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Siobhan Cullen (L) and Máiréad Tyers (R) star in Obituary

Get Creative: On writing a TV show - where do ideas come from?

Ever dreamed of writing a TV show but didn't know where to start? Now's the perfect time to pick up your pen (or keyboard) and dive in - no experience needed, just your imagination.

Get Creative • 21 hrs

They're coming to get you - the Horrorthon film festival returns

Programmer Darcie Faccio introduces this year's edition of Horrorthon, the Irish Film Institute's annual celebration of the finest (and scariest) in horror cinema from across the globe.

Film • 16 hrs

French mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel stars in The Magic Fountain

Watch and listen to Wexford Festival Opera 2025 live with RTÉ

Wexford Festival Opera and RTÉ are set to bring a taste of the magic of Wexford Festival Opera to audiences across Ireland and the globe this October.

Opera • 15 hrs

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2025 - read the shortlisted stories

We present the stories from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2025

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 17 hrs

How Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a win for all

The socioeconomic benefits of supporting artists through this scheme is worth €100 million to Irish society

Basic income • 12 hrs

RTÉjr Book Club: Diversity, inclusion and representation in books

In this RTÉjr Book Club we help find books where everyone can find themselves in the story - with thanks to Children's Books Ireland.

RTÉjr Book Club • 11 hrs

Dr Katriona O'Sullivan on bringing Poor to the stage

The writer and academic talks to Ray about writing her bestselling memoir, Poor, and how she felt watching it being performed live on stage.

Highlights • 10 Oct

Publicity portrait of Irish actor Constance Smith (1929-2003) (as 'Lily Bonner') in the film 'Man in the Attic', 1943, United States. (Photo by 20th Century Fox/De Carvalho Collection/Getty Images)

Connie Gets a Rewrite – The Lyric Feature on a forgotten star

Constance "Connie" Smith was born in 1929 on Limerick's Wolfe Tone Street and would later become a star who burned brightly, but all too briefly, during the golden age of Hollywood cinema.

The Lyric Feature • 12 Oct

Why Seamus Heaney remains Ireland's greatest poet

It is little over 12 years since Ireland lost a man considered by many its greatest ever poet

Books • 10 Oct

The Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear The Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm

Culture 5 • 12 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Maser's cultural picks

Visual artist Maser is judging this year's RTE's This Is Art! competition, supported by Creative Ireland.

Something For The Weekend • 08 Oct

Book Of The Week: Exploring the radical craft of memoir

Towards the end of her clearsighted and passionate exploration of the craft of memoir writing, author Lily Dunn quotes memoirists she has interviewed for the book.

Books • 06 Oct

Who is Tilly Norwood, and why does Hollywood hate her?

She looks like any other starlet; a pretty, doe-eyed, long-haired brunette, primed to play the ingénue in the next Richard Curtis rom-com. So why has Tilly Norwood become a pariah in Hollywood over the last week?

The Lauren Murphy Column • 07 Oct

Cover of the book Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

Shadow man: RTÉ Arena on the return of Thomas Pynchon

Richard Aldous reviews Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, a crime story set in 1930s Milwaukee.

RTÉ Arena • 08 Oct

How Dublin's Hellfire Club inspired a new video game

Nestled on top of Montpelier Hill in the Dublin mountains, lies the ruins of the Hellfire Club...

Video Games • 09 Oct

We're tired of tropes — it's time for change

Red Umbrella Éireann, a grassroots collective of current and former sex workers campaigning for the decriminalisation of sex work, are organising the second edition of Red Umbrella Film Festival, Ireland's sex worker festival.

Opinion and Analysis • 11 Oct

Books of Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai on display

Hungary's Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, considered by many as Hungary's most important living author whose works explore themes of postmodern dystopia and melancholy.

Books • 09 Oct