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RTE’s Storyland wants your votes

RTE’s online web series voting competition is up and running again. The national broadcaster is asking you to vote on five mini-series which features programmes about butchers, zombies and a free-running, free-spirit electronic producer called XL. Watch the competing web series.

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Videos of The Week: RTE broadcasts an icy fall, The best bloopers, Black Metal

An Icy fall The now infamous RTE News clip of an unfortunate man falling on the ice in Dublin last week proves we still love a bit of slapstick. Within 3 days, the video had racked up 215,000 views. The Best Bloopers ever Fishing show presenter Bill Dance must hold the world record for the most number of [...]

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Sites of the Week

1. RTE Player RTE’s version of the BBC iPlayer debuted last week and offers an impressive limited catchup service of most RTE-aired programs and an intuitive interface. http://www.rte.ie/player/ 2. Look at This Fucking Hipster A hipster can be defined as “one who is exceptionally interested in the latest trends and tastes” and here’s pictures of some really annoying ones. http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/ 3.This [...]

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RTE launches catchup player

Yesterday, RTE debuted the beta version of their online video catchup service, their own version of the BBC iPlayer and first impressions are good. The RTE player makes more than 200 hours of RTE programming available including news, sport, current affairs, movies and entertainment programmes. It’s got a slick Flash interface and with very low [...]

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Videos of the Week: Fight Like Apes, Monkey, Fleet Foxes, RTE

Fight Like Apes – Digif**ker A strange unofficial video made by students of New York’s Tisch School of the Arts featuring eerie females miming to the song in soft-focus. RTE goes RED A new daily Youtube show from RTE called RED which features a guy called Stephen presenting his own programme with friends, special guests and bands [...]

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