Join RTÉ at The Ploughing 2025
RTÉ brings three days of live radio, live entertainment, live news, live weather, personal appearances, and more
Join RTÉ Radio 1: Morning Ireland, The Oliver Callan Show, The Louise Duffy Show, The Ray D’Arcy Show, Countrywide with Philip Boucher Hayes
Join RTÉ 2FM: 2fm Drive with Doireann Garrihy and 2fm Morning with Laura Fox
Join RTÉ Gold: Will Leahy Special Show
Join RTÉ’s Behind the Story podcast with David McCullagh, Katie Hannon and Fran McNulty
Plus: The Traitors Ireland, The Late Late Show owl, Nationwide, Ireland’s Fittest Family, live RTÉ News and Weather and more
RTÉ returns to the National Ploughing Championships (‘The Ploughing’) from 16th – 18th September with an exciting and wide-ranging schedule of live programmes and live performances from the RTÉ tent over three days in Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
From live radio broadcasts with some of your RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm and RTÉ Gold favourites to RTÉ’s Behind the Story podcast live on stage and from a special Nationwide programme with Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh to a chance to meet the Home Rescue team, as well as a unique opportunity to step inside a Traitors cloak on the Traitors Ireland installation – and the return of the Late Late Show owl – RTÉ has something for everyone at The Ploughing this year.
>>>RTÉ at THE PLOUGHING: THE HIGHLIGHTS
RTÉ presenters, Nuala Carey & Maria Shaler and Meteorologists, Gerry Murphy (Tuesday) and Siobhán Ryan (Wednesday) will bring you the weather live from Ploughing 2025, four times a day.
DAY ONE: Tuesday 16th September
9.00 – 10.00: Oliver Callan on RTÉ Radio 1 (presented by Dermot Whelan)
10.00 – 11.00: Behind The Story podcast (Katie Hannon, Fran McNulty and David McCullagh)
12.00 – 13.00: The Louise Duffy Show on RTÉ Radio 1
15.00 – 16.30: The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1
18.01: RTÉ Six One News & Weather on RTÉ One
***10.00 – 16.00: Get your photo in a Traitors Ireland cloak / with the Late Late Show owl
DAY TWO: Wednesday 17th September
7.00 – 9.00: Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1
9.30 – 11.00: Will Leahy Special Show on RTÉ Gold
13.30 – 14.00 Meet the Home Rescue team (Dee Coleman, Peter Finn and Aidan Gately)
15.00 – 18.00: 2fm Drive with Doireann Garrihy on RTÉ 2fm
****10.00 – 16.00: Get your photo in a Traitors Ireland cloak / with the Late Late Show owl
DAY THREE: Thursday 18th September
9.00 – 12.00: 2fm Morning with Laura Fox on RTÉ 2fm*
12.15 – 12.45: Ireland Fittest Family challenge
13.00 – 14.00: Countrywide with Philip Boucher Hayes on RTÉ Radio 1 (pre-record for Saturday’s programme)
15.00 – 17.00: Live Thin Lizzy/Phil Lynott tribute performance from Peter M. Smith and Black Rose DC
***10.00 – 16.00: Get your photo in a Traitors Ireland cloak / with the Late Late Show owl
>>> AND THERE’S MORE ON THE RTÉ STAGE AT THE PLOUGHING
- Ireland’s Fittest Family: Take the Hang Tough Challenge with referee, Paul O’Donovan.
- RTÉ Weather: RTÉ presenters, Nuala Carey & Maria Shaler and Meteorologists, Gerry Murphy (Tuesday) and Siobhán Ryan (Wednesday) will bring you the weather live from Ploughing 2025, four times a day.
- Live performance from Peter M. Smith and Black Rose DC in advance of their January show in 3arena with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (The Dedication to Phil Lynott)
For more RTÉ at The Ploughing updates, keep an eye on RTÉs social media platforms – Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X and #RTEPloughing.
ENDS
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Neil O’Gorman | Corporate Communications Manager, RTÉ | neil.ogorman@rte.ie