RTÉ to televise eight live games across National Football and Hurling Leagues
RTÉ's live league coverage kicks off with Galway v Armagh in Salthill on January 25th
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Pat Kenny’s outrage at imaginary injustices raises his show to jaw-dropping heights
Radio: The veteran presenter grows ever more outraged by imaginary injustices as he highlights potential shortcomings of the new builders’ register
Meghan Markle’s lifestyle tips, plus other TV for your glazed-but-happy eyes in 2025: ‘One must be firm with one’s butler’
Including Severance, White Lotus, The Studio, Poker Face, Stranger Things and Black Mirror
Doireann Garrihy: ‘I was a big kid. It’s sad when I think back. I think I made jokes to get attention’
Recently married Dancing with the Stars co-host has learned to tread carefully when it comes to putting her life online
Toy Show and sport top list of most-watched TV of 2024. But where is the comedy and drama?
Festive Late Late event was the only non-sport programme in the top 10, with I’m a Celebrity and the Eurovision Song Contest among the shows to improve their rankings last year
Winter wedge issue: On Oliver Callan, icy weather is one of Ireland’s ever-growing urban-rural divides
Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’
Choice Music Prize: Kneecap and Fontaines DC among shortlisted nominees for Irish album of the year
The RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024 is set to be announced in March
Room to Improve review: Dermot Bannon’s fancy pants design runs into a client’s wish for a lovable and liveable home
Television: Room To Improve turns an everyday makeover project into an engaging story and tells it with passion and empathy
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
January 5th-10th – including Dancing with the Stars, Michael Lynn: The Fugitive and Neven’s Portuguese Food Trails
Ireland weather update: Met Éireann forecasts ‘significant snowfall’ as orange warnings extended to 10 counties
Forecaster predicts sub-zero temperatures and ‘very disruptive and impactful’ over coming weekend
‘It’s the first compliment I’ve got in 48 years.’ David O’Doherty and his dad’s familial jam isn’t overly sweet
David O’Doherty and His Dad Do Jazz is joyful, offbeat radio that’s perfect for any season
Ireland in the 1980s was backward, poor and stagnant. Some politicians want to bring us back there
Those who challenged the existing consensus were routinely condemned as Thatcherite by commentators and union leaders who were comfortable with the failed status quo
Dancing with the Stars 2025: Who are the contestants, when is it on and more
Everything you need to know about RTÉ’s new season of the competition for the glitterball trophy
Nanci Griffith: From a Distance review – harrowing account of the country music star’s life that ended in isolation and alcoholism
Television review: While Nanci Griffith's final years were tragic, there are many heartwarming aspects to the story of a singer with low self-esteem and a poetic air who found success in Ireland
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
December 29th-Jan 3rd – including The Traitors, Callan Kicks the Year, The Late Late NYE Show and Jools’ Annual Hootenanny
Miriam Lord’s review of the year: Shock resignations, ruptured relations and an over-eager new Taoiseach
A year of change heralds a future of more of the same
TV in 2025: 25 of the best new and returning shows to watch out for in the 12 months ahead
Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane – The strange blend of fact and fiction around one of the last Anglo-Irish eccentrics
Television: Much we think we know about the custodian of Slane Castle is conjured from thin air, as becomes clear in this absorbing documentary
Undocumented Irish still fighting for legal status in US as Donald Trump promises new crackdown
Former congressman Bruce Morrison says Irish who overstayed holiday visa waivers lose right to a defence if new president takes aggressive approach on illegal immigration
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special review: Unkillable comedy’s wit is as sharp as a mouthful of Brussels sprouts
Television: Brendan O’Carroll’s slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gags
Christmas TV and movie guide: the best shows and films to watch
December 24th-27th: including new Christmas specials of Doctor Who, Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey, and Wallace & Gromit
Journalists who were unlawfully spied on have ‘no doubt’ UK reporters are still targeted
Tribunal found PSNI and Metropolitan Police carried out covert surveillance on Belfast reporters Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey
Media regulator seeks consultant to review adequacy of public funding for RTÉ and TG4
Coimisiún na Meán wants report to examine broadcasters’ 2024 performances
A year of devastating climate firsts, a dispiriting outcome to Cop29 and elections where climate was off the radar
Ireland heard plenty of ‘eco rhetoric’ in 2024 but there was a clear sense that political leaders have not grasped the reality of the climate emergency
The Young Offenders Christmas Special review: Where’s Jock? Without him, Conor’s firearm foxer isn’t quite a cracker
Chris Walley’s charismatic tearaway is still in prison on drug charges, leaving his best pal, the Knocknaheeny scamp Conor, flying solo
When Claire Byrne confronts Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary on RTÉ, the atmosphere is seriously tetchy
Radio 1 host clashes with airline boss over high airfares, while Ray D’Arcy captures a frazzled festive atmosphere
GAA look to go it alone with proposal to buy out RTÉ's 50% stake in GAAGo
GAA confirm the media rights broadcasters for 2025 will remain unchanged
Culchiecore, bonkbusters, murder, more murder and Nationwide: What I’ve seen on TV in 2024
Patrick Freyne on the 2 Johnnies, Rivals, Say Nothing, Baby Reindeer and television trends of the past 12 months
So This Is Christmas review: Beautifully made but ultimately cheerless viewing – a glimmer of hope would have been nice
Television: We all know Christmas can be tough but this film lays it on with a trowel
Siobhán McSweeney of Derry Girls to host Irish version of The Traitors
‘The Irish have a charm and ability to deceive while smiling, which will make this version rather special,’ says McSweeney
RTÉ's Will Goodbody hired by AIB as head of external communications
Broadcaster’s business editor to take up role just before bank’s annual results announced in March
Christmas TV takes the Casablanca approach – rounding up the usual suspects
Ghost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creaky
Council to run the rule over Portobello house revival as Hugh Wallace deviates from the plan
Plus: Michael H Burke not sweating it over Ailesbury Road house price, Politico takes aim at ‘Europa Experience’ centres, and Fontaines DC are doing just nicely
Letters to the Editor, December 14th: On the Green effect, grief and the humble Brussels sprout
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