Radio News Releases - January 2008

The Poetry Programme: New Presenter Gerald Dawe is the new presenter on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Poetry Programme.Author of six collections of poetry, including Heart of Hearts, The Morning Train and Lake Geneva, Dawe recently published, The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics, Collected Criticism and a memoir, My Mother-City.He has been contributing to numerous programmes on RTÉ since the late […]
RTÉ RADIO 1’s CURIOUS EAR FEATURES CLARE WOMAN RTÉ Radio RTÉ RADIO 1’s CURIOUS EAR FEATURES CLARE WOMAN On Sunday 27 January at 7.45pm The Curious Ear features Clare woman Peggy Moloney as she begins her first holiday in 39 years, her retirement.   Since the mid-1800s there’s been a Post Office in O’Callaghan’s Mills, Co. Clare.  Since the late 1960s Peggy Moloney has […]
RTÉ RADIO 1 DOCUMENTS DONEGAL TEEN MUSIC PEACE PROJECT RTÉ RTÉ RADIO 1 DOCUMENTS DONEGAL TEEN MUSIC PEACE PROJECT This Sunday 27 January at 7.02pm RTÉ Radio 1’s Tuned In will showcase the talents of a group of teenagers brought together through a peace project. At the end of last year, Donegal VEC had an idea. Take 50 teenagers from different Donegal and Derry […]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BILLIONAIRE CHUCK FEENEY ON RTÉ RADIO 1 RTÉ Radio EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BILLIONAIRE CHUCK FEENEY ON RTÉ RADIO 1 Publicity-shy, frugal-living, left-of-centre billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney gives his first ever in-depth broadcast interview about his life exclusively to Eamon Dunphy this Saturday in RTÉ Radio 1’s Conversations with Eamon Dunphy at 9.10am. In the interview, he speaks publicly for the first time […]
IRELAND’S FIRST EVERY SKI-DATING EVENT!   RTÉ                   IRELAND’S FIRST EVERY SKI-DATING EVENT!   RTÉ 2fm’s Rick O’Shea Show is heading for the French Alps for Ireland’s first ever Ski-Dating event.  Think Speed-Dating on ice.    This Sunday, 20th January, six listeners – three single guys and three single girls will be flying out to the ski resort of […]
NUALA JACKSON ON RTÉ RADIO 1 SERIES: EXPERIENCE RTÉ NUALA JACKSON ON RTÉ RADIO 1 SERIES: EXPERIENCE The second in the eight part series, entitled Experience, will be broadcast on Tuesday 15 January at 10.02pm on RTÉ Radio 1. This programme will feature Nuala Jackson a former Ursuline Nun and founder of revolutionary school XLC (The External Learning Community Project School). Nuala continued […]
WATERFORDIANS TO FEATURE ON NEW RTÉ RADIO 1 SERIES: EXPERIENCE RTÉ WATERFORDIANS TO FEATURE ON NEW RTÉ RADIO 1 SERIES: EXPERIENCE A new eight part series, entitled Experience, will be broadcast on Tuesday 8 January at 10.02pm on RTÉ Radio 1. This series will focus on so-called ordinary people telling their life stories. The first programme in the series will feature an interview with Michael […]