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A traditional singer from Dublin: Macdara Yeates on his debut LP

Macdara Yeates is one of the artists associated with the resurgence of traditional singing in Dublin over the last number of years.

The Gone, again: Richard Flood on the return of the hit RTÉ drama

Richard Flood, star of Grey's Anatomy, Shameless and Red Rock tells us about series 2 of RTE drama, The Gone.

Castel Gandolfo: Carrie Crowley & Jim Nolan on a Waterford drama

Castel Gandolfo is a new play set in the backyard of a decaying terraced house in Waterford's inner city.

Paging Dr Strangelove - Armando Iannucci talks to RTÉ Arena

Who would have thought that a film which finds the comedy in mutually assured nuclear destruction would go on to become a much beloved cult classic?

Wexford Festival Opera Director Rosetta Cucchi talks to RTÉ Arena

Theatre within Theatre - or as Shakespeare would put it, 'All the world's a stage" - is the theme of this year's Wexford Festival Opera, which runs from October 18th to November 2nd.

To the moon - singer Lisa O'Neill on her orchestral debut

Lisa O'Neill was last with RTÉ Arena when she released her 2023 album All Of This Is Chance.

Safe House - Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey on their song cycle

Enda Walsh is a multi-award playwright, director and screenwriter. Anna Mullarkey is a composer, performer and producer, whose music varies in style from folk to jazz to electronica.

Juliet Stevenson talks to Arena about her new movie Reawakening

The Boy That Never Was - actor Toni O'Rourke talks to RTÉ Arena

Listen: Zero f**ks given - the mighty Brian Cox talks to Arena

For a very special Arena Galway Film Fleadh & IFTA Special Event, we present a public interview with the star of Succession.

Violinist Mari Samuelsen on recomposing Vivaldi with the RTÉ CO

Still slippy - Irvine Welsh on his new book Resolution

Irvine Welsh brought us junkies, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie in his classic novel Trainspotting.

In the blood - singer Ríoghnach Connolly talks to RTÉ Arena

With sean-nós and folk music in her blood, Ríoghnach Connolly has blended her passion for the traditional Irish folk idiom with influences from all over the world.

I Am: Celine Dion - RTÉ Arena on a portrait of a diva in crisis

The ultimate diva, Celine Dion has been missing from her punishing concert schedule since 2020.

RTÉ Arena on the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death

This month marks the one hundredth anniversary of the death of one of the greatest writers in the German language...

Nineteen Eighty-Four at 75 - RTÉ Arena celebrates a literary gem

In 1936, British author George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) went to the Spanish Civil War as an enthusiastic supporter of the socialist dream and a hater of fascism...

Conductor Jaimé Martin bids adiós to the NSO

This Friday marks not only the season finale of the National Symphony Orchestra, but also after five memorable years Jaime Martín's final performance as their esteemed chief conductor.

Hilary Heron, celebrated - Arena on a pioneering Irish sculptor

Artist Hilary Heron is the focus of a new exhibition at IMMA, the latest in its Modern Masters series, curated by Sean Kissane.

"Even painful memories are sweet" - Rosanne Cash talks to Arena

In The Meadows with Lankum - the band talk to RTÉ Arena

The inaugural In The Meadows festival will take place on Saturday, June 8th - the event is headlined and co-curated by Lankum.