The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week.
What’s Trending?
St. Patricks Festival & The Best of Ireland
The world turned green this weekend and viewers around the world were able to watch the festivities on RTÉ Player. There was the St. Patrick's Festival Parade live from Dublin as well as catch up on regional parades from across the North, South, East and West of Ireland.
To continue the Irish ‘love in’, celebrate all that Ireland has to offer with RTÉ Players ‘Best of Ireland’ collection including fantastic entertainment with The Rubberbandits Guides, The Nathan Carter Show, Garda Down Under and interview clips from The Late Late Show featuring some of Ireland's greatest including the nations sweetheart, Saoirse Ronan.
What's New?
Hardy Bucks returns to RTÉ2 with a brand-new series beginning Thursday, 22nd March at 10.35pm. However, the first episode of the brand-new series will be available to watch a whole 2 days before when it premieres exclusively on RTÉ Player Tuesday 20th March at 8pm.
If you can’t wait until Tuesday night to get your Hardy Bucks fix, you can box set binge your way through the Bank Holiday weekend with series 1 to 3 available to watch now on RTÉ Player!
What Not to Miss?
Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge
Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge returned for a new season this week exploring the big news stories making the headlines alongside the colourful nuggets that may have escaped the public's attention.
Joining Brendan for the first episode of the new series was Maia Dunphy, Jennifer O’Connell and Niall Boylan who shared his extraordinary story of his experiences with the Catholic Church and a Mother and Baby home.
Pick of the Week
Grow Cook Eat is the first series on RTÉ to respond to the burgeoning interest in growing your own food.
Presented by Michael Kelly and Karen O’Donohoe of Grow it Yourself (GIY), each programme focuses on a particular vegetable and takes you through the entire process, from sowing the seed, to harvesting and to cooking.
As well as the step-by-step guides to growing vegetables, there are features on building raised beds, making a compost heap, improving soil fertility and recipes. Programme one shows viewers how to grow Ireland’s most popular vegetable, the potato, from start to finish.
