List of years in Irish television (table)
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The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2024.

Events

January

  • 1 January – RTÉ One's New Year's Eve celebrations include a special edition of The Late Late Show at 10.15pm featuring a line up of guests including Midge Ure, Wheatus, The Tumbling Paddies and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. This is followed by The New Year's Eve Countdown Concert from Dublin Castle featuring Picture This and presented by Anna Geary.[1][2] The Late Late Show is watched by an audience of 531,000 viewers,[3] while viewers take to social media to comment on the lack of a presenter to ring in the New Year during the coverage of The New Year's Eve Countdown, which instead sees Picture This playing one of their songs up until ten seconds to midnight, followed by an onscreen countdown.[4]
  • 5 January –
  • 7 January – LGBTQ+ and HIV activist Rebecca Tallon De Havilland presents the first edition of Second Chances, a new wellbeing series on Virgin Media One, and becomes the first openly trans Irish person to host their own TV series.[6]
  • 8 January – RTÉ One broadcasts Sinéad, a documentary reflecting on the life of singer and musician Sinéad O'Connor and her influence on Irish life. The documentary includes contributions from her fellow musicians, such as David Holmes, Christy Moore, Imelda May, Don Letts and BP Fallon.[7]
  • 12 January – Former US late night talk show presenter Conan O'Brien appears as a guest on The Late Late Show during a visit to Ireland.[8]

Debuts

  • 8 January – Sinéad on RTÉ One[7]
  • 9 January – Inside Penneys on RTÉ One[7]

Ongoing television programmes

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Ending this year

References

  1. ↑ Coffey, Jody (30 December 2023). "Full line-up revealed for The Late Late Show's New Year's Eve special". JOE.ie. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  2. ↑ McLaughlin, Sophie (31 December 2023). "Everything we know ahead of Patrick Kielty's first NYE Late Late Show special". Belfast Live. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 Ward, Shauna Bannon (5 January 2024). "The Late Late Show return date confirmed as replacement announced". RSVP Live. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  4. ↑ de Brun, Liam (1 January 2024). "Did RTÉ Make A Major Gaffe On New Year's Eve? Viewers Divided By Picture This' Countdown". Extra.ie. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Lingeswaran, Susan (5 January 2024). "RMG and Virgin Media agree three-year rights extension". Sportcal. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  6. ↑ Tiernan, Han (9 January 2024). "Irish trans activist Rebecca Tallon De Havilland makes history as host of uplifting new wellbeing series". Yahoo News. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 "Let's Get Together this New Year with RTÉ". About RTÉ. RTÉ. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "Conan O'Brien: 'Obama Plaza named air pump after me'". RTÉ News. RTÉ. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
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