RTÉ announces bumper Olympics coverage

RTÉ has announced details of its extensive coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 

Paris 2024 will see the largest-ever Irish contingent travel to the Olympics, with 133 athletes competing across a wider array of sports than ever before.

Viewers won’t miss a minute with RTÉ’s Olympics coverage from the spectacular Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 26 on the banks of the River Seine, to equestrian events at Versailles Palace, boxing from Roland Garros Stadium to Ireland’s hockey team competing at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium – where Team Ireland first competed in 1924.  

RTÉ will deliver over 250 hours of live action from France across RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, with three live daily programmes, live coverage of the main events on RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2FM and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta as well as a brand new RTÉ Olympic Podcast series available each morning with the definitive daily digest of the day’s action and upcoming events from RTÉ journalists and special guests. 

RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News app will provide up-to-the-minute action from Paris 2024, with the results and reactions from all the Irish athletes on each day published as they happen via live blogs as well as athlete profiles, exclusive highlights and video interviews, analysis from RTÉ’s team of pundits, and all the breaking news from Paris.

Olympics fans will be able to watch 14 hours a day of coverage across three daily TV programmes on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, featuring a stellar array of expertise on Olympic sports including athletics, swimming, boxing, rowing, gymnastics, badminton, and rugby sevens. 

Group Head of RTÉ Sport, Declan McBennett, said “rarely from an Irish perspective have we had such a level of anticipation and expectation heading into an Olympic games. RTÉ Sport will be there for the key events, the reactions and hopefully the medal moments as the best athletes we have across so many disciplines not only take on, but match and better the best in the world.”

RTÉ Radio 1 will have live coverage of the major action and updates starting on?Morning Ireland ?and continuing throughout the day from the RTÉ Radio Studio at the Paris Olympic Broadcast Centre. Listeners will miss none of the main events with regular updates on?Today with Claire Byrne; News At One;?The Ray D’Arcy Show?and?Drivetime.  A special Olympic Nights programme presented by John Creedon will serve a diet of music and action until all the Irish events are completed for the day. At weekends, key events from Paris will be broadcast live, and Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport will have comprehensive coverage along with the usual GAA Championship action and other sports coverage.

RTÉ 2FM will have live action and regular updates from Paris, with?Game On? wrapping up the day’s news, reports and action. 2FM will also be celebrating some of Ireland’s greatest Olympic moments in a series of packages presented by Aindriú de Paor.

Each weekday morning RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s Sports Editor, Gearóidín Nic an Iomaire will take listeners through the day’s events on the station’s current affairs programme, Adhmhaidin. There will also be live commentary, updates, reports, and interviews throughout the day. At weekends, Raidió na Gaeltachta will provide comprehensive coverage of the games on Spórt an tSathairn, Spórt an Tráthnóna and Spórt an Lae.

As well as live coverage, viewers can get their Olympics fix in advance with content currently available including Chapters of Magnificence, an 11-part series featuring interviews with Irish Olympic medallists, which continues this Sunday 21 July at 7.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1 with Fintan McCarthy and on RTÉ Radio Player. From July 20, all the individual stories of all athletes featured in Path to Paris will drop on RTÉ Player. The series documents the journey of Ireland’s top medal prospects, including sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke, boxing champion Kellie Harrington and gymnast Rhys McClenaghan ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics.

The RTÉ social accounts will have exclusive content and video from Paris.