He also was a contributor to RTÉ radio and television, the BBC, UTV and Sky News.

In the first debate, held on RTÉ Radio 1's News at One, Norris promised the electorate he would have no difficulty in either visiting Israel or in meeting Pope Benedict XVI as President of Ireland.

In the first debate, held on RTÉ Radio 1's News at One, Scallon explained she had delayed her entry into the race due to numerous family bereavements.

* Barnes to stay on as Abbey Theatre director — RTÉ News

* Arts Council voices concern over Abbey — RTÉ News

* Resignations — RTÉ News.

In September 2003, News 2 reverted to the regular RTÉ News format ( as RTÉ News on Two ).

RTÉ News and Current Affairs also have their London bureau at the same location.

* McKevitt loses appeal over terrorism sentence — RTÉ News article

On a special RTÉ News programme that day, a number of Fianna Fáil TDs came on the air and publicly backed Martin for the leadership.

Charles Gerald Mitchel ( 8 November 1920 – 18 August 1996 ) was an Irish actor and broadcaster best known as a newsreader for the RTÉ News from 1961 until 1984.

In an interview on the RTÉ News: Six One on the 14 September 2009 Róisín Shortall of the Labour Party claimed that O ' Donoghue had underestimated the public's anger, of what she labelled, his " junketeering ".

On 14 July 2005 RTÉ News reported on their business website that Denis O ' Brien had withdrawn from bidding, and that it was understood that Eircom was the top bidder at € 410 million.

On RTÉ channels, with the exception of RTÉ News Now, there is also a rating system on top of the basic watershed system.

* Mass grave uncovered in Mongolia RTÉ News, Thursday, 12 June 2003

Ervine did not die until Monday 8 January 2007, however it was reported by RTÉ News at 9pm and on their website on the previous evening Sunday 7 January, that he had died that day.

* RTÉ News reports on past ceremonies:

The former is now the flagship programme of RTÉ News and Current Affairs on radio while the latter has evolved into the current Drivetime programme via Five Seven Live.

In June 2010, a false article was posted on Indymedia. ie using the name of RTÉ News reporter Bethan Kilfoil which claimed that the Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, Jnr had died ; the story was repeated across the internet.

RTÉ journalist Charlie Bird claimed in a report that while an employee of National Irish Bank Flynn had assisted clients of the bank in evading tax by funnelling undeclared income to Clerical Medical schemes based in the Isle of Man.

On 29 May 2012 RTÉ apologises after it emerged a member of their graphics team had airbrushed the logo of a TV3 microphone during a news report on the 27 May edition of the programme.

In March 2009, RTÉ News at Nine O ' Clock carried a report on 2 oil paintings depicting Brian Cowen, then-Taoiseach ( prime minister ) of Ireland, in the nude that were briefly displayed in Dublin art galleries in March 2009 as an act of guerilla art.

Fine Gael TD Michael W. D ' Arcy called it the " most distasteful report I have seen on RTÉ in years ".

* RTÉ News report on Pet Passports ( RealPlayer video stream )

In March 2009, RTÉ was involved in controversy over a report about the placing of naked paintings of Taoiseach Brian Cowen in two Dublin Art Galleries.

On 8 December 2005, he resigned his cabinet post after an RTÉ News report that a building contractor involved in public contracts had painted his house for free in the early 1990s.

The Cardinal told RTÉ News in an interview, broadcast in December 2009 after the publication of the Murphy Report, that he was confident Bishop Donal Murray of Limerick will “ do the right thing ” in terms of considering his position in the wake of criticism in the Dublin diocesan report.

His first report as Washington correspondent was on RTÉ News: Nine O ' Clock about US Airways Flight 1549.

The show was pitched directly to the UK's Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 by the duo, contrary to rumours that RTÉ ( the Irish national broadcaster ) were originally offered the series but rejected it.

For a number of years both Tolka Row and The Riordans were produced by RTÉ, soon however the urban soap was dropped for the more popular rural soap opera The Riordans – which began in 1965.

It was originally broadcast on RTÉ One in the early 1990s before the existence of TG4.

Ardiles was enlisted by RTÉ Sport for their squad of pundits ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

He discussed his views in a 2011 interview with RTÉ, ( also known as Raidió Teilifís Éireann ), in which he said his wife was conceived through a rape and he says had her mother aborted her, or dumped her in the Ohio River as she had considered, his wife would not exist.

It was released as a single in the UK in 1994, credited to " Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra ".

* A concert performance in 2008 by Opera Ireland of Balfe's Falstaff was originally broadcast by RTÉ Lyric FM and later released on CD as RTÉ LyricFM LYRICCD119, available from Naxos.

About ten years after the incident, RTÉ attempted to interview the young officer with regard to the allegations but as a serving officer he was unable to comment.

While O ' Higgins's campaign was ignored by RTÉ, de Valera appeared in RTÉ coverage of the Rising events regularly.

The campaign was enhanced and hyped up by a live debate on RTÉ between Haughey and the Fine Gael leader, Garret FitzGerald, over the major issues.

Worse was to follow when Seán Doherty, the man who as Minister for Justice had taken the blame for the phone-tapping scandal of the early 1980s, went on RTÉ television, and after ten years of insisting that Haughey knew nothing of the tapping, claimed that Haughey had known and authorised it.

The obsequy was screened live on RTÉ One and watched by a quarter of a million people.

Worse was to follow when Seán Doherty, the man who as Minister for Justice had taken the blame for the phone-tapping scandal of the early 1980s, went on RTÉ television and said that Haughey had known and authorised the phone-tapping.

Its first legal advisor was Mary McAleese, Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College, Dublin, future President of Ireland ; she served as legal advisor from 1975 to 1979, when she left her professorial position to join RTÉ.

In 2010 he was named " Ireland's Greatest " in a public poll by Irish national broadcaster RTÉ to find the greatest person in Ireland's history.

In Ireland, the show aired on Network 2's children's strand The Den until its final number of seasons when it was felt that the series had become too grown up for younger children, RTÉ moved the series to a prime time slot on Friday evenings.

RTÉ responded by publishing the unused results of the Irish televote, which showed that had the jury not been used, Turkey, whose entry was also overlooked by the Irish Jury, would still have won.

DVB-T has repeatedly been tested from RTÉ Network Limited's Three Rock Mountain transmitter, with relatively long tests in 1998 and 2001, and shorter tests in 2004, with a single multiplex carrying the four Irish analogue terrestrial channels, and Tara Television while it was in existence, on both UHF ( channel 26 ) and VHF ( channel D ).

A contract to run a nationwide system, with six multiplexes from main sites, and four from relay sites was awarded in 2001 to ITS Digital Limited, led by former RTÉ executive, Mr Peter Branagan and trading as " It's TV ", who intended to launch a pay TV and broadband service.

It was initially proposed that RTÉ Television would operate the free-to-air public service multiplex, RTÉNL would provide the relevant broadcasting technologies and a third party would provide the pay or subscription service.

RTÉ publicly confirmed on 14 May 2010 Easy TV was " declining their offer to pursue negotiations " on the DTT contract.

RTÉ said the combined offering was designed to be the most cost-effective solution for viewers and broadcasters ; to offer for the first time 100 % coverage of free-to-air public service television services in Ireland ; and to provide full national back-up coverage on satellite in the event of an emergency or catastrophic failure of the DTT system.