Speaking about the Christmas schedule, Glen Killane, Managing Director, RTÉ Television said:

“I’m proud to unveil such a strong and varied Christmas schedule full of quality home-produced programming in such challenging economic times.”

These include:

“Now That’s What You Called News is a revealing Top 20 countdown of some of the biggest, most interesting, colourful and bizarre news stories we explored online over the past twelve months. Presented by Craig Doyle.”

“The return of Mrs Brown’s Boys to RTÉ One for a Christmas special, in which Agnes tries to put together the perfect Christmas for her family.”

“Derek Mooney will present Mooney Tunes, a unique collaboration between RTÉ Radio 1’s Mooney radio show, the RTÉ concert orchestra and the RTÉ radio audience, which comes to television for the first time from the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin.”

RTE Announce Christmas Highlights (RTE)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHxrMDeIbY

And it’s really rather good.

Centre Brendan Macken on his team’s flight home from Italy at the weekend.

Thanks Stephen Devine

What’s more worrying is that this might actually be a serious ad.

Carroward, Kilrooskey, Co. Roscommon (Daft.ie)

Thanks Enda Crowley

Now, that‘s a band of cloud.

Satellite image at 6am this morning.

From Met Eireann:

Going nowhere.

Today’s Leinster Leader.

Thanks Ciaran McKoen