The opening scenes from the 'mockumentary' series 'Paths To Freedom'. Jeremy and Rats leave prison.

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  Prison Warden (Simon Delaney)
  Jeremy Fitzgerald (Brendan Coyle)
  Raymond Doyle (Michael McElhatton)
  Deirdre O'Kane (Helen Fitzgerald)
  Ian Fitzgibbon (Director)

'Cabin Fever 1' a tall ship being used in a reality television game show sinks.

• Production Year
  2003

RTÉ rebrands the second television channel and reverts to the name RTÉ TWO. 'Train' is one of a series of idents used to promote the new channel name.

• Production Year
  2004

A 'Prime Time Investigates' programme 'Home Truths' on the state of nursing home care prompted a national debate on how the elderly were being looked after in some nursing homes.

• Production Year
  2005
• Contributor
  Adrian Lydon

An 18-CD box set featuring the trilogy of novels by Samuel Beckett was produced by RTÉ and the Lannan Foundation in 2006 as part of a series of commemorative events marking the centenary of the Nobel prizewinner's birth.

• Production Year
  2006
• Contributor
  Conor Mark Kavanagh (Reporter)

RTÉ ONE Television launched a new on-screen identity package in November 2006. The channel commissioned a package of twelve new idents and on-screen graphics.

• Production Year
  2006
• Contributor
  Neil Kenny (Director)
  Oisín Lunny (Composer)

Seán Mac Réamoinn, a broadcaster and writer with a tremendous passion for the Irish language, died on 17 January 2007.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Sharon Ní Bheoláin (Newsreader)
  Bryan Dobson (Newsreader)
  Barry Cummins (Reporter)

RTÉ announces that television news and current affairs are to be streamed live on the web. The 2007 St Patrick's Day parade will be one of the first programmes to be simulcast.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Aengus MacGrianna (Newsreader)
  Sineád Crowley (Reporter)

RTÉ musicians are featured on five new 55 cent stamps. An Post says the stamps are a fitting tribute to the broadcaster's performing groups, each of which make a significant contribution to Irish cultural life.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Philip Bromwell (Reporter)

Minister for Communications launches the first terrestrial high definition television coverage of a sporting event in Ireland.

• Production Year
  2007

To commemorate the centenary of the birth of writer Máirtiín Ó Cadhain, RTÉ Television commissioned the documentary 'Rí an Fhocail'.

• Production Year
  1967
• Contributor
  Aindreas Ó Gallchóir (Director)

Céad fiche cúig bliain is an lá inniu a rugadh iar-Uachtarán na hÉireann, Éamon de Valera. Seoadh leabhar agus sraith cláracha raidió ina thaobh i mBaile Átha Cliath inniu.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Sorcha Ní Riada (Reporter)

Dustin the Turkey wins Ireland's national song contest by public vote. The selection of a puppet to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest causes some debate.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Paul O'Flynn (Reporter)

RTÉ Radio closes down its last Medium Wave transmitter at Tullamore, County Offaly after providing the radio signal for programmes for the last eighty two years.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Ciaran Mullooly (Reporter)

In 2008, RTÉ moved to new offices in Belfast after almost forty years in their previous premises. The new facilities were opened by the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Michael Fisher (Reporter)

For UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2008, Barry Cummins visits the RTÉ Television Archives and talks to Arthur Keating and Bríd Dooley about efforts to preserve RTÉ programmes.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Barry Cummins (Reporter)

Pat Kenny announces that after 10 years presenting 'The Late Late Show', he is to step down at the end of the series.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Presenter)

On Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday, RTÉ and the Irish Museum of Modern Art hosted an event at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. RTÉ's celebration of the poet's birthday featured radio and television programmes, a website and the launch of a 15-CD box set of Heaney reading all his poems.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sinéad Crowley (Reporter)

Following the announcement that he is to be the new presenter of 'The Late Late Show', 36-year-old broadcaster Ryan Tubridy gives his reaction to taking over the long running chat show.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sinéad Crowley (Reporter)

In the final episode of 'Questions and Answers', presenter John Bowman introduces some of the more memorable audience contributions over the years.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)

Rodney Rice ends his forty year broadcasting career with a final instalment of 'Saturday View'.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Rodney Rice (Presenter)

RTÉ Religious Programmes launches a new series of seven visual reflections for the Angelus. Here an office worker takes a moment at the end of her working day.

• Production Year
  2009

RTÉ News reports on the death of broadcaster and folk music collector Ciarán Mac Mathúna.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sharon Tobin