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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

How Super Mario Bros powered Hollywood's video‑game boom

Opinion and Analysis

The entertainment industry has always been one big melting pot of content...

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RTÉ Cult Classics: Paths to Freedom blazed a mockumentary trail

RTÉ Cult Classics

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What makes a good short story? Jan Carson's advice for writers

RTÉ Short Story Competition

The Ballydehob Jazz Festival takes to the streets

RTÉ Supporting The Arts this April

RTE Supporting The Arts

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New Music Dublin: Donnacha Dennehy's Grammy winner Land Of Winter

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Book Of The Week: The Visit by Neil Tully is a powerful debut

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Sunday Miscellany: Billy Roche takes a trip to The Alamo

Sunday Miscellany

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Great games for young gamers (that aren't Roblox!)

Group of children having fun on an Easter Egg Hunt

RTÉ KIDS Book Club: Crack open these egg-cellent reads

RTÉ Kids Book Club

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New Irish Writing - Djamel White's All Them Dogs extracted

Chappell Roan on stage at Electric Picnic 2025

The Chappell Roan debacle proves how dangerous fame has become

Opinion and Analysis

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Irish Book Awards reveal 60 best titles of past 20 years

Chicago Police Chief Francis O'Neill is the subject of the latest Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature: The Chicago Police Chief who collected trad tunes

The Lyric Feature

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Dublin's Stella to screen Tarantino film with live talk

Editor's Choice

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Ireland unveils Isabel Nolan's Dreamshook for Venice Biennale

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The 2026 RTÉ Short Story Competition announces call for entries

RTÉ Short Story Competition

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10 smaller Irish music festivals to check out this year

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Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas?

Opinion and Analysis

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CMAT and Amble win big at RTÉ Choice Music Awards

RTÉ Choice Music Awards

Great Irish debut albums to (re)discover - Dan Hegarty starts up

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Dublin's coming of age - from boom to bust and beyond

Games

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Quick play: 10 great video games you can finish in a day

Video games are proof that size doesn't always matter.

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Game over: why are so many big video games dying upon release?

Opinion and Analysis

Has one Irishman's 15-second AI video killed off Hollywood?

Opinion and Analysis

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How to manage your kids' gaming habits

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Get Creative

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Kenny's legendary bookshop and art gallery in Galway

Get Creative: On writing a novel - getting your work out there

Get Creative: writing non-fiction – hybrid texts & collaborations

'In Ireland we tend to read poetry in liturgical tones. It's one of those unusual occasions where we can blame something on both W.B. Yeats, and the Catholic Church'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - who are you talking to?

Paul Duane's movie All You Need Is Death won rave reviews upon release

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Get Creative: On writing a novel – notes on editing your book

Get Creative: On writing a novel - planning, plotting & scheming

Get Creative: On writing a novel - carving out time to write

Banshee is one of the many journals in the busy Irish literary scene

Get Creative: On writing a novel - go find your tribe

Get Creative: On writing a novel - a great place to start

Get Creative: On non-fiction - writing groups and first readers

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing audio essays

Best Of RTÉ lyric fm

Chicago Police Chief Francis O'Neill is the subject of the latest Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature: The Chicago Police Chief who collected trad tunes

The Lyric Feature

Derry-born composer Seán Doherty is best known for his choral compositions, but in Sunday's Lyric Feature, 1001 Gems, he goes back to his roots in Irish traditional music.

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Is Foy Vance the best-kept secret in Irish music? Marty thinks so

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Sara Baume takes a trip out of the marvellous - The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature

Photo by RTÉ staff member Áine Gallagher

Ambient Orbit returns - enter RTÉ lyric fm's chill out zone

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100 Irish Buildings

100 Buildings: Defending Duncannon: Wexford's WW2 pillbox

100 Buildings: Dublin Airport's original terminal is a wonder

100 Buildings: Modern meets medieval at St Mary's NS Limerick

100 Buildings: Cavan General Hospital - wellness by design

100 Buildings: Guarding Sligo - the story of Look Out Post No. 67

100 Buildings: Guarding Sligo - the story of Look Out Post No. 67

The front facade of South Tipperary Arts Centre, formerly a regional CIÉ bus station

100 Buildings: The Tipperary bus station reborn as an arts centre

The Galway City Telephone Exchange (Pics courtesy of Amelia Walker, Hardiman's Galway)

100 Buildings: the Galway City Telephone Exchange rings a bell

St Conal's Church in Glenties, Co. Donegal

100 Buildings: Where two glens meet - the drama of St Conal's

100 Buildings: Tuite's of Oldcastle is a classic roadside garage

100 Buildings: Tuite's of Oldcastle is a classic roadside garage

Blackrock tower in Salthill (Pic: Ciaran Ferrie)

100 Buildings: The Galway shelters and the Bishop's portholes

The front view of St Loman's in Mullingar

100 Buildings: St Loman's in Mullingar - from hospital to homes

Shopfront of B. Corcoran's Menswear, Wexford Town

100 Buildings: Making Wexford's Main Street modern