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1970 In Irish Television
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1970. Events *21 March – Ireland wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, Eurovision Song Contest, held in Amsterdam, for the first time with ''All Kinds of Everything'' sung by Dana Rosemary Scallon, Dana. *May – Television in Finland, Finnish Television airs a four-hour broadcast of RTÉ programmes titled ''Ireland Tonight''. The broadcast includes ''King of the Road'', a film of the life of a Tipperary roadworker, the children's series ''Wanderly Wagon'', ''Guests of the Nation'', a dramatisation of Frank O'Connor's short story; ''Ballad Sheet'', ''July the Mad Month'', a film on the the Troubles, political and religious situation in Northern Ireland, and ''Sports Magazine''. *6 May – RTÉ broadcasts seven hours of news coverage on the dismissal of cabinet members by the Taoiseach. *9 May – Gerry Collins (politician), Gerry Collins is appointed Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. *Undated – As the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Ireland
Television in the Republic of Ireland is available through a variety of platforms. The digital terrestrial television service is known as Saorview and is the primary source of broadcast television since analogue transmissions ended on 24 October 2012. Digital satellite (from Sky Ireland, Saorsat and other European satellite service providers are available) and digital cable (from Virgin Media Ireland) are also widely used. The Irish satellite fill-in service (Saorsat) is via Ka-Sat using the Irish KA band spot and has been available since June 2011. While many people receive their television via Saorview, which is broadcast by 2RN, more than half subscribe to multichannel television networks. The biggest single multichannel television network in Ireland is Sky Ireland, which broadcasts digital satellite television services. Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone TV and Eir among others, provide similar digital television services to Irish viewers. History Television was first recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine O'Clock
''Nine O'Clock'' is a Romanian English-language newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a .... The newspaper consists mainly of sections related to politics, business, sports, culture, Romania-related news and weather. External links * 1991 establishments in Romania Publications established in 1991 English-language newspapers published in Europe Newspapers published in Bucharest Mass media in Romania {{Romania-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 In Ireland
Events in the year 1970 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Éamon de Valera * Taoiseach: Jack Lynch ( FF) * Tánaiste: Erskine H. Childers ( FF) * Minister for Finance: ** Charles Haughey ( FF) (until 7 May 1970) ** George Colley ( FF) (from 9 May 1970) * Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh * Dáil: 19th * Seanad: 12th Events * 10 January – Huge anti-apartheid demonstrations took place as Ireland played South Africa in rugby union. * 10 January – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. * 11 January – The Sinn Féin party split into '' Provisional'' and ''Official'' wings over a disagreement on abstentionism. * February – A rock from the surface of the Moon, brought to Earth by the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, was displayed to the public at the United States embassy in Ballsbridge. * 29 March – Irish language pirate radio station Saor Raidió Chonamara began broadcasting. * 3 April – Garda (policeman) Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Devine
Alan Devine (born 1970) is an Irish people, Irish actor. Early life and education Devine was born in County Galway in 1970. He has played minor roles in several films. Devine graduated with honours from Trinity College Dublin, where he studied philosophy and sociology. He has since pursued a career of acting in both film and on the stage. There his credits include numerous stage roles, including various works of Shakespeare. Career Devine appeared in the rural drama ''Glenroe'' during the 1990s as Ray O'Driscoll, who fled the country after he killed his brother Oliver in 1999. This storyline was one of the biggest storylines the show had in the 1990s. His film roles include portraying the Irish criminal Gerry Hutch, Gerry “The Monk” Hutch in the movie ''Veronica Guerin (movie), Veronica Guerin''. He has received credit for work in several other films and television including ''King Arthur (2004 film), King Arthur'', ''Nora (2000 film), Nora'', ''Ghostwood'' (where he pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Doyle
Craig Doyle (born 17 December 1970, Dublin) is an Irish television and radio presenter. To British viewers he is recognisable as working for the BBC and ITV and more recently BT Sport. Irish viewers also know him as the host of RTÉ One chat show ''Tonight with Craig Doyle'' and RTÉ Two's'' Craig Doyle Live''. He is the main anchor on BT Sport Premiership, European Champions Cup rugby coverage and MotoGP motorcycle racing. Craig has also been a presenter on ITV's Rugby World Cup coverage. Early life Doyle grew up in the Dublin suburb of Stillorgan. Educated in Blackrock College. He studied sociology and history at Maynooth, followed by the London College of Printing, where he earned a diploma in broadcast journalism. Broadcasting career After graduation, Doyle worked on local radio with BBC Radio Suffolk based in Ipswich, before moving on to ITV to present the children's show ''Disney Club'' in 1995, having been head hunted following a chance meeting with a producer from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maura Derrane
Maura Catherine Derrane (born 8 July 1970) is an Irish television presenter and journalist. She currently works for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), having previously worked for TV3 and TG4. Derrane is a from Inishmore, County Galway. She previously worked as a researcher for RTÉ News in Galway. In 1996, she moved to TG4 as a news reporter. From 1998, she worked for TV3 News. She worked as a news reporter and crime correspondent. From 2004 to 2006, she was a co-presenter on ''Ireland AM''. She has presented three series of ''Feirm Factor'' on TG4. Derrane presented ''The Afternoon Show'' from October 2009, with Sheana Keane. The programme was dropped after the launch of the 2010 new season of RTÉ Television, and replaced by two other afternoon chat shows. '' Four Live'' was presented by Derrane, and was followed by ''The Daily Show'' presented by Dáithí Ó Sé and Claire Byrne. These ended in March 2012. ''Today Today (archaically to-day) may refer to: * Day of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7 Days (Ireland)
