The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week.
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The Late Late Show Valentines Special
Last nights’ Valentine’s Special of The Late Late Show did not disappoint! In case you missed it or you simply want to relive the best moments, watch the full show or clips of each individual performance and interview now on RTÉ Player! If that’s not enough luurrve for this very romantic weekend, reminisce on last years’ show as Ryan plays ‘Cilla’ in a ‘Blind Date’ style dating game with cheeky chappie, Deano making his best attempt to ‘woo’ Amanda with a totally inappropriate tale.
Watch one girl’s face literally fall as she comes to terms with the fact that the ‘cupid of crooning’ is not wee Daniel but Mario Rosenstock doing his best impression! Sing along with some of the greatest power ballads of all time with Johnny Logan, Chris De Burgh and Bonnie Tyler! All this and more in The Late Late love zone on RTÉ Player.
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In 2016, 188 people tragically lost their lives on the roads in Ireland. In this hard-hitting documentary, we hear from the loved ones who grieve for them, giving viewers a first-person account of what it’s like to lose someone on the road. With powerful testimony from parents, siblings, grandparents, children and grandchildren, this documentary goes behind the statistics and makes clear the enormous impact of each and every loss of life. Among the stories are the families of Andrew Roche (23) and Michael Madigan (28) who both passed away after the car in which they were traveling crashed into a van.
Neither were wearing seat belts. Tom and Margaret Kelly describe the emptiness of losing both their daughter and their grandson in the same crash. Sabina Collman discusses the accident that killed her 37 year old husband, Russell and the fact that she could no longer bear to live in the home where she learned of her husband’s death.
We hear the sad story of musician Colin Vearncombe (53) who had a worldwide hit with the song “Wonderful Life” in the eighties under the name Black and died just as he was about to become a grandfather when his car skidded on black ice while Kathleen Pender Lynch’s (57) daughter and granddaughter describe the loss of a fun-loving Kathleen, who loved fashion, Joe Dolan and her family. Watch After the Crash now on RTÉ Player.
What not to miss?
From the team behind the investigations into suicide charity Console, failings in Ireland’s foster care system, the Áras Attracta Care Home, Portlaoise Hospital and Ireland’s Crèches, the RTÉ Investigations Unit reveals the painful reality behind the numbers on hospital waiting lists in Ireland.
We follow patients who spend months and sometimes even years waiting to see a doctor or have treatment. How, as time passes, their conditions worsen and the long-term impact can be far-reaching. How the impact goes far beyond the numbers on the waiting lists as families and friends are affected. Watch Living on The List now on RTÉ Player.
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Last weeks’ episode of Room to Improve had Dermot Bannon getting more than he bargained for with sprout farmer Enda and his extraordinary self-build project. Watch as Dermot struggles to keep up and adapt the design as Enda, and his crew of family and farmhands plough ahead with the build in Room to Improve on RTÉ Player.
As an added extra, RTÉ Player met with Dermot to take a look back at his most memorable moments of the show to date. Share in the joy of a 12 year old little boy as Dermot redesigns a 1970’s semi-d in Malahide to suit the needs of wheelchair bound Michael. Or watch ‘the one with the concrete wall’ as jet-lagged long haul pilot, Ian, remains unconvinced about Dermot’s vision to build a massive concrete feature wall in an attempt to put a contemporary stamp on a 1930’s home in Drogheda.
Revisit the house that started out as an architects’ dream but quickly became a builder’s nightmare as Dermot and the team discover a ‘monster’ living in the walls of an 1850’s Coach house in Maynooth. Sympathise with a bewildered Dermot as he revises the build in order to realign the energies and natural elements of a gloomy little 1950’s bungalow in Nenagh with a Feng Shui expert.
