Thursday TV Tips: Inspirational engineering in a time of crisis
Off the Bench - Engineering
Pádraigín Riggs from Tipperary but now living in Cork is this week's guest. She was a lecturer of literature in the Department of Modern Irish at UCC.
Entrepreneurs include an Irish inventor who has come up with some quirky pet products, and a pair of optometrists who are hoping the Dragons can see the potential in anti-blue-light filtering. A schoolteacher brings in her range of low-sugar children's jams.
Season 7 of the super-powered adventures. When an experiment to save Barry’s speed backfires, Nash Wells searches for a way to save The Flash and comes up with a dangerous plan. Meanwhile, Iris makes a startling realisation inside the Mirrorverse and Cecile faces off with Rosa Dillon.
After more than 1,000 covid-related deaths in nursing homes in the first wave of the pandemic, RTÉ Investigates asks whether lessons that should have been learnt, were, when the third wave hit this January.
June and Luke work together to save Hannah, and Janine tries to assist Aunt Lydia when a Handmaid-in-training goes on hunger strike.
An inspiring story of coming together at a time of crisis. Medical device experts and academics based at NUI Galway worked with medics at University Hospital Galway to produce life-saving medical devices during the first COVID-19 surge in 2020. We see how a ventilator was split to treat two patients instead of one and other innovations.
Episode 1 of a three-part drama starring Pat Shortt. Two Irish 20-something’s leave Ireland to kick-start their adult lives, but the daily battleground of London life threatens to swallow them whole and spit them back to Ireland.
Golf: Irish Open, day one at Mount Juliet. RTÉ2, 10am and 4pm
RTÉ 1, 7pm: American writer, Lisa Tallon, talks to Seán Rocks about her new book — which sees a woman take a cross-country journey to reclaim the narrative around her past.
RTÉ 2FM, 10pm: Among the long-running show's usual salvo of new Irish and international music, Dan Hegarty presents highlights of UK soul superstar Michael Kiwanuka's as-live set for BBC's 6Music Festival earlier this year.
