At 6.45pm on this day 100 years ago, Saturday November 14 th  the first test transmissions begin ‘Hallo hallo hallo, aye aye aye, hallo ...

2025 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of one of Ireland's unique radio experiments. This is the story of RTE's Radio Liberties  Al...

  Ireland has had a long, colourful and unique place in broadcasting history and as we enter a decade of radio centenaries, we look back at ...

  We have harvested wood and bogs to heat and cook, we’ve tamed rivers to provide electricity and now we have harnessed the wind, the oceans...

The history books tell us that the forerunner of RTE Radio One, 2RN began broadcasting on January 1 st 1926. The callsign 2RN had been assi...

In part two of our salute to the men who brought 2RN to the airwaves in January 1926, we look at the engineers who bought the Marconi transm...

  Peter Eckersley was a famous name associated with the early days of radio in the United Kingdom. A sometimes eccentric extrovert, he was i...