Dancing with the Stars

Television: Celebrity dancers have much to improve on, but this new season will clearly be entertaining

Jan 3rd-9th highlights: RTÉ favourites like Room to Improve return, BBC crime dramas reboot and streaming giants unleash big-budget programmes

Everything you need to know about the glitzy RTÉ series as it returns to screens

Mabuse replaces Loraine Barry, while Laura Fox will step in to co-host show in 2026

Choreographer lived with cystic fibrosis from the age of 2

If Benson glittered fabulously on RTÉ’s Dancing with the Stars, his story was much bigger than any one TV series

Performer joined the judging panel of RTÉ’s Dancing with the Stars in 2017

Television: Jack Woolley also receives two rounds of perfect scores, despite ripping his trousers

Television: The DWTS final will see four celebrities battle it out for the Glitterball Trophy this weekend - here is everything you need to know

Me & My Money: Broadcaster says she is a saver who does not like to shop

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Television: Former Miss Universe Ireland Aishah Akorede is landed with her third dance-off in four weeks. What's up?

Radio: The new presenters get off to the good start the station needs after the calamity of its biggest stars leaving in a single week

Radio: The host, who quit the RTÉ station nine months ago, triggering an exodus, is back in the drivetime seat

‘I screwed up and never recovered,’ says Farrelly as judges hand him a collective thumbs down on orchestra night

Judge Arthur Gourounlian looks stunned when his critique of Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan and Laura Nolan earns a prominent boo from the audience

‘I’ve had the time of my life,’ says Joanna Donnelly after judges save former Miss Universe Ireland Aishah Akorede

Television:Taekwondo Olympian Jack Woolley recalls how Kellie Harrington was there for him after he was viciously attacked in Dublin: ‘I needed plastic surgery ... she was the first person that turned out’

Dancing with the Stars: Ireland AM’s Elaine Crowley is second contestant to go from show

The choreographer and former Dancing with the Stars judge on living with cystic fibrosis and his CF charity

Television review: ‘It’s been great craic,’ says the Donegal Eurovision singer Mikey Joe Harte. ‘I made so many friends’

Television: week two of DWTS 2025 sees goosebumps abound and emotions flow

Recently married Dancing with the Stars co-host has learned to tread carefully when it comes to putting her life online

Television: Olympians Jack Woolley and Rhys McClenaghan are clear front-runners as RTÉ’s dance competition returns for its 2025 season

January 5th-10th – including Dancing with the Stars, Michael Lynn: The Fugitive and Neven’s Portuguese Food Trails

Everything you need to know about RTÉ’s new season of the competition for the glitterball trophy

Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear

It’s a family affair for the retired champion jockey and horse breeder. Having renovated the family home in Co Cork, Davy and Edelle built a home for his father, Jerry, next door

Here are the stories you need to start your day including what you need to know when hiring cleaners, childminders or carers

Paralympian Jason Smyth and pro-dance partner Karen Byrne lift the glitterball trophy after ‘a lesson of what you can do in life’

Television review: The jockey falls at the final hurdle in this season’s Dancing with the Stars semi-final

March 10th-16th: From Is University Really Worth It? and The End of the World with Beanz to Italian-Spanish romance Un Amore

Television: ‘I kind of feel numb right now. It’s a memory I won’t forget’, says Katja Mia on exit from show

Television Review: “Oh the mum guilt, it gets ya!” quips host Jennifer Zamparelli as former Miss World is latest celebrity to be eliminated from Dancing with the Stars

Television: Former RTÉ news reader says she ‘enjoyed every moment’ on the show

Television: Blu Hydrangea has what it takes to win after excelling with a Paso Doble to RuPaul’s Sissy That Walk during Dedicated Dance Week

Patrick Freyne: ‘Have all the money that you want and spend it on what you like,’ the TD would have told the majesterial Lorraine Barry

Television review: Dancing with the Stars takes a sour turn as Virgin Media presenter Katja Mia reveals she was subjected to online abuse

Television: Dancing with the Stars often takes its time to achieve lift-off. Four weeks in, this season is at last coming together

Rory Cowan is the obvious candidate for an early exit, but he’s pushed all the way by jockey Davy Russell