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Something for the Weekend: David Keenan's cultural picks

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Songwriter and poet David Keenan has just released his third studio album Modern Mythologies...

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Winners Announced for AIB Portrait Prize & Young Portrait Prize

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Artist Ciaran O Dochataigh: 'Is sickness generational?'

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Ultraviolet Art Talks: Artist Carl Hickey

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30 Acres - a mocumentary series (nearly) six years in the making

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RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Jill Kenny (close up, pic credit Eve North), finalist in 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Pool Story, by Jill Kenny

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writer Angela Finn (on a beach), a finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Comp:Spectrum of Sorrow by Angela Finn(2nd prize)

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Sage Omar, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition (pic credit Jie Gao)

Short Story Competition: It Must Have Come First, by Sage Omar

RTÉ Short Story Competition
Irish language writer Niall Ó Siadhail, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition:Corrán na Maidine by Niall Ó Siadhail

RTÉ Short Story Competition
writer Peter McCauley, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Wolves, by Peter McCauley

RTÉ Short Story Competition
writer Kevin McDermott, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Kazakhstan, by Kevin McDermott

RTÉ Short Story Competition
Lynda McCarthy, shortlisted writer in 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition:Witness by Lynda McCarthy (1st prize)

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writer Mary O'Rourke, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Labels, by Mary O'Rourke

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writer Sinèad Troy, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Feeding Time, by Sinéad Troy

RTÉ Short Story Competition
writer Ian Feighery, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition:Auntie & Anto & Ivy & Ava (3rd prize)

RTÉ Short Story Competition
Irish language writer Niall Ó Siadhail, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

Short Story Competition:The Sickle of Morning by Niall Ó Siadhail

RTÉ Short Story Competition

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Wexford Festival Opera - watch Le Trouvère by Giuseppe Verdi

Wexford Festival Opera
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Ulysses - listen to the epic RTÉ dramatisation

Ulysses
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10 Irish comics destined for stardom: the next wave of funny folk

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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 24: Lily Allen attends the Lily Allen x Perfect "West End Girl" album launch dinner at Decimo, The Standard London, on October 24, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Perfect Magazine)

No Filler - your one-stop pop culture essentials

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Shortlist unveiled for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards

Books
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Get Creative: On writing a TV show - turning an idea into a story

Get Creative
Charli XCX - one of the great romantic poets of the modern age?

Why Charli XCX might be gen Z's answer to the Romantic poets

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Best Of RTÉ lyric fm

Publicity portrait of Irish actor Constance Smith (1929-2003) (as 'Lily Bonner') in the film 'Man in the Attic', 1943, United States. (Photo by 20th Century Fox/De Carvalho Collection/Getty Images)

Connie Gets a Rewrite – The Lyric Feature on a forgotten star

The Lyric Feature

Constance "Connie" Smith was born in 1929 on Limerick's Wolfe Tone Street and would later become a star who burned brightly, but all too briefly, during the golden age of Hollywood cinema.

Photo by RTÉ staff member Áine Gallagher

Ambient Orbit returns - enter RTÉ lyric fm's chill out zone

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100 Irish Buildings

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100 Buildings: Modern meets medieval at St Mary's NS Limerick

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100 Buildings: Cavan General Hospital - wellness by design

Architecture
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100 Buildings: Dublin Airport's original terminal is a wonder

100 Buildings
100 Buildings: Guarding Sligo - the story of Look Out Post No. 67

100 Buildings: Guarding Sligo - the story of Look Out Post No. 67

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The front facade of South Tipperary Arts Centre, formerly a regional CIÉ bus station

100 Buildings: The Tipperary bus station reborn as an arts centre

100 Buildings
The Galway City Telephone Exchange (Pics courtesy of Amelia Walker, Hardiman's Galway)

100 Buildings: the Galway City Telephone Exchange rings a bell

100 Buildings
St Conal's Church in Glenties, Co. Donegal

100 Buildings: Where two glens meet - the drama of St Conal's

Architecture
100 Buildings: Tuite's of Oldcastle is a classic roadside garage

100 Buildings: Tuite's of Oldcastle is a classic roadside garage

Architecture
Blackrock tower in Salthill (Pic: Ciaran Ferrie)

100 Buildings: The Galway shelters and the Bishop's portholes

Architecture
The front view of St Loman's in Mullingar

100 Buildings: St Loman's in Mullingar - from hospital to homes

Architecture
Shopfront of B. Corcoran's Menswear, Wexford Town

100 Buildings: Making Wexford's Main Street modern

Architecture
100 Buildings: Back to school with Limerick's MIC dormitory block

100 Buildings: Back to school with Limerick's MIC dormitory block

Architecture

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