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TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week

August 16th-21st highlights: including Ludwig, The Healy-Raes: Blood Sweat & Tears, and The Rose of Tralee

Oliver Callan learns about keening: ‘They’d pull out hair, rip clothes, reveal their breasts’

Radio: Haunting radio on RTÉ, while Anton Savage’s guest warns against retinal burns and Claire Brock talks soft-launches

RTÉ dominates airwaves despite Radio 1 rescheduling losses, figures show

Morning Ireland remains country’s most listened to radio programme an average of 457,000 people tuning in each day

Broadcaster Sarah Mulkerrins: ‘When I left Ireland, I didn’t think I’d ever get to work on GAA, so it’s a bonus’

From Athenry to the BBC, sports broadcaster Mulkerrins talks ambition, freelance life and capturing the emotion of sport’s biggest moments

A Day in May review: A celebration of a joyful referendum with a bitter aftertaste

Television: A poignant look back at the 2015 marriage equality referendum – and a heartfelt homage to journalist-turned-LGBTQ rights campaigner Charlie Bird

In Time – Dónal Lunny review: Intense portrait of an enigmatic folk artist waylaid by tragedy

Television: Influential musician became ill during the making of In Time, and while this is not addressed on screen, a deep ennui hangs over the film

TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week

Highlights include In Time, Van der Valk and A Day in May

‘I come from a very flat part of the UK. A tree is an event. So my favourite place is Ireland’

RTÉ Concert Orchestra general manager Alex Walden on connecting with an audience, receiving his first guitar and living on in your descendants

RTÉ announces date for The Traitors Ireland second season

The hit RTÉ reality TV show will return at the end of the month

How many times a day do people fart? Yes, you’re listening to the Seán Moncrieff show

Radio: Newstalk host doubles down on his fondness for gossip, while on Radio 1, Oliver Callan hears a ‘bull only’ story

Sexual assaults of women and children on trains among incidents reported to Irish Rail

Department of Transport said it was ‘actively progressing’ work to establish a transport security force

Man banned from RTÉ Cork allegedly breaches order

Shane Matthews (47) had been charged with engaging in threatening behaviour last month

Christian Brothers says it settles most claims ‘without the stress of a court appearance’

Congregation adopted controversial legal strategy in response to man’s allegation he was sexually abused by former member

Creedon’s Musical Atlas of Ireland on RTÉ One: Amiable charm despite moment of cringe

Quibbles aside, John Creedon is an engaging figure attempting something ambitious in this Irish documentary with big ideas

TV guide: The return of Ted Lasso, and the other best new shows to watch this week

Ted Lasso returns, while Celebrity Hunted, The Salisbury Poisonings and Possession among other highlights

As soon as the hooter sounded in Croke Park, the story was no longer about football

Mayo’s joyous All-Ireland win was also about roots and identity and a rebuttal of the past

Defence Forces chief faces discovery requests over alleged sex assault and charge against corporal

Judge-led tribunal seeks records on separate cases for its inquiry into complaints of abuse

The news learned to follow us everywhere. No wonder we are hiding from it

Many people no longer feel they have control over when they read the news as outlets chase engagement

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

Highlights include In the Opinion of the Censor, The Rapture, Ramy and The Irish Question

‘They described me as a threat to national security’: Vincent Kearney on being tracked by MI5

Veteran journalist heard from sources after spy revelations that he ‘might as well have been a tout’

Gay Byrne was the first big beast broadcaster. Claire Byrne was the last

Now we’re in the era of big beast bean counters

Roz Purcell: ‘When I was younger I was fine with people looking at me. But I have grown to hate it’

The Tipperary broadcaster and author knows how to captivate an audience. Just married and settling into her radio role on 2FM, she’s figuring out which new challenges to tackle

Pat Donlon, first female director of a national institution in Ireland, dies aged 83

Former National Library of Ireland chief ‘spearheaded’ a number of projects during her time in post, daughter says

All signs point to Budget 2027 not having much room to manoeuvre

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Unlike Joe Duffy, Kieran Cuddihy doesn’t ramp up the drama on Liveline

Radio: Presenter takes low-key yet effective approach to traumatic tales, while Morning Ireland hosts shattering story

Testimony on RTÉ One: Why didn’t Ireland do more to help victims of Magdalene laundries?

Television: Aoife Kelleher’s film hums with a taut, sustained rage as it chronicles the years of thankless, thwarted work by campaigners

RTÉ spent €8.5m on redundancy packages for 67 people in 2025

‘Exit costs’ for 67 people accepted for scheme were €8.5m, with 30 roles ‘suppressed’, broadcaster’s annual report shows

RTÉ’s top 10 highest earners in 2025 included nine members of senior management

Former radio presenter Claire Byrne is the only on-air talent to feature in top 10 highest paid staff last year

World Cup ruminations

RTÉ’s coverage, refereeing the final, and the famous photo of Messi and baby Yamal

Building Ireland on RTÉ One: Exploring an Irish town ripe for rediscovery

Television: Athlone is a place ripe for discovery - a mission undertaken in this very watchable episode

Traitors Ireland refused permission to film new series at ‘archaeologically sensitive’ sites in Meath

‘Misrepresenting the monument for entertainment risks undermining our educational remit’, says OPW

RTÉ crime drama Kin to return for third series in 2027

Broadcaster releases details about the much-awaited comeback of the hit Dublin gangster show as part of its upcoming drama slate

End of an era for ITV could have implications for Irish viewers

More than 70 years after its founding, the UK’s commercial broadcaster has been acquired by a US giant

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

Highlights include The Crow Girl, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide and Testimony

Heads should roll at Irish Rail

There must be repercussions for writing off €50 million of taxpayers’ money

Bill Kenneally victim: ‘He said if I told anyone, he had the pictures to show I enjoyed it’

A chance discovery that his childhood abuser still had access to boys led Jason Clancy to make a decision that would lead to justice but also a personally difficult journey

Trinity’s Treasures with Ruth Negga on RTÉ One: Why restrict such a good idea to just one college?

Television: With all the learning and accomplishments of Irish institutions RTÉ has – presumably for budgetary reasons – limited its scope here to Trinity College

Going Gone – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Irish go-go dancing

Plus: Diplomacy requires envoys of bad luck to avoid Spain’s and Argentina’s embassies on Sunday

What to expect from Aughinish Alumina report and the call to ban e-scooters

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Mike Hanrahan of Stockton’s Wing: ‘RTÉ abandoned writers. It’s unconscionable’

The musician on songwriting, shape-shifting, career turnabouts and staying curious

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