublin is administered
Television: Shuttered stalls, plunging footfall, drug addiction and lawlessness – it’s a wonder this wasn’t called Farewell to Moore Street
Patrick Freyne: From Fargo to The Den, these reboots were made for gawking
Everything gets a reboot these days, but it’s still surprising how many of them make for good telly
The difficult choices that could dramatically increase housing supply in Dublin
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Pat Kenny is refreshingly candid about his shift to weekends on Newstalk
Just as interesting are his views on the broader radio landscape and the role of what he calls ‘the talent’
Glenroe, Bosco, Mrs Brown’s Boys: The best and worst Irish TV shows ever made
Put your feet up as we bring you the best of Irish television – and then take a deep breath as we run through the worst
Six Nation rugby listening’s winners and losers
Man of the match for commentary has to go to Michael Corcoran
‘She just snapped out of it’: How recordings of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh are helping dementia patients
The Replay archive makes his All-Ireland senior finals commentary from 1985 to 2010 available online
Mark FitzGerald on housing crisis: Move Dublin Port and build 1,500 cost-rental apartments at RTÉ
Solving Dublin’s housing challenge will require difficult but unavoidable choices about public investment and land use
TV guide: the 10 best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars
I’m adopted. My brother is someone I’ve greatly looked up to and admired
Traffic reporter and independent producer Hugh Hick on his agreeability, what he expects to happen when he dies, and his hyper-fixation
Rick O’Shea appointed as new presenter of RTÉ’s arts and culture show Arena
O’Shea has been interim presenter since July 2025
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