RTÉ commences television broadcasts with Irish Sign Language.
Formerly known as the National Association for Deaf People, DeafHear was founded in 1964 to promote the welfare of deaf people and their families in Ireland. Over the last 50 years, the organisation has worked to improve the quality of life for the deaf and hard of hearing.
There have been a number of initiatives by RTÉ to help make programmes accessible to this community, from the introduction of the first news for the deaf in 1975 to Ireland's first television magazine programme for the deaf, 'Sign of the Times', in 1988.
In 2013 RTÉ Television introduced a weekly strand of programmes in Irish Sign Language (ISL). Every Wednesday three hours of programmes signed by ITV Sign Post are broadcast on RTÉ and made available on the RTÉ Player.
This extract is from 'Don't Tell the Bride', one of the first programmes to be signed. Here Jason Boyd in Cork is tasked with planning his wedding to Onoir O'Brien.
This episode of 'Don't Tell The Bride' with ISL was broadcast on 16 October 2013. It was produced by Coco TV.
