January • 1 January –
RTÉ One's New Year's Eve celebrations include a special edition of
The Late Late Show at 10.15pm featuring a line up of guests including
Midge Ure,
Wheatus,
The Tumbling Paddies and the
RTÉ Concert Orchestra. This is followed by ''The New Year's Eve Countdown Concert
from Dublin Castle featuring Picture This and presented by Anna Geary. The Late Late Show'' is watched by an audience of 531,000 viewers, • 5 January – • The 2018 film
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! replaces
The Late Late Show at 9.35pm on RTÉ One as the talk show takes a one-week break after airing on New Year's Eve. •
Racecourse Media Group confirms a three-year extension of its contract with
Virgin Media Group to provide coverage of race meetings at 35 UK race courses. • 7 January – LGBTQ+ and HIV activist
Rebecca Tallon De Havilland presents the first edition of
Second Chances, a new wellbeing series on
Virgin Media One, and becomes the first openly trans Irish person to host their own TV series. • 8 January –
RTÉ One broadcasts
Sinéad, a documentary reflecting on the life of singer and musician
Sinéad O'Connor and her influence on Irish life. The documentary includes contributions from her fellow musicians, such as
David Holmes,
Christy Moore,
Imelda May,
Don Letts and
BP Fallon. • Former US late night talk show presenter
Conan O'Brien appears as a guest on
The Late Late Show during a visit to Ireland. • 14 January – Professional dancer
Laura Nolan performs two dances on the evening's edition of
Dancing with the Stars as she partners jockey
Davy Russell as well as actor
Shane Quigley Murphy because Russell's usual dance partner,
Kylee Vincent, is ill.
Karen Byrne also does not perform due to illness, meaning
Jason Smyth is partnered with Juliia Vasylenko. • 24 January – Ahead of the publication of a report the next day into the production
Toy Show The Musical, which was a commercial failure during its short run in 2022, it emerges that auditors
Grant Thornton found the musical was never formally approved by the
RTÉ Board. • 25 January – Publication of the
Grant Thornton report into the 2022 show
Toy Show The Musical, which finds that RTÉ's recording of the show's sponsorship money was "not in line with generally accepted accounting practices". • 26 January – • Following the previous day's release of the Grant Thornton report, Minister for Media
Catherine Martin says the present
RTÉ Board should remain in place "for now" to facilitate the broadcaster's day-to-day operation. • RTÉ and
Virgin Media Television release schedules for their joint coverage of the
2024 Six Nations Championship, which begins on 2 February. •
Bambie Thug is chosen to represent
Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "
Doomsday Blue". The winner is chosen by combined votes of the public vote, an international jury and a national jury on the
Late Late Show Eurosong Special. • 28 January –
The Sunday Independent reports that Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar favours abolishing the
TV licence in favour of government funding for RTÉ as part of a tax-cut package in the Coalition's
last budget before the
2024 general election. • 29 January – RTÉ publishes the names of its top 10 earners for 2022;
Ryan Tubridy was the broadcaster's top earner on
€515,000, followed by
Joe Duffy on €351,000, and
Claire Byrne on €320,883. • 31 January – A report by McCann Fitzgerald, the firm of solicitors appointed by RTÉ to conduct a review of its voluntary redundancy packages finds that there are ten instances that did not satisfy the requirements of a redundancy within the meaning of the Redundancy Payments Acts.
