The Taoiseach says ensuring new schools open despite the collapse of the building company involved is a government priority.

The show follows Cork teenagers Conor and Jock and follows on from the hit movie on which the series is based.

Last night, RTÉ premiered The Doireann Project on its online player.

A carer from Dublin has said she had to ring 999 from her hospital bed to get the fire brigade to make sure her husband was okay.

A woman from Blanchardstown has appealed for the return of her late mother’s jewellery after it was stolen from her father’s home last night.

In recent days Minister for Health Simon Harris acknowledged that thousands of extra beds are needed at acute hospitals or community facilities if anticipated demand is to be met.

He may live in the nearest thing we have to a palace, yet, in his annual Christmas message from the grandeur of Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday, President Higgins exuded more empathy and personal connection with Ireland’s homeless than many of our senior politicians.

There is a disquieting culture of violence in Ireland’s Travelling community. Monday’s shooting in west Dublin, in which a woman, an eight-month-old baby, and a boy (17) were injured by a shotgun blast is the latest example of inter-family feuding violence.

LATEST: It has been stated this evening that Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald was not informed of a phone call between Nóirín O’Sullivan and the Department of Justice over the adversarial legal strategy towards Maurice McCabe at the the O’Higgins Tribunal.

An investigation by RTÉ has found that hospital consultants in 14 out of the country's 47 acute public hospitals treated more private patients than they were allowed to under a contract agreed with the HSE.

One of the two daughters of a Cork man sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for sexually abusing them over a number of years has told RTÉ Radio One's Today with Sean O'Rourke programme that she still loves her father.

Women employed by RTÉ are more likely to occupy the lowest paid roles in the organisation than men and are vastly outnumbered in the highest paid categories.

A Cork man whose wife and daughter were killed in a road crash has expressed his disappointment that a new law regarding unaccompanied learner drivers has not come into force.

The head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Sean Fleming, has claimed the Government "infected the garda process" of deciding what Garda stations should be re-opened.

RTÉ has removed an interview with the parents of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar from its website following queries about a member of the Taoiseach’s staff who can be heard giving instructions to Mr Varadkar’s mother.

The boss of RTÉ has said funds raised from selling almost nine acres of its Montrose land to Cairn Homes for €107.5m will be invested in improving the public broadcaster’s services as well as reducing debt.

A two-year-old child suffered terror on almost a daily basis for five months while in the care of a creche exposed by RTÉ on its A Breach of Trust documentary in 2013, a judge heard yesterday.

RTÉ has appointed auctioneers to sell up to four acres of prime land, valued at €50m, at Donnybrook in Dublin.

Newstalk hit out at RTÉ yesterday evening after they lost their 22-game live GAA championship games to the national broadcaster.

Kilkenny hurling legend Henry Shefflin delves into the concept of winning in a new documentary to be aired on RTÉ One on Monday at 9.35pm.

The big games are coming thick and fast for Dundalk as the champions continue the defence of their league crown at home to Derry City tonight (7.45pm, live on RTÉ 2).

In his interview with RTÉ, Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed the tax codes were so complex that a print-out would reach to the ceiling. 

A post from the Facebook account of the Down Rose, Fainche McCormack, has criticised the Rose of Tralee as well as a documentary by RTÉ on the event.

Spare a thought for the poor guys on TV3 last night, as they were stuck showing Belgium v Sweden, while seemingly most of the country watched Ireland v Italy on RTÉ.

National broadcasters, TV3 and RTÉ have taken extra security measures to ensure the safety of their staff covering the Uefa Euro championship.

RTÉ has provisionally recommended selling up to 10 acres of the Montrose campus over the next year, ahead of a report on the management of its assets going to the Minister for Communications.

After my own experiences regarding information from the HSE or doctors/consultants, I can avowedly dispute the HSE’s spurious claims of April 12 on RTÉ News that anyone on a long waiting list will be told about the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS).

An Irish film based on a story by a West Cork-born writer about young male suicide in modern Ireland, is broadcast on RTÉ tonight.

I was intrigued by Ruth Dudley Edwards statement during the the Prime Time debate on RTÉ 1 on Wednesday, 23rd March, when she said that she was proud of the 240,000 Irishmen who had fought in WWI saying that they saved us from terrible consequences that would have ensued if Germany had won the Great War.

The Green Party has launched a High Court challenge against RTÉ over its failure to include the party’s leader, Eamon Ryan, in a party leaders’ debate to be broadcast on February 15.

The cash pile at the media firm owned by one of RTÉ’s top earners, Joe Duffy, almost doubled to €419,000 last year.

THE hijacking by RTÉ of our National Song Contest went unchecked, and the country was the loser. But, now, RTÉ have the gall to kidnap the contest within their walls, and bypass songwriters throughout the country.

Several elected councillors agreed to lobby on behalf of a dummy company set up by RTÉ in return for cash or the promise of cash.

Runaway league leaders Dundalk will be hot favourites to keep their double dream alive when they host Longford Town at Oriel Park in the first of this year’s FAI Cup semi-finals this evening (kick off 7.25pm, live on RTÉ 2).

For the second year in a row, RTÉ has managed to post a modest pre-tax surplus — but the national broadcaster has admitted it is concerned at the rising number of homes which do not have a television set.

A film commissioned by University College Cork, to be screened on RTÉ next month, explores the impact of mathematician George Boole’s work on technology today.

It is not often RTE makes a programme that is wonderful to watch as the Wild Atlantic Way with its three shows of 60 minutes each made by RTÉ Cork and shown the last thre Sundays on RTÉ One.