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Radio News Releases - May 2009

RTÉ Radio Highlights Week 23 (6-12 June) RTÉ Radio Highlights Week 23 (6-12 June) Saturday: THE LYRIC FEATUREFINDING FELIX Daniel Hope, the celebrated violinist, has recently recorded the original version of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor and he has also researched his own family roots in Ireland and Germany. Celia Donoghue talks to this inquisitive musician in Hamburg and her Mendelssohn […]
RTÉ RADIO 1 ANNOUNCES SHORTLIST FOR RADIO DRAMA AWARDS in memory of P.J O’Connor RTÉ RTÉ RADIO 1 ANNOUNCES SHORTLIST FOR RADIO DRAMA AWARDS in memory of P.J O’Connor RTÉ Radio 1 has announced the shortlist for the RTÉ Radio 1 Drama Awards. 2009 is the 29th year of the awards that were established to honour the late P.J O’Connor, former Head of Drama in RTÉ Radio 1, who […]
‘ONCE’ SHOP BANS CUSTOMERS FROM PLAYING ‘FALLING SLOWLY’RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ Radio ‘ONCE’ SHOP BANS CUSTOMERS FROM PLAYING ‘FALLING SLOWLY’ RTÉ Radio 1 At 1.45pm on Monday 1 June RTÉ Radio 1 will broadcast Falling Slowly is Banned, a documentary about the shop where the Oscar-winning song Falling Slowly was filmed. Staff say they are sick of listening to their customers playing it and have […]
RTÉ TO BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE VOLVO OCEAN RACE IN GALWAY RTÉ RTÉ TO BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE VOLVO OCEAN RACE IN GALWAY RTÉ is set to broadcast a range of radio and television programmes including RTÉ Radio 1’s The Tubridy Show and on television, RTÉ Nationwide, from Galway over the duration of the race stopover in the city of the Tribes. Ryan Tubridy will present […]
RTÉ 2FM’S RICK O’SHEA SHOW LAUNCHES SCREEN DATING NIGHT RTÉ Radio RTÉ 2FM’S RICK O’SHEA SHOW LAUNCHES SCREEN DATING NIGHT RTÉ 2fm’s Rick O’Shea Show in association with Movies@Dundrum is proud to present the first “Screen Dating event” at Movies@Dundrum on Thursday 21 May in Dundrum Town Centre cinema. The places have all been filled and Rick even had to get a bigger cinema […]
RTÉ Radio 1’s Mooney launches President McAleese’s Blue Tit Reality TV RtÉ Radio RTÉ Radio 1’s Mooney launches President McAleese’s Blue Tit Reality TV Follow Nestwatch 2009 at www.rte.ie/mooney Today RTÉ Radio 1 presenter Derek Mooney launched President McAleese’s very own Blue Tit Reality TV. The President has a blue tit nest box installed by the Mooney show ornithologists in the walled gardens behind Áras an […]
RTÉ Radio to host 35th International Features Conference RTÉ Radio RTÉ Radio to host 35th International Features Conference RTÉ Radio will host the 35th International Features Conference (IFC) from Sunday, 10th until Thursday, 14th May in Dublin Castle. This is the second time ever that the annual international broadcast conference takes place in Dublin. The conference will bring together over 120 award-winning radio […]