February • 1 February – Following the previous day's publication of the McCann Fitzgerald report,
Niamh Smyth, the chair of the Oireachtas Media Committee, calls for
Dee Forbes, the former
Director General of RTÉ, and former RTÉ Chair Moya Doherty, to make themselves available for its next sitting on 14 February. • 2 February –
Virgin Media One airs the opening match of the
2024 Six Nations Championship as Ireland take on France. The match is watched by 1.067 million viewers, while
The Late Late Show is seen by an audience of around 100,000. • 4 February – Figures published by
Coimisiún na Meán show that RTÉ received three quarters of viewer and listener complaints during 2023. • 5 February – It has emerged that Bambi Thug, Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant, has featured in an X-rated music video published on several
adult websites. • 9–10 February –
RTÉ News provides live coverage of the state funeral of former Taoiseach
John Bruton. • 13 February – Virgin Media secures the broadcast rights to 166 matches from the
UEFA Champions League from 2024 to 2024. • 16 February – Northern Ireland First Minister
Michelle O'Neill appears as a guest on
RTÉ's
The Late Late Show, where she says she wants to attend events important to the unionist community because it is important for politicians to "step outside of our traditional comfort zones". • 23 February – • Siún Ní Raghallaigh resigns as chair of the
RTÉ Board after Media Minister
Catherine Martin failed to express confidence in her following revelations Martin had been "misinformed" about the approval of an exit package for a former RTÉ executive. • Northern Ireland rappers
Kneecap make an appearance on
The Late Late Show during which they are seen wearing pro-Palestinian badges, while one member removes his jacket to reveal a Palestine sports top. RTÉ subsequently says that the band had agreed not to wear the badges before their appearance after being told doing so would breach the broadcaster's Content Guidelines. The programme is watched by an audience of 416,000, a fall of 21,000 on the previous week, while RTÉ receives two complaints about the band's appearance.
March • 9 March –
RTÉ2 shows the
Six Nations match between Ireland and England, which results in a last-minute win for England, with the game having an average audience of 971,000, peaking at 1.2m at 6.33pm. • 13 March – Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar rules himself out of participating in
Dancing with the Stars ahead of the season seven final. • 17 March –
Jason Smyth and professional dance partner
Karen Byrne win
series seven of
Dancing with the Stars. • 21 March –
Simon Harris confirms his intention to
run for Fine Gael leader on the evening's edition of the
Six One News. • 26 March –
BBC Sport Northern Ireland wins Best Sport Programme at the
Royal Television Society Awards for their coverage of the
2023 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final. • 29 March –
The Late Late Show takes a break for Easter, with the 2015 film
Brooklyn airing on RTÉ One in its place.
April • 5 April –
The Late Late Show returns to RTÉ One with a
GAA special to mark the beginning of the
2024 GAA Championship. • 16 April – Broadcaster
Paul Byrne launches High Court proceedings against Virgin Media Television over an internal disciplinary procedure brought against him by the company. • 20 April – The
20th Irish Film & Television Awards are held at the
Dublin Royal Convention Centre and hosted by
Baz Ashmawy. • 29 April – RTÉ2 airs the 2024 Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards.
May • 7 May – Ireland goes through to the
2024 Eurovision Song Contest final with its entry, "
Doomsday Blue" by
Bambie Thug, the country's first Eurovision final since 2018. • 10 May –
The Rise of Race Hatred, a
BBC Spotlight documentary exploring the rise in race hate attacks in Northern Ireland wins the nations and regions category at the
Amnesty UK Media Awards. • 11 May – Ireland's
Bambie Thug finishes in sixth place in the Eurovision Song Contest, marking the country's first top-10 finish since 2011.
June • 4 June – Paul Byrne resolves his legal action against Virgin Media over its decision to launch internal disciplinary proceedings against him. • 12 June – The
RTÉ Investigates program,
RTÉ Investigates: Horses – Making a Killing sets off a Europol probe on the Irish horse meat industry, launching actions by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and the European Commission to investigate.
July • 1 July –
Steve Carson is to step down as Head of Multi-Platform Commissioning at
BBC Scotland in September, in order to take up a senior role at
RTÉ. • 24 July –
RTÉ News bulletins are
geoblocked in Northern Ireland because of broadcast licencing issues over coverage of the
2024 Summer Olympics. • 25 July –
RTÉ confirms it will resume showing news broadcasts in Northern Ireland, although they will not be live during the Olympics.
October • 20 October –
Sinn Féin urges RTÉ to apologise after
Patrick Kielty used the term "the Sinn Féin traitors" during the 18 October broadcast of
The Late Late Show. • 28 October – The broadcast of Series 12 of ''
Ireland's Fittest Family'' is to be postponed following the death of contestant Cillian Flaherty.
November • 14 November – The 9th
Royal Television Society Northern Ireland Awards take place at
Titanic Belfast.
December • 6 December –
RTÉ2's programming block TRTÉ is rebranded to
RTÉ Kids. • 31 December –
RTÉ One's New Year's Eve celebrations include a special edition of
The Late Late Show at 10.20pm presented by
Patrick Kielty with performances from the
RTÉ Concert Orchestra. ==Debuts==