I, understandably, didn't take many pictures before the @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena Culture Night special on Friday, but I do think our guests were fantastic. You can listen back www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.

I was in Japan on holliers, there are photos. Pop over to www.facebook.com/therickoshea/ or www.instagram.com/therickoshea for the lot...

Do you know a young reader (16-24) who could help us select the next Laureate na nÓg? Applications close next Friday - we'd particularly love to hear from young people from underrepresented backgrounds or communities. More information + application form childrenslaureate.ie/young-reader...

I, understandably, didn't take many pictures before the @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena Culture Night special on Friday, but I do think our guests were fantastic. You can listen back www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.

Tonight on Arena it's our Culture Night spectacular live from Studio 1! We'll be joined by @olionaird.bsky.social, Tolu Makay, Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, MacDara Yeates, Christine Dwyer Hickey and many more. Tonight from the earlier time of 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.

I was in Japan on holliers, there are photos. Pop over to www.facebook.com/therickoshea/ or www.instagram.com/therickoshea for the lot...

Poet Gerard Smyth joined @rickoshea.bsky.social Shea on @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena to speak about his friendship with Gerald Dawe, ahead of our Home Again celebration event taking place this Sunday. Book your tickets here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/hom...

Miss Arena last night? It was a busy one. You can listen back any time... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Live on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social from 7 with a look back at the career of Robert Redford, the director and one of the stars of new Irish film Girls And Boys, Cormac Begley on Tradition Now in the NCH, and author Caragh Maxwell talks about her novel Sugartown... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

ICYMI last night I talked to Ian McEwan about his new books, we looked back at 50 years of Patti Smith's Horses, and found out all about the career of Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Come see me and Hazel Gaynor talk about books we love....

Back on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social from 7. Coming?

This should be enough, right? See you back on Arena in a few weeks...

*chefs kiss*

Tonight on Arena, Cian Sweeney playing from his new project As If I Always Knew, Nicola Barker on her new novel TonyInterruptor, and we'll look at the best, and worst, chemistry in the movies. Tonight from 6.30 @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back wherever you get your podcasts.

A fine first night of the week on Arena with new Irish theatre at the Dublin Fringe, one of the voices from Frozen with the @rteco.rte.ie, and picking apart 40 years of Studio Ghibli with @johnmaguire.bsky.social. Listen back here or wherever you get your podcasts. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

That was some album review slot tonight. Swords out🤺 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

And in case you missed them... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

And in case you missed them... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Tonight on Arena it's TV and album reviews. We'll be looking at Hostage, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, and the new albums from Kingfishr and Wolf Alice among others... From 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Sigh. Very cross about this.

Tonight on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social, amongst other things, I'll be talking to stars Pierce Brosnan and Tom Ellis and director Chris Colombus about The Thursday Murder Club... youtu.be/fXOl8dIPQAU?...

And you can listen back right now... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Himself is here... Drop him a follow.

And you can listen back right now... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I could hear the soundcheck in Inchicore earlier today. It's going to be loud...

Tonight on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social I'm joined by Nuala O'Connor, director of the new documentary 'In Time - Dónal Lunny', Dee Kinahan and Steve Wickham talk about their new show 'Songs and Souls', and Bobbi Byrne and Soso Ní Cheallaigh on their new Dublin Fringe show. Tonight from 6.30...

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

we have both computers and science fiction because Byron was so insufferable it inspired all the women around him to come up with elaborate reasons to get away

You can listen back right now... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Tonight on Arena I talk to Theo from Wolf Alice about their new album, Suranne Jones about her leading role in the new @netflix.com series Hostage, and this guy... Tonight from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.

Wow.

Not that @thejournal.ie polls change anything, but.... www.thejournal.ie/news-segment...

Tonight on Arena I talk to Theo from Wolf Alice about their new album, Suranne Jones about her leading role in the new @netflix.com series Hostage, and this guy... Tonight from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.

You can listen back either on the @rte.ie radio app, wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

STEWART LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! mcd.ie/artists/stew... *ahem* Nice.

Same.

I have nothing but the highest admiration for them and the decision they have made, and even greater admiration for @stingingfly.bsky.social for backing them.....

On tonight's Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social I'll be talking to @johnmeaghermedia.bsky.social about how Oasis were, Eva Victor about her directorial debut 'Sorry, Baby', and Gabriele Uboldi will be talking about Lessons On Revolution, coming to the Dublin Fringe. Tonight from 6.30...

A quick thing. All I've posted here really in the last few weeks has been plugs or "you can listen back" links to Arena. Unsurprisingly it's a very, very all-absorbing job (as well as being an incredibly satisfying one!) It's all you're going to be getting from me for the next while, at least. x

It was a long and varied week on Arena. Led Zeppelin, trad and baroque music, new film and TV, two new plays at the Fringe... Listen back to it all at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts. Hope you can join me all next week from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.

Lot of thunder and lightning here in Tralee at the moment as this year's Rose contestants are summoned into existence

RTE news is hiring journalists: www.candidatemanager.net/cm/p/pJobDet...

It was a long and varied week on Arena. Led Zeppelin, trad and baroque music, new film and TV, two new plays at the Fringe... Listen back to it all at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts. Hope you can join me all next week from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.

Tonight on Arena it's Friday, so it's TV and music review night. We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp. Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Tonight on Arena it's Friday, so it's TV and music review night. We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp. Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Miss it? Well worth the listen back... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Tonight on Arena I'm talking to former Bad Seed Mick Harvey about These Are The Waves in Dundalk next month, and we review new films Materialists, Nobody 2, and Oslo Stories: Love, and the new production of Conor Mc Pherson's play The Weir. Tonight at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.

Just as things seem at their darkest, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is back. Thanks be to jeebus... www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Please dm me if you can help.