€3m RTÉ spend on mammoth digitisation of archive footage

Ciaran Fitzgerald leads the Irish team onto the field at Lansdowne Road in March 1985. Ireland’s Triple Crown victory in that year is part of RTÉ's vast collection.

RTÉ is set to spend more than €3m on the digitalisation of hundreds of thousands of video and audio recordings dating back to 1950 “as a matter of some urgency”.

The public broadcaster has put out an invitation to tender for the mammoth task, which will be completed over the course of four years at an indicated cost of €3,225,000.