With over 250 hours of live coverage, sports fans will be able to immerse themselves in the excitement of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which kick off on 26 July.
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 26 July 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.
Here’s how you can enjoy all the action across TV, radio, online, on-demand and streaming:
RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player
Olympics fans can watch 14 hours a day of coverage across three daily TV programmes on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, featuring an array of expertise on Olympic sports including athletics, swimming, boxing, rowing, gymnastics, badminton, and rugby sevens.
And the rugby opens RTÉ2 coverage at 4pm on Wednesday July 24 as Darragh Maloney presents coverage of the men’s rugby sevens Pool A match at Stade de France between Ireland and South Africa (KO 4.30pm).
Evanne Ní Chuilinn presents Paris Olympics 2024: AM as the action begins in Paris each morning. Peter Collins will be at the helm for Paris Olympics 2024: Today in the afternoons, and Paris Olympics: 2024 Tonight will be presented by Darragh Maloney and Joanne Cantwell.
RTÉ’s line-up of studio experts includes Andrew Bree and Gráinne Murphy (Swimming), Derval O’Rourke, Rob Heffernan and Sonia O’Sullivan, (Athletics) Bernard Dunne and Kenny Egan (Boxing), Johnny Bell (Hockey), Mairéad Kavanagh (Gymnastics), Scott Evans (Badminton) and Annalise Murphy (Sailing) amongst a host of others.
Online
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.
Radio
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 celebrate 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.
Listeners can get their Olympics fix in advance with 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 the RTÉ Radio Player.
On-demand
A brand new RTÉ Olympic Podcast series will be available each morning with the definitive daily digest of the day’s action and upcoming events from RTÉ journalists and special guests.
From 20 July, 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.
RTÉ’s Paris Olympics 2024 live coverage will begin on 26 July at 6pm as the Opening Ceremony gets under way in the French capital. Presented by Peter Collins from along the River Seine, tune in to see approximately 10,500 athletes cross through the centre of Paris on boats.