''7 Days'' (previously ''Seven Days'') is an Irish current affairs television programme presented by Brian Farrell, Brian Cleeve and John O'Donoghue which was broadcast on RTÉ One from 1966 until 1976. History Background ''Seven Days'' was created by RTÉ One as a replacement for the existing programme '' Sixty Six''. It was developed at a time when the station was expanding its current affairs programming. New innovations included having TDs and senators from all parties giving their opinions on Dáil proceedings instead of the political correspondents of the daily newspapers.''The Irish Times'', "More public affairs in RTÉ schedule", 15 September 1966 Broadcast live on Monday evenings between 8:45pm and 9:15pm, it quickly became RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme. ''Seven Days'' was broadcast for the first time on 26 September 1966. Presenters John O'Donoghue, Brian Cleeve and Brian Farrell were the first presenters of ''Seven Days''. All three had earli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver (Irish TV Show)
''Quicksilver'' was a television quiz show produced and broadcast in Ireland by RTÉ and hosted by Bunny Carr from 1965 to 1981. The show was broadcast each week from a different Irish town, with a live audience. Competitors were selected from the audience by drawing numbered tickets, prompting many amusing exchanges as they competed for small monetary prizes by answering a series of trivia questions. Musical accompaniment was provided by organist Norman Metcalfe, who frequently provided musical hints to the answers. The centre-piece was a large board with 30 illuminated numbers that indicated remaining prizes. After the host read the question, the lights went out one-by-one (approximately one each second) until either the contestant gave the correct answer or seven lights went out. With each correct answer, each remaining light became worth an increasing amount of money – pre-decimalisation, the progression went 1 shilling, 2 shillings, 5 shillings, 10 shillings, £1, and £5; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riordans
''The Riordans'' was the second Irish television drama serial made by Raidio Telefís Éireann (then called ''Telefís Éireann''). It ran from 1965 to 1979 and was set in the fictional townland of Leestown in County Kilkenny. Its location filming with Outside Broadcast Units, rather than using only TV studios, broke the mould of broadcasting in the soap opera genre and inspired the creation of its British equivalent, ''Emmerdale Farm'' (now called ''Emmerdale'') by Yorkshire Television in 1972. Plot The show was called ''The Riordans'' after the name of the central family, consisting of the middle-aged parents, Tom and Mary, and their oldest son, Benjy, as well as the latter's siblings Michael and Jude, who had left farming for other careers and had more adventurous personal lives. Other leading characters included the family doctor, his Protestant gentry-born wife, the (radical Vatican II-oriented) Catholic priest, the conservative Church of Ireland rector, the local pub ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsbeat (Irish TV Series)
''Newsbeat'' was a Telefís Éireann television current and regional affairs programme presented by Frank Hall and broadcast in Ireland live on weekday evenings from 1964 until 1971. Background ''Newsbeat'' was created by Telefís Éireann as a replacement for the station's flagship current affairs programme ''Broadsheet''. The programme was originally broadcast live from Monday to Friday between 6:01pm and 6:40pm. It was the first television programme by Telefís Éireann to be jointly produced by the News and Programming divisions of the new station. Content and style The programme opened with a ten-minute summary of the news and, unlike ''Broadsheet'', concentrated on more off-beat and light-hearted regional filmed reports and unscripted interviews from around Ireland. Frank Hall, as well as being editor of the programme, was also the main presenter. He was assisted in reporting duties by Michael Ryan and Cathal O'Shannon. ''News'' and ''Newsbeat'' were subsequently split ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Late Late Show (Ireland)
''The Late Late Show'', with its title often shortened to ''The Late Late'', is an Irish chat show. It is the world's second longest-running late-night talk show, after the American ''The Tonight Show''. Perceived as the official flagship television programme of the Republic of Ireland's public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), it is regarded as an Irish television institution, and is broadcast live across two hours plus in front of a studio audience on Friday nights between September and May at 21.30. Certain segments are sometimes pre-recorded and aired within the live parts of the show. Having maintained the same name and format continuously, ''The Late Late Show'' was first broadcast on Friday, 6 July 1962 at 23.20 and in colour from 1976. Originating as temporary summer filler for a niche Saturday night audience (airing at 23.30), it later moved to its current home on Friday night schedules. The format has remained largely the same throughout—dialog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six One
6 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 6 or six may also refer to: * AD 6, the sixth year of the AD era * 6 BC, the sixth year before the AD era * The month of June Science * Carbon, the element with atomic number 6 * 6 Hebe, an asteroid People * Alphonse Six (1890–1914), Belgian football player * Didier Six (born 1954), former French international footballer * Franz Six (1909–1975), Nazi official * Frederick N. Six (born 1929), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court * James Six (1731–1793), British scientist * Jan Six (1616-1700), an important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age * Robert Six (1907–1986), Chief Executive Officer of Continental Airlines between 1936 and 1981 * Regine Sixt, German businessperson * Valérie Six (born 1963), French politician * Perri 6 (an extremely rare surname), social scientist * Six family, family of regents of Amsterdam, founded by Jan Six Music * Six (band), an Irish pop band created by a TV reality show * ''Six'' (musical), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |