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From the Archives - Getting ready for the euro

50 days before the new euro currency goes into circulation, the Central Bank of Ireland shows off the new banknotes.

Business • 12 Nov 21

Anglo Irish Trade Agreement - 1965

The Anglo Irish Trade Agreement hailed a new era of relations and economic development between Ireland and Britain.

Archives • 14 Dec 20

Speaking to Joe Duffy by phone Niall O'Dowd, Editor of the Irish Voice, describes the appalling scenes in New York.

Archives: Breaking news of 9/11 attacks in 2001

It was during an episode of 'Liveline' 19 years ago that news broke of the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September 2001.

Archives • 11 Sep 20

Punters survey the field at the Ballybrit paddock in 1977

Archives: What's special about the Galway Races?

A look back at the 1977 festival, when all previous attendance and betting records were broken in an estimated £5 million spending spree at Ballybrit.

Archives • 27 Jul 20

Archives: Delivering the Budget down the years

Watch the evolution of the pre-budget photo call - from Jack Lynch at his desk in 1965 to Michael Noonan standing on the Dáil plinth in 2013.

Archives • 08 Oct 19

Cars queue at the border in Belleek, Co Fermanagh

Archives: Living on the border in 1988

Almost 30 years ago, RTÉ News travelled to the village of Belleek which lies within Co Fermanagh but part of it crosses the border into Co Donegal.

Archives • 04 Oct 19

Families soaked up the sunshine Portmarnock beach

Ireland in a heatwave - 1995

The heatwave of 1995 saw temperatures soar to 29 degrees

Archives • 27 Jun 19

On this day: President Kennedy visits Wexford Town - 1963

After taking tea with his relations at the ancestral farm in Dunganstown, President Kennedy went to Wexford Town.

Archives • 27 Jun 19

Welcome Mr Presidents - RTÉ Archives

A look back at how Ireland has welcomed US presidents in the past

Archives • 05 Jun 19

Samuel Beckett Bridge arrives in Dublin - 2009

Archives • 13 May 19

Nell McCafferty on being a court reporter - 1974

Born and raised in Derry, Nell McCafferty was a journalist with the Irish Times and a founder member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement.

News • 03 May 19

First Riverdance thrills Eurovision audience - 1994

The spellbinding act was first performed during the seven-minute interval at the Point Theatre, Dublin on 30 April 1994.

News • 30 Apr 19

Explaining the moving statues phenomenon - 1985

Archives • 15 Apr 19

U2 fans April fooled - 2009

In an elaborate April Fools' Day prank, tribute band 'U2opia' fooled fans with a live rooftop performance in Blackpool, Cork.

News • 01 Apr 19

Getting directions in rural Ireland - 1972

"The shortest way is through the fields," one man tells George Devlin of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'.

Archives • 15 Mar 19

Archives 1988: What do people think of a day dedicated to women?

How did International Women's Day begin? What do people think of a day dedicated to honouring women? - from the RTÉ Archives in 1988

World • 08 Mar 19

What are you giving up for Lent and why? - 1987

In March 1987 Shay Healy took to the streets of Dublin to find out what young people knew about Lent, what it meant to them and what they were giving up - if anything.

Archives • 04 Mar 19

John Hume on what it means to be Irish - 1989

The programme, presented by Professor Anthony Clare, was broadcast on 6 February 1989.

Archives • 06 Feb 19

The slowest journey from Longford to Dublin - 1965

In 1965 Joe Tuffy travelled from Longford to Dublin by steamroller. We still don't know why.

Archives • 05 Feb 19

Archives: New tilted shamrock for Aer Lingus rebrand - 1996

Ireland • 17 Jan 19

Remember this Young Scientist - crowned winner on her 18th

Take a look back at archive coverage of the 1976 Young Scientist competition when Co Monaghan's Mary Kelly was named the winner on her birthday.

Archives • 09 Jan 19

Charles Haughey pictured during the 1989 General Election (Pic: RTÉ Stills Library)

1989 Archives: Dáil fails to nominate a Taoiseach

For the first time in the history of the State, a Dáil failed to nominate a Taoiseach after the general election of 1989.

Election 2016 • 10 Mar 16

Britain's government is moving towards releasing records when they are 20 years old

Archives show Britain suspected Sinn Féin of fraud

Cabinet documents dating from July 1983, the month after a general election in Britain, disclose that the British government believed 25% of Sinn Féin’s vote had been garnered through "intimidation" and "personation".

News • 01 Aug 13

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