Schedule of RTÉ broadcasts for Holy Week and the Easter Triduum
Palm Sunday 28 March
RTÉ News Channel, 2.15pm Mass: the Cathedral of SS. Patrick and Felim, celebrated by Bishop Martin Hayes https://www.churchservices.tv/cavancathedral
Monday 29 March
RTÉ News Channel, 10.30am Mass: Holy Family Church, Ardfinnan, Co Tipperary, celebrated by Fr Michael Toomey
https://www.churchservices.tv/ardfinnan
Tuesday 30 March
RTÉ News Channel, 10.30am Mass: Mary Immaculate Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines, Dublin, celebrated by Fr Andrew O'Sullivan
https://www.churchservices.tv/maryimmacdublin
Wednesday 31 March
RTÉ News Channel, 10.30am Mass: Star of the Sea Church, Riverchapel, Courtown, Wexford, celebrated by Fr Tom Dalton
https://www.churchservices.tv/riverchapel
Holy Thursday 1 April
RTÉ One, 4.40pm (repeated on Radio 1 Extra / LW252 at 7.00pm) Mass of the Lord's Supper
Celebrated by Fr Martin Smith (Chaplain, Carlow IT) with members of RTÉ Cor