Find out about where to watch and listen to Irish-language television and radio. If you’re watching a tv program, try watching without English subtitles if you can.
Television programs #
RTÉ often has programs in Irish, and if you don’t catch them live, you can find them on the RTÉ Player by searching on ‘Gaeilge’. Try Scannal, an interesting investigative series that covers significant events in the recent past.
Tune into TG4 at any time of day and you’ll find programs in Irish, or you can search the TG4 player archives to find others. Catch up on an episode or two of Ros na Rún, an easy-going drama based in a fictitious village in Conamara, or Bailte, a chatty documentary about the towns of Ireland, or Laochra Gael, if you follow GAA.
If you’re not in Ireland, you can watch TG4 live online from anywhere in the world.
Programs for children are now available on the cúla4 channel.
BBC Gaeilge also broadcasts Irish-language programs, and you can also watch them back later if you prefer .
You can also find a wealth of Irish-language programs and videos on YouTube – just make a search on ‘Gaeilge’. Try an episode of Scúp, a comedy series set in a newspaper office in Belfast.
Radio programs #
There are several radio stations that broadcast entirely in Irish—RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Raidió Rí-Rá, Raidió na Life, and Raidió Fáilte.
Other radio stations often have Irish-language programs regularly in their schedules – for example, An Nuacht on RTÉ Radio 1 or Hit 30 na hÉireann on SPIN South West.
