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David McCullagh and Sinéad O'Carroll present coverage of the momentous 32-county general election, which took place 100 years ago. By using the contemporary grammar of a pulsating election results programme, these historic events will leap from the dry page into an imaginative and innovative screen format. Broadcast 100 years on from the 1918 election, Election [...]

Science has always strived to understand the riddles of the universe around us, but the biggest mystery of all lies under our nose and under our skin. Understanding human bodies and their transformations across our lifetime has fascinated scientists, medics and bio-engineers for centuries. GROWING UP LIVE supported by Science Foundation Ireland as part of [...]

Life After The Rising is a social history, exploring ordinary lives in extraordinary times. The vast majority of Irish citizens one hundred years ago were not preoccupied with the struggle for independence. They were not heroes dying for Ireland - simply citizens living in Ireland.

JAYO is a portrait of the life and career of GAA star Jason Sherlock. From experiencing racial abuse on the playing fields of his youth and starring for the Dubs in 1995 to travelling to South Africa to find out about his father’s life and murder, this journey of self-discovery blends seamlessly with evocative archive [...]

For 40 years, The Sunday Game has recorded the events and evolution of Gaelic Games and reflected the mood of the nation, creating countless controversies and water-cooler moments for Monday mornings. With the modern era of social media empowering the audience to have their say, The Sunday Game remains a weekly talking point in Irish [...]

Presenter Anne-Marie Tomchak explores how digital fingerprints are rapidly becoming the most valuable commodity in the world's economy. As the lines of public and private domains blur and technology forces society to abandon the notion of anonymity, Anne-Marie asks whether Big Data is selling Ireland short. In a one-off documentary produced for RTÉ, 'Cloud Control [...]

Weather Live is a RTÉ One live audience show exploring Ireland’s favourite obsession – the weather. Broadcast from a live studio hub at the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Weather Live broadcasts for three consecutive nights. Presenter Kathyrn Thomas is joined by a host of live studio guests and Met Éireann meteorologists, amongst them Gerald Fleming, Evelyn Cusack and Joanna [...]

From 2014-2016 - for three years in a row - the All Ireland Ladies Football final was contested between Dublin and Cork. And for three years in a row, Dublin were pipped at the post. The Dublin team had become the heartbreaking ‘nearly story’ of Ladies GAA. Then - at the beginning of 2017 - [...]

Réabhlóid GAA is a new one-hour documentary that tells the story of how hurling redefined itself as a sport in the 1990s to truly become our national game.

John Giles wants to tell his life story, in his own words. Sticking with the habit of a lifetime,  he’s going to say it as he sees it. This is the tale of a young Dublin boy raised in the inner city markets area, a gifted  teenager who signed for the Busby Babes two years before [...]