U2's first television appearance was on 'Youngline' on 2 March 1978 although the band were then called Hype. By the time they won a talent competition in Limerick on 17 March, the Hype had changed their name to U2.

• Production Year
  1978
• Contributor
  Conor McAnally (Reporter)

DJ Michael 'Micky Mac' McNamara was compere the night U2 won the 'Limerick Civic Week Pop 78' competition. Atlhough impressed with their sound Micky Mac didn't think much of the band's name.  

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Dave Fanning (Presenter)

Dave Fanning plays three U2 tracks for listeners who are asked to pick the 'A' side on the band's first single. Bono talks about his hopes for the single and playing gigs around Ireland.

• Production Year
  1979
• Contributor
  Dave Fanning (Reporter)

Bono takes part in a radio discussion about the art of singing. Following an extract from 'Out of Control', opera singer Veronica Dunne and singer and song collector Frank Harte give their opinions of U2's vocalist.

• Production Year
  1979
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Reporter)

U2 play 'Stories for Boys' on their first appearance on 'The Late Late Show.'.

• Production Year
  1980
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

With impressive sales of the album 'War' in America, Bono speaks to Pat Kenny about starting out and how U2 have got to this point in their career.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Presenter)

Bono, lead singer with U2, talks to Gay Byrne about making the video for 'New Year's Day', playing the Dandelion market and why he thinks drugs are boring. He also introduces his wife Ali.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

Paul McGuinness talks about how he came to be the manager of U2.

• Production Year
  1985
• Contributor
  Flo McSweeney (Presenter)

U2 are back to play their first gig in Dublin for almost two years. There are almost 60,000 in Croke Park to welcome the band home.

• Production Year
  1985
• Contributor
  Billy Magra (Producer Director)

U2 Play live on 'TV GAGA' and two fans get a chance to play with the band.

• Production Year
  1986

Dave Fanning introduces U2 at Self Aid, a day long benefit concert to highlight chronic unemployment in 1980s Ireland.

• Production Year
  1986
• Contributor
  Dave Fanning (Compere)

Fans wait outside U2's hotel in Boston. Bono signs autographs and chats with some of them before being driven to a rehearsal.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Reporter)

Of the many interviews Dave Fanning has conducted with U2, a 1987 broadcast where the band stripped and then persuaded the DJ to remove his clothes has to be one of the more bizarre.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Dave Fanning (Presenter)

Fans who come to buy the 'Rattle and Hum' album at a midnight launch in a Dublin record shop get a surprise when Bono, the Edge and Adam turn up.

• Production Year
  1988
• Contributor
  Cathy Halloran (Reporter)

At the Dublin premiere of 'Rattle and Hum' U2 play to fans waiting outside the Savoy cinema in O'Connell Street.

• Production Year
  1988
• Contributor
  Eileen Magner (Reporter)

At the end of two years that brought worldwide recognition to U2, the band talk to Gay Byrne about dealing with fame at home in Dublin.

• Production Year
  1988
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

Three girls who spend their time hanging around Windmill Lane studios describe meeting Bono in this clip from a Julian Vignoles radio doucmentary.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Julian Vignoles (Producer)

U2 play the Point Depot on New Year's Eve 1989. RTÉ Television went live to the U2 concert at midnight.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Presenter)

U2 talk to Pat Kenny about Zoo TV, American presidents, how to fix the Irish economy and showbands.

• Production Year
  1992
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Presenter)

With an estimated 700 million to listen to the radio broadcast of U2's Zooropa concert from the RDS in Dublin, fans from around the world queue at the venue. RTÉ radio producer Ian Wilson talks about the broadcast.

• Production Year
  1993
• Contributor
  Cathy Milner (Reporter)

On a cold Valentine's night, U2 open a new nightclub, The Kitchen, in their Clarence Hotel, Dublin.

• Production Year
  1994
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

U2 launch their PopMart tour in a New York discount store.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Mark Little (Reporter)

When Bono and his wife Ali spent New Year's Eve 1995 in Sarajevo, Bono promised to bring the band on his next visit. Nationwide reports on U2's visit to Sarajevo and asks the fans what is means to them. 

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Diarmuid Peavoy (Reporter)

U2 and Ash play a concert in Belfast days before the referendum on the Belfast Agreement.

• Production Year
  1998
• Contributor
  Annette O'Donnell (Reporter)

U2 are given the freedom of Dublin city. Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is similarily honoured.

• Production Year
  2000
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

U2 record a filmed insert for the BBC programme 'Top of the Pops' on the roof of Dublin's Clarence Hotel.

• Production Year
  2000
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

As a warm up to their Elevation tour, U2 play to 1,500 lucky fans at the Astoria Theatre in London.

• Production Year
  2001
• Contributor
  Brian O'Connell (Reporter)

U2 play Slane Castle twenty years after playing support there to Thin Lizzy. 

• Production Year
  2001
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

Larry Mullen talks to RTÉ DJ Larry Gogan about the track he likes playing best live, how he began as a drummer,the dynamics of the band after 30 years and keeping his youthful looks.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Larry Gogan (Presenter)

At the last of three Dublin U2 concerts, Bono announces that imprisoned Burmese oppostion leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be the new Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience. 

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sharon Tobin (Reporter)