The Upfront Team

Students marched in Dublin on Wednesday to call for increased investment in student accommodation

Housing: 'A genuine crisis of enormous proportions'

Katie Hannon speaks to Philip Lawton, Assistant Professor in Global Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin about the global housing crisis and how to solve it

Upfront • 13 Oct 23

Is it time to end our meat production and consumption?

As part of The Conversation from RTÉ's Upfront with Katie Hannon, we asked two people to join our WhatsApp group to discuss Ireland's meat consumption and production

Upfront • 04 Oct 23

Donie O'Sullivan covers the intersection of politics and technology for US broadcaster CNN

Donie O'Sullivan: Don't be 'complacent' with conspiracy theories

CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan says that it is "not a time to be complacent" about conspiracy theories in Ireland with US or UK groups potentially spreading them here

Upfront • 29 Sep 23

Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin chaired the Citizens' Assembly for Biodiversity Loss.

Ní Shuilleabháin 'grateful' for women speaking out on Brand

UCD professor Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin spoke to Katie Hannon about Ireland's biodiversity loss and her experience of workplace sexual harassment

Upfront • 22 Sep 23

Watch: Farming, the climate crisis and care at Temple Street

Ahead of the National Ploughing Championships getting underway in Laois, Katie Hannon was joined live by a studio audience and guest panelists to discuss nitrate derogation and Ireland's water quality

Upfront • 19 Sep 23

Twice Emmy-nominated journalist Shaunagh Connaire made over 40 films for Channel 4

Channel 4's DNA is 'based on risk taking'

RTÉ announced a hiring freeze this week leading to calls for the national broadcaster to sell its Montrose base and to adopt a publisher-broadcaster model similar to Channel 4 in the UK. But what is Channel 4's broadcasting model? And how does it work?

Upfront • 16 Sep 23

Watch: RTÉ's summer of turmoil, and recent climate protests

Upfront has returned for a new season, with host Katie Hannon joined live by a studio audience and guest panelists to discuss a summer of turmoil at RTÉ and the nature of recent climate protests.

Upfront • 12 Sep 23

Should price caps on groceries be introduced?

We invited People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy and senior lecturer at Technological University Dublin Damian O'Reilly to join the Upfront WhatsApp group to discuss whether a price cap on certain staples should be introduced.

Upfront • 27 Jun 23

The aristocrat leading Ireland's rewilding revolution

Randal Plunkett, the 21st Baron of Dunsany, speaks to Katie Hannon on Upfront: The Podcast about his rewilding project at Dunsany Castle and why Ireland needs to act now to tackle the biodiversity and climate crises

Upfront • 26 May 23

Is it time to rid our roads of SUVs?

As part of The Conversation from RTÉ's Upfront with Katie Hannon, we asked Conor Faughnan and Tom Spencer to join our WhatsApp group to discuss the sale of SUVs in Ireland.

Upfront • 23 Jun 23