The following is a list of events relating to

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from 2018.

Events

January

* 8 January – '' Micko'' airs on RTÉ One. * 23 January –

Saorview Saorview ( ) is the national digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in Ireland. It is owned by RTÉ and operated by 2RN. The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with a full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation i ...

announces the launch of Free TV, a channel designed to promote the launch of its premium service Saorview Connect.

February

* 1 February –

Joanne Cantwell Joanne Cantwell (born 30 September 1979) is an Irish sports presenter. Personal life Cantwell was raised in Dublin, one of five daughters. She studied journalism at Dublin City University. Cantwell is married with two daughters and lives in O ...

is named as the new presenter of ''

The Sunday Game ''The Sunday Game'' is RTÉ's main Gaelic games television programme. It is shown on RTÉ2 every Sunday during the Football Championship and Hurling Championship seasons. It is one of RTÉ2's longest-running shows, having been on air since 1 ...

'' following popular studio host

Michael Lyster Michael Lyster (born 11 April 1954) is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for RTÉ. He mainly covered sporting events, such as Gaelic games and Olympic Games. He is best known for presenting '' The Sunday Game Live'', which he ...

's retirement from RTÉ at the end of the 2018 GAA season. * 3 February – ''

Ireland's Got Talent '' Ireland's Got Talent'' is the Irish version of the international ''Got Talent'' franchise. The series launched on 3 February 2018 on Virgin Media One (formerly known as "TV3") and was hosted by Lucy Kennedy, accompanied by a sister show ent ...

'' makes its debut on

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March

* 24 March – RDC win the

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of ''

''. * 26 March – Jake Carter and dance partner

Karen Byrne Karen Byrne (born 30 May 1992) is an Irish dancer and choreographer. She is known as being a judge and, previously, a professional dancer on the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars. Early life Byrne was born in Ballyfermot in Dublin. She ...

win the second series of ''

Dancing with the Stars ''Strictly Come Dancing (widely known as Dancing with the Stars)'' is an international television franchise based on the format of the British TV series '' Strictly Come Dancing,'' itself a successor to the show ''Come Dancing'' (1950–1998) ...

''.

April

* 28 April – Reports emerge that RTÉ has asked the

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment The Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment () is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland and leads the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment. The Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment is Darragh O'Brie ...

for permission to reduce the Aertel teletext service on the grounds that it has been superseded by more recent technology. For legal reasons, RTE has to get permission from the Minister to make significant changes to Aertel.

May

* 7 May – RTÉ announce plans for a timeshift channel for

RTÉ2 RTÉ2 (formerly branded as RTÉ 2 from 1978–88, Network 2 from 1988–97, N2 from 1997–2004 and RTÉ Two from 2004–14) is an Irish free-to-air television channel operated by public service broadcaster RTÉ. It was launched on 2 Novemb ...

June

* 6 June – ''Ireland's Got Talent'' will make its UK television debut on

5Star 5Star (stylized as 5STAR) is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global, which is grouped under Paramount Networks UK & Australia division. It originally laun ...

July

* 1 July – ITV closes UTV's Havelock House studios and UTV begins broadcasting from a new broadcast centre at City Quays 2 in the Belfast Harbour Estate.

August

* 30 August – TV3 is rebranded as Virgin Media One, while its sister channels 3e and be3 become Virgin Media Two and Three respectively. A fourth pay TV sports channel,

Virgin Media Sport Virgin Media Sport (formerly TV3 Sport) is a sports production unit at Virgin Media Television in Ireland which produces specialist sports content for its television channels Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, and Virgin Media Three. The depa ...

, launches on the Virgin Media platform.

September

* 1 September – To coincide with the rebranding of TV3 to Virgin Media One, the ''Saturday AM'' and ''Sunday AM'' breakfast programmes are renamed as ''"Weekend AM"''. * 18 September – Launch of

. * 28 September – ''

Players of the Faithful ''Players of the Faithful'' is a documentary on Offaly's bid to stop Kerry becoming the first team to win five consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championships in 1982. Loosehorse were responsible for putting it together; it followed on f ...

'' airs on RTÉ One.

October

* 12 October – '' The Late Late Show'' is broadcast live from

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in London, the first time the programme has broadcast from the United Kingdom since 1980. * 30 October –

Jennifer Zamparelli Jennifer Zamparelli (née Maguire; born 9 April 1980) is an Irish comedian and television presenter. She is known for her role on the TV show ''Republic of Telly'', where she was a primary writer, and as co-host of the 2FM morning show '' Break ...

is announced as the new co-host of the Irish version of ''

'' alongside

Nicky Byrne Nicholas Bernard James Adam McGarry Byrne Jr. (born 9 October 1978) is an Irish pop singer, songwriter and radio and television presenter. He is best known for being a member of the pop group Westlife; Westlife has since released twelve albums, ...

