This week on The Late Late Show we want to put a spring in your step with €10,000 in tax-free cash up for grabs!
That's plenty to spoil yourself with in the shops...OR enough for your DREAM holiday this Summer, whether it's wilderness ... beach.... or bright city lights!
You could use the cash to take a welcome break from your bills, or put the money towards a brand new car. Get your garden summer-ready, or take on that DIY project you've been dreaming about.
How you spend the cash, is totally up to you!
For your chance to get your hands on the €10,000 cash prize, answer this week's question:
According to popular legend, which of these is Saint Patrick said to have banished from Ireland?
Snakes
Slugs
Spiders
To enter, call or text the competition line:
ROI: 1517 71 71 81
text the word LATE followed by your answer and name to 57886 (ROI only).
Each call entry from an eir network landline costs €2.03. Calls from mobiles will cost more. Each text entry costs €2.50 + standard network rate. .
Entry open to ROI residents only due to regulatory restrictions.
Please note the person named in the entry must be aged 18 years or older as at date of entry. This competition will close at 10.50pm on Friday, 20th March 2026. Please do not enter after this time as you will be charged for your entry, but your entry will not be included. If required, the entrant must be available to take a call from The Late Late Show and/or Patrick Kielty on 20/03/26. If the entrant fails to take/answer the call or is deemed by RTÉ to have answered the question incorrectly, the entrant forfeits his/her opportunity to win. Winner details will also be posted here once they have been contacted and verified. Participation/entry denotes acceptance of all associated terms and conditions as listed below.
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COMPETITION TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
Service Provider: Fonix Tel: 01 5541999.
This competition is open to Republic of Ireland residents only.
Each text entry must contain no more than 160 characters including spaces, otherwise you may be charged an additional cost for every subsequent message. The use of emoji/smiley faces will also incur an additional charge and may vary with operators.
Please do not enter outside of the advertised competition open and close times and date(s) as you will be charged, but your entry will not be included in the draw. Competition may be closed if watching on catch-up services, please check dates and times. There will be a further chance to enter this competition during The Late Late Show on 20/03/26.
Entrants must be aged 18 years or older as at date of entry and a resident of the Republic of Ireland. Promoter reserves the right to request proof of age, verifiable by birth cert or passport only, and proof of residency, verifiable by recent utility bill only (issued within 6 months of win).
Prize for 1 winner is €10,000, issued as a euro cheque made payable to the winner only (allow 28 days delivery of cheque).
Employees of RTÉ, Fonix and their associated promotional partners, companies or suppliers and their immediate family members are not eligible to enter/win.
In the event that a call to a finalist(s) cannot be completed on-air due to technical issues on the part of RTÉ or time restrictions, RTÉ reserves the right to announce the winner(s) on-air on next week's show, in which case the finalist(s) will not be required to take Patrick’s call, in order to be deemed the winner(s).
RTÉ's decision in relation to selection of winner is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Any personal data relating to competition entrants will be used in accordance with current Irish data protection legislation and best practice. Please see RTÉ Privacy Policy for further details. Data relating to entrants will be retained by RTÉ for a reasonable period after the competition closes to assist RTÉ to operate competitions in a consistent manner and to deal with any queries.
For the purposes of administration of the competition prize, it is a contractual necessity that RTÉ shares the winning entrant(s) personal data with the competition promotional partners.
Where you have provided RTÉ with your personal data you have a right to be given a copy of your personal data subject to certain exceptions. To exercise your rights in respect of your personal data please see RTÉ’s Data Subject Rights Guide
RTÉ standard competition terms and conditions also apply.
