RTÉ hit by major internet outage

Internal emails were sent out in the past half hour to inform all employees and staff that the station was have issues.

RTÉ experienced a major internet outage at its headquarters in south Dublin on Thursday evening, with internal systems reportedly down across the organisation.

The disruption affected the broadcaster’s app and website, while the Six One News programme is also understood to be experiencing difficulties.

In a statement, RTÉ said: “We are currently experiencing technical difficulties impacting RTÉ’s online services. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we hope to be fully back online soon.” 

No cause for the outage has yet been identified.

Internal emails were sent out in the past half hour to inform all employees and staff that the station was struggling.

"We have been told they don't know what has caused it yet, but everything is down".