November

* 3 November – RTÉ2 celebrates its 40th anniversary and begins to offer vintage clips of shows from RTÉ2 on the RTÉ archives website. * 29 November –

BBC Two Northern Ireland BBC Two Northern Ireland is a Northern Irish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by BBC Northern Ireland as a variation of the BBC Two network. It is broadcast via digital terrestrial transmitters and from the SES Astra 2E satell ...

starts broadcasting in HD. * 30 November – ''

The Late Late Toy Show ''The Late Late Toy Show'' is an annual, special edition of the Irish chat show ''The Late Late Show (Irish talk show), The Late Late Show''. Airing annually on RTÉ One near the end of November or early December to coincide with the holiday sh ...

'' is livestreamed on

RTÉ Player RTÉ Player is an on demand video service provided by Irish public media broadcaster RTÉ. The service provides live and recorded RTÉ television programs, and content exclusive to the player as well as content from other international broadca ...

, where anyone anywhere in the world can watch live as it is not Geo-blocked. It is also broadcast on RTÉ One, and goes on to become the most watched programmes on Irish television in 2018.

December

* 15 December – Rugby union player

Johnny Sexton Jonathan Jeremiah Sexton (born 11 July 1985) is an Irish former professional rugby union player who played as a Fly-half (rugby union), fly-half and Captain (sports), captained the Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland national team from ...

is named the 2018

RTÉ Sports Person of the Year The RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Award is the titular award of the RTÉ Sports Awards ceremony, which takes place each December. The winner is the Irish sportsperson (from the island of Ireland) judged to have achieved the most that year. The ...

. * 16 December – The Coney family from

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...

, coached by

Anna Geary Anna Geary (born 28 July 1987) is a retired camogie player and television personality from Milford, County Cork, Ireland. Sporting career She is a winner of four All Star awards, most recently in 2011. She previously won All-Star awards i ...

, win season six of '' Ireland's Fittest Family'', making Geary the first coach to win twice. * 31 December – Norma Sheahan and her family win the 2018 Christmas celebrity special of ''Ireland's Fittest Family'', and €10,000 for their charity of choice.

Debuts

* 3 February – ''

'' on TV3 * 8 February – '' The Young Offenders'' on RTÉ2 * 27 August – ''

Killing Eve ''Killing Eve'' is a British spy thriller television series produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America and BBC Three (streaming service), BBC Three. The series follows Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a British intelligence age ...

'' on RTÉ2 * 10 October – ''Finding Joy'' on RTÉ1 * 26 November – '' Death and Nightingales'' on RTÉ1

Ongoing television programmes

1960s

* '' RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock'' (1961–present) * '' RTÉ News: Six One'' (1962–present) * '' The Late Late Show'' (1962–present)

1970s

* ''

'' (1975–present) * ''

'' (1979–present)

1980s

* ''

Fair City ''Fair City'' is an Irish television soap opera which has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 1989. Produced by the public service broadcaster RTE, it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several awards and is both the most po ...

'' (1989–present) * '' RTÉ News: One O'Clock'' (1989–present)

1990s

* ''

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'' (1990s–present) * ''

Winning Streak A winning streak, also known as a win streak or hot streak, is an uninterrupted sequence of success in games or competitions, commonly measured by at least three wins that are uninterrupted by losses or ties. In sports, it can be applied to te ...

'' (1990–present) * ''

Prime Time Prime time, or peak time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...

'' (1992–present) * ''

Nuacht RTÉ Nuacht RTÉ le TG4 (Irish for ''RTÉ News by TG4'') is the main news service for Irish speakers on RTÉ television. The service is broadcast from the news studios at Baile na hAbhann in the Connemara Gaeltacht, County Galway, Ireland. Nuacht RT ...

'' (1995–present) * '' Nuacht TG4'' (1996–present) * ''

Ros na Rún () is an Irish soap opera produced for the Irish-language television channel TG4. The series is set in a fictional village called Ros na Rún, located near to An Spidéal, where the series is filmed. It focuses on the domestic and professional ...

'' (1996–present) * ''

TV3 News Virgin Media News (formerly TV3 News and then 3News Ireland) is the news division of Virgin Media Television in Ireland, owned by Liberty Global. The news division produces news and current affairs programming for free-to-air channels Virgin M ...

'' (1998–present) * ''

Ireland AM ''Ireland AM'' is an Irish morning television show on Virgin Media One. It airs live every weekday from 07:00 to 10:00, and weekends from 9:00 to 12:00. The program features news, current affairs, weather updates, showbiz, fashion, beauty, f ...

'' (1999–present) * '' Telly Bingo'' (1999–present)

2000s

* '' Nationwide'' (2000–present) * '' TV3 News at 5.30'' (2001–present) – now known as the 5.30 * ''

Against the Head ''Against the Head'' is a weekly rugby magazine programme, broadcast on RTÉ Two and presented by Joanne Cantwell with regular panellists Shane Byrne, and Irish Times rugby correspondent Gerry Thornley with various other guests throughout th ...

'' (2003–present) * ''

news2day ''news2day'' is an Republic of Ireland, Irish Children's news program, children's television news programme, broadcast weekdays at 4:20pm on RTÉ Kids on RTÉ2. It is 10 to 15 minutes long, with 15 minute recap episodes on Saturdays. It is sim ...

'' (2003–present) * '' Other Voices'' (2003–present) * ''

Saturday Night with Miriam ''Saturday Night with Miriam'' was an Irish talk show first broadcast on RTÉ One in the summer of 2005. The show runs for six weeks as a summer filler, and is overseen by Miriam O'Callaghan, a co-presenter of ''Prime Time''. Format ''Saturda ...

'' (2005–present) * ''

The Week in Politics ''The Week in Politics'' is an Irish news and current affairs programme broadcast on RTÉ One and the RTÉ News channel. It is presented by Áine Lawlor, occasionally by Sharon Ní Bheoláin or Paul Cunningham. In its original format in 1996 ...

'' (2006–present) * ''

Xposé ''Xposé'' is an entertainment, fashion and beauty programme that aired on Irish television from 2007 to 2019. It was broadcast every Friday at 18:00 on Virgin Media One. It ran for a 3-day week at 20:00 on Virgin Media Two (previously known ...

'' (2007–2019) * '' At Your Service'' (2008–present) * ''

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'' (2008–present) * '' 3e News'' (2009–present) * ''

Dragons' Den ''Dragons' Den'' is a reality television program format in which entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hope of securing investment finance from them. The program originated in 2001 in Japan, where it ...

'' (2009–present) * '' Two Tube'' (2009–present)

2010s

* '' Jack Taylor'' (2010–present) * '' Mrs. Brown's Boys'' (2011–present) * ''

MasterChef Ireland ''MasterChef Ireland'' is an RTÉ television cooking game show based on the international format created by Franc Roddam. As of late 2016 the series has moved to TV3, the fourth season is expected to air as part of the TV3 Autumn 2016 schedule b ...

'' (2011–present) * '' Irish Pictorial Weekly'' (2012–present) * ''

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'' (2012–present) * '' The Works'' (2012–present) * ''

Deception Deception is the act of convincing of one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver of the information does not. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. Tort of ...

'' (2013–present) * '' Celebrity MasterChef Ireland'' (2013–present) * '' Second Captains Live'' (2013–present) * '' Claire Byrne Live'' (2015–present) * '' The Restaurant'' (2015–present) * '' Red Rock'' (2015–present) * '' TV3 News at 8'' (2015–present) * '' Ploughing Live'' (2015–present) * ''

First Dates ''First Dates'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British reality television programme that has aired on Channel 4 since 20 June 2013. The programme has been narrated by Brian Protheroe since 2015. Production The production was filmed a ...

'' (2016–present) * ''

'' (2017–present) * ''

The Tommy Tiernan Show ''The Tommy Tiernan Show'' is an Republic of Ireland, Irish chat show presented by Tommy Tiernan. It was first broadcast on RTÉ One on 5 January 2017. The first two series aired on Thursday evenings, with the third series moving to a Saturday e ...

'' (2017–present) * ''

Striking Out ''Striking Out'' is an Television in the Republic of Ireland, Irish television legal drama television series, broadcast on RTÉ, that first aired on 1 January 2017, based on ''The Good Wife'' by Robert King (writer), Robert and Michelle King. Prod ...

'' (2017–present)

Ending this year

Dolores O'Riordan 8th January

References

External links

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{{Years in TV by country, 2018

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Debuts

Ongoing television programmes

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Ending this year

Dolores O'Riordan 8th January

See also

References

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