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Daragh MacLoughlin wins solo class in World’s Toughest Row after reaching Antigua in the Caribbean

About 769,000 households or businesses paid for a licence in 2025 – a drop of more than 250,000 on the 2019 figure

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025 winner is set to be announced in March

Kieran McCarthy talks about his experience and gives tips for those who can’t afford a retrofit

The former Late Late Show host on his exit from London, his need for therapy after his RTÉ downfall and how his now wife shone during his darkest moment

Architect and part-time game designer behind The Great Hunger hopes game will educate more Americans on the famine

A number of young women express disquiet about reactions being monetised by content creator

Mari Hurley took up the role in August 2024 after a controversy over payments at the broadcaster

The early pioneers persevered through underfunding, inadequate transmitters and political pressure

European rapporteur on AI law is to lobby for ‘nudification’ app ban

Television: Medical documentary puts positive spin on our health service while patient stories are compelling and honest

Family of cyclist Josilaine Ribeiro have been ‘destroyed’ following her death, RTÉ programme hears

Golden Globes could bring further recognition that country’s talent pool has grown deeper

January 11th to 16th highlights: Industry returns; Room to Improve in Raheny; Neven’s in Northumberland; Any Given Day at CUH

But soaps, drama and news among most-watched programmes on RTÉ Player

The RTÉ presenter has a ‘jam-packed’ year in store, from Dancing with the Stars to her wedding in Italy

For a number of years he had a slot on Gay Byrne’s Late Late Show on RTÉ

Among promising titles are a book about France’s dark side and Jon Ronson’s exploration of multimillionaires searching for meaning in New England

Responsibilities were presumed to include reviving Irish, selling everything ‘from sausages to sweep tickets’, and providing a living for writers and musicians

Radio: On RTÉ, the Liveline host hears callers’ fears of sexually explicit AI, while Oliver Callan is discombobulated by an errant guest

Television: With three gimmicks in the latest UK series, the makers seem terrified of the blueprint going stale

Kidnapping the Strictly Come Dancing star for Dancing with the Stars has been a mixed blessing for Montrose

Some Lizzy veterans must have worried they’d slipped into the next world

Public broadcasters are under scrutiny like never before and even their legitimacy is being questioned

Television: Celebrity dancers have much to improve on, but this new season will clearly be entertaining

Jan 3rd-9th highlights: RTÉ favourites like Room to Improve return, BBC crime dramas reboot and streaming giants unleash big-budget programmes

A highly regarded figure in Irish media and literature, he had a distinguished 25-year career with RTÉ

For the RTÉ show’s new series, the architect and QS Claire Irwin renovated the Dublin home of Norita and Louis O’Donoghue

Radio: Guest host on Today show brings authority and solidity to Radio 1’s ragtag seasonal schedule

Television: Patrick Kielty exudes positivity in the face of impossible odds and vapid banter

On January 1st, 1926, Douglas Hyde opened 2RN above a small post office on Little Denmark Street in Dublin

There is a sense of being caught between outdated structures and increasingly unstable new realities

Everything you need to know about the glitzy RTÉ series as it returns to screens

Including Industry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Tip Toe, Lord of the Flies and Grown Ups

When ill with the flu, I craved quizzes, recovering animals and countryside homes

You have to credit McIlroy for possessing something all too rare in professional sport: a moral compass

Ming Ming and Ping Ping drew 400,000 visitors over 100-day visit in 1986 – but Chinese officials declined Late Late appearance

President met former Chilean dictator on controversial 1995 South American tour

The biggest show of the year, Adolescence, became so huge that it fuelled a moral panic, but the best stuff was on the little-watched Apple TV

After a seismic year of poaching presenters and refreshing rosters, Ireland’s revamped stations can’t ignore the shift online