What to watch on RTÉ Player this week? The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week.
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BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition
RTÉ arrived at this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in the most spectacular way! This year, RTÉ marked its presence with a brand-new, bespoke RTÉ/Samsung Virtual Reality Experience where visitors were able to go behind-the-scenes during RTÉ One’s News at One and RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford Show using cutting edge VR technology. This was just part of an exciting schedule of live RTÉ broadcasts, events and activities throughout the three-day exhibition at Dublin’s RDS which ran from Thursday 12th - Saturday 14th January. Today with Maura & Dáithí on RTÉ One reported live from the RTÉ set on Thursday. RTÉ2’s daily news bulletin, news2day reported from the event on Thursday and Friday, including a report from the winner of the bulletin’s ‘Reporter for a Day’ competition. Budding meteorologists had the chance to deliver the weather forecast each day with perennial favourite, Weather Wannabees. RTÉ News brought regular updates from the RDS across the event, while Nationwide on RTÉ One reported on previous winners. Not to mention soccer legend Rio Ferdinand showing up! RTÉ coverage from the event can be watched now on RTÉ Player.
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The seventh season of Blue Bloods has arrived from the other side of the Atlantic with Tom Selleck as New York Police Commissioner and patriarch of a multigenerational family of cops, Frank Reagan. The first episode sees Mark Wahlbergs character, Danny’s world turned upside down as the Attorney General’s Office obtains new evidence against him for shooting Thomas Wilder in self-defense. Meanwhile, the wife of a slain police officer asks Frank to talk her son out of joining the force. Watch now on RTÉ Player.
What not to miss?
Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan has brought a chat show with a difference to RTÉ One. So what’s so different about it? The guests remain a mystery until they walk out on stage! Neither Tommy, the studio audience or viewers at home have any idea. A master of improvisation, Tommy thrives on the adrenaline of no preparation and shows that bring him to the edge of a cliff. He realises that the mystery guest format has the potential for disaster…or some kind of delightful mess! But, as last year’s pilot episode for The Tommy Tiernan Show proved, in the hands of an inquisitive, articulate and intelligent man, with a great instinct for the hidden depths in everyday life, there is potential for great humour and freewheeling wildness. Recorded in front of a live audience, in the very studio where Tommy made his television debut with Gay Byrne all those years ago, The Tommy Tiernan Show incorporates stand-up, live music, sketches…and great chat! If you haven’t seen it yet – where have you been? Get to RTÉ Player now. You’re in for a real treat!
What’s coming up?
From mortgages to business loans, a small number of global financial giants have bought close to €200 billion in distressed Irish debt in recent years. What does the arrival of these so-called vulture funds mean for Ireland? Ian Kehoe, the editor of The Sunday Business Post, aims to answer this question in The Great Irish Sell Off, a documentary on RTÉ One. Kehoe travels to the US and to Spain to see how private equity and hedge funds have acted in other countries – from receiverships to rental hikes. He examines why so much of Ireland was sold off so quickly, and talks to people who are directly affected by the great Irish sell-off. The programme features a series of major interviews, including the US political activist Noam Chomsky, Adair Turner, the former head of the Financial Services Authority in Britain, the former IMF head of mission to Ireland Ashoka Mody and John Moran, the former top official at the Department of Finance. The programme also examines the sheer scale of tax avoidance by global vulture funds here, and the effect they are having on mortgage holders and business owners. The Great Irish Sell Off is available to watch now on RTÉ Player.
