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Mr. Hayes is now entombed: Maeve Higgins digs into RTÉ's Archives

For Culture Night 2026, guest editors D.A.D.D.Y. invited their Extra Ordinary star Maeve Higgins to revisit a classic from the RTÉ Archives...

Culture Night • 21 Sep

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Watch: RTÉ 100 In Concert at the National Concert Hall

Marking 100 years of Your Public Service Media. In the company of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, through archive recordings, music, song, memory and story, we celebrate one hundred years of radio in Ireland.

RTÉ 100 • 05 Sep

RTÉ Cult Classics: How No Disco reshaped Irish music TV

Watching clips of No Disco (1993-2003) today, at a time when our music choices are at the mercy of almighty streaming algorithms, I'm reminded of the dying art of curation.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 08 Jul

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: Hands celebrated Ireland's crafts & customs

Think you know a blackberry stitch from a herringbone weave, the four Bs of beekeeping, or how to trap an eel using a handful of twigs? No worries if not – with this show, you'll be an old hand in no time.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 25 Jun

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: Pat's Chat - meet the mad hatter of kids TV

The late, great Pat Ingoldsby wore many hats throughout his career – both literally and figuratively.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 27 May

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: David O'Doherty's magic Modest Adventures

Winner of the top prize at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a beloved presence across UK panel shows, and a bestselling children's author to boot – David O'Doherty has achieved just about everything in the funny business

RTÉ Cult Classics • 19 May

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: Wanderly Wagon is a psychedelic fever dream

As part of my ongoing mission to declutter my parents' house, I recently dropped off a dusty stack of DVDs at CeX, the cherry-red tech trade-in megastore whose name has been making us smirk since 1992.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 12 May

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: The enduring mad genius of Soupy Norman

In a quiet corner of a Dublin pub on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, two stalwarts of the Irish comedy scene are quietly chatting over pints.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 28 Apr

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: A Scare At Bedtime traumatised a generation

Listen up, ye scuttering gobsheens!

RTÉ 100 • 21 Apr

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: When Bachelors Walk met Celtic Tiger Dublin

Airing on Network 2 from 2001–2003 (with a Christmas special in 2006), Bachelors Walk became one of RTÉ's biggest wins of the early 2000s...

RTÉ Cult Classics • 14 Apr

RTÉ Cult Classics: How Fade Street put reality TV in Vogue

A reality series following the romantic and professional lives of a group of twentysomethings in Dublin, Fade Street (2010-2011) was the show we loved to hate.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 08 Apr

RTÉ Cult Classics: Paths to Freedom blazed a mockumentary trail

As RTÉ celebrates its 100th anniversary, we're celebrating Irish TV's cult classics - the unsung gems that over the decades have won their way into the hearts and minds of Irish viewers.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 31 Mar

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