Radio Highlights: 25 years of LyricFM and RnaG's An Taobh Tuathail; Ailsha gets heavy on 2XM

Plus: Nero's Class are back to school on RTÉ Jr; and it's Studio 8 Week on 2FM, with Dan Hegarty celebrating some of the classic sessions recorded in the RTÉ Radio Centre performance space

L-R: Ailsha takes to RTÉ 2XM in new metal (and possibly nu-metal) show Amplify; an archive pic from 1999 of then-Arts minister Síle De Valera TD at the first broadcast of LyricFM in Limerick with Farrell Corcoran, then-Chairman, RTE Authority, and Michael Comyn, then-LyricFM presenter; Cian Ó Cíobháin also marks his 25th anniversary at the helm of An Taobh Tuathail.

SATURDAY 

Movies and Musicals with Aedín Gormley, LyricFM, 1pm: Celebrations of 25 years of LyricFM on our airwaves begin with the 25th-anniversary edition of this perennial weekend favourite.