The top highlight of the day is the St Patrick's Festival Parade, but there's also the Dancing with the Stars final, The Pogues in Paris and The Shamrock Tenors: St Patrick's Night Concert . . .
Pick of the Day
St Patrick's Festival Parade, 12.15pm, RTÉ One
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Sarah McInerney, Dáithí O'Sé and Emer O'Neill are joined by reporter Thomas Crosse to present live coverage of the national St. Patrick's Day Parade on the streets of Dublin.
This year’s theme is Spréach, the Irish word for Spark. Plus performances by big bands, including the University of Missouri's marching band and the Western Carolina University's musicians.
A new pageant has been commissioned featuring a collaboration between the St Patrick’s Festival Community Arts programme, the North-East Inner-City Initiative (NEIC) and Dublin City Council.
The pageant will honour and celebrate the Festival’s connection to Dublin’s inner city, with its own residents taking centre stage on the streets of the Capital.
The Festival continues to work with Ireland’s foremost creative pageant companies including Bui Bolg, Spraoi, Inishowen Carnival, The Outing Queer Arts Collective, Artastic.
With half a million spectators expected to line this year’s route, the Parade will feature 18 pageants and performance showpieces, 14 marching bands from across Ireland, North America and France - and over 4,000 participants in what is shaping up to be the largest ever National St Patrick’s Day Parade.
Don't Miss
Dancing with the Stars, 7.00pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
The celebrity dance contest reaches its final, with the remaining pairings performing their routines in the hopes of impressing the judges to achieve the title of reigning champion.
The Riverdance cast will add an emerald edge to the final, along with many former contestants including Marty Morrissey (below) and previous winner Lottie Ryan.
The final will kick in as the couples take the floor for their first dance of the evening, chosen by the judges.
Paralympian Jason Smyth and his partner Karen Byrne will return to their Samba from Week 7 dancing to Rhythm Divine by Enrique Iglesias.
Blu Hydrangea and their partner Simone Arena will aim for perfect points once again with their Contemporary Ballroom fusion to Tattoo by Loreen from Week 5.
TV and radio presenter, Laura Fox and her professional partner Denys Samson will dance their Jive from Week 1 to River Deep, Mountain High by the Glee Cast.
After their shock Dance Off appearance last week, Wild Youth singer, David Whelan and partner Salome Chachua will dance their Jive from Movie Week to You Can Never Tell + Misirlou from Pulp Fiction.
The competition will reach its pinnacle as the couples showcase their Show Dances. David Whelan and Salome Chachua will aim to enchant with All That Really Matters by ILLENIUM and Teddy Swims, while Jason Smyth and Karen Byrne hope to deliver a powerful performance to Go the Distance by Michael Bolton.
Laura Fox and Denys Samson will hope to mesmerize with Make it Look Easy by DITA, and Blu Hydrangea and Simone Arena will close their time in the competition with I Am What I Am by John Barrowman.
Wrapping up the final, the returning couples of season seven will storm the dancefloor with the final Group Dance, set to Murder on the Dancefloor by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
The Pogues in Paris - 30th Anniversary Concert, 9.45pm, TG4
Here's a fun way to celebrate Saint Patrick's Night - The Pogues in concert in Paris’s Olympia Theatre in September 2012 to celebrate their 30th anniversary.
They perform much-loved hits from across their career including Streams of Whiskey, Star of the County Down and Fairytale of New York.
New or Returning Shows
The Shamrock Tenors: St Patrick's Night Concert, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Northern Ireland vocal group the Shamrock Tenors bring their international hit show home to the Ulster Hall in Belfast for a St Patrick's Night celebration.
This cross-community group of singers features West End stars and multi-instrumentalists who put their own modern twist on some of Irish music's most beloved melodies, and they're joined on stage by special guests and champion Irish dancers
Repeated at 10.40pm on BBC Four.
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, 7.40pm, Channel 4
An impressive line-up of Jodie Whittaker, Paloma Faith (below), Munya Chawawa and Spencer Matthews take part in the culinary challenge.
It’s presented by Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding, with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith passing judgment on the contestants’ baking skills.
For their Signature challenge, the celebs make cake pops, before taking on a twisted New York favourite in the Technical.
In the Showstopper, they have the daunting task of recreating Paul and Prue in biscuit form.
Hunted, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Back for a seventh season – they're obviously doing the business here.
It’s a social experiment in which people are given fugitive status and go on the run, taking extreme measures to avoid detection as expert 'hunters' track them down.
For the first time in the series, the 12 fugitives are on the run in London. Which makes this very interesting.
Making their escape from Piccadilly Circus, they are tracked by a hunter helicopter beaming live pictures to HQ.
New to Stream
Golda, Sky Cinema & NOW
Biopic starring Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin, Ellie Piercy, Rami Heuberger and Lior Ashkenazi.
Set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren) is faced with the potential of Israel's complete destruction.
As a result, she must navigate overwhelming odds, a sceptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber), with millions of lives in the balance.
Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world
Sunday Cinema
The Snapper, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
We’ve all seen it loads of times. And no one in Dublin calls a child a 'snapper'. But it’s still the best of The Barrytown Trilogy.
Stephen Frears' comedy drama, based on Roddy Doyle's novel, stars Tina Kellegher and Colm Meaney, who are both superb.
A 20-year-old woman from a large family announces she is pregnant but refuses to reveal the identity of the father.
Her zealously protective dad is determined to stand by her through thick and thin, but over the next nine months, small-town gossip starts to take its toll on him.
Family Flick
Cheaper By the Dozen, 4.00pm, RTÉ
Remake of the 1950 comedy, starring Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling and Hilary Duff.
A large family moves to a new town, hoping for a fresh start - but nothing goes according to plan, and the unlucky dad ends up in charge of his 12 rowdy children while his wife goes on a promotional book tour.
Sport
GAA Beo, 3.30pm, TG4
Mayo v Derry (throw-in 3.45pm) is the second of today’s games covered on TG4 and looks like being the pick of the bunch.
Micheál Ó Domhnaill introduces coverage of the Allianz Football League Division One fixture at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.
