1 January – RTÉ One's New Year's Eve celebrations include a special edition of The Late Late Show at 10.15pm featuring a line up of guests including Midge Ure, Wheatus, The Tumbling Paddies and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. This is followed by The New Year's Eve Countdown Concert from Dublin Castle featuring Picture This and presented by Anna Geary.[1][2]The Late Late Show is watched by an audience of 531,000 viewers,[3] while viewers take to social media to comment on the lack of a presenter to ring in the New Year during the coverage of The New Year's Eve Countdown, which instead sees Picture This playing one of their songs up until ten seconds to midnight, followed by an onscreen countdown.[4]
Racecourse Media Group confirms a three-year extension of its contract with Virgin Media Group to provide coverage of race meetings at 35 UK race courses.[5]
7 January – LGBTQ+ and HIV activist Rebecca Tallon De Havilland presents the first edition of Second Chances, a new wellbeing series on Virgin Media One, and becomes the first openly trans Irish person to host their own TV series.[6]
24 January – Ahead of the publication of a report the next day into the production Toy Show The Musical, which was a commercial failure during its short run in 2022, it emerges that auditors Grant Thornton found the musical was never formally approved by the RTÉ Board.[12]
25 January – Publication of the Grant Thornton report into the 2022 show Toy Show The Musical, which finds that RTÉ's recording of the show's sponsorship money was "not in line with generally accepted accounting practices".[13]
26 January –
Following the previous day's release of the Grant Thornton report, Minister for Media Catherine Martin says the present RTÉ Board should remain in place "for now" to facilitate the broadcaster's day-to-day operation.[14]
29 January – RTÉ publishes the names of its top 10 earners for 2022; Ryan Tubridy was the broadcaster's top earner on €515,000, followed by Joe Duffy on €351,000, and Claire Byrne on €320,883.[18]
31 January – A report by McCann Fitzgerald, the firm of solicitors appointed by RTÉ to conduct a review of its voluntary redundancy packages finds that there are ten instances that did not satisfy the requirements of a redundancy within the meaning of the Redundancy Payments Acts.[19]
February
1 February – Following the previous day's publication of the McCann Fitzgerald report, Niamh Smyth, the chair of the Oireachtas Media Committee, calls for Dee Forbes, the former Director General of RTÉ, and former RTÉ Chair Moya Doherty, to make themselves available for its next sitting on 14 February.[20]
2 February – Virgin Media One airs the opening match of the 2024 Six Nations Championship as Ireland take on France. The match is watched by 1.067 million viewers, while The Late Late Show is seen by an audience of around 100,000.[21]
4 February – Figures published by Coimisiún na Meán show that RTÉ received three quarters of viewer and listener complaints during 2023.[22]
5 February – It has emerged that Bambi Thug, Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant, has featured in an X-rated music video published on several adult websites.[23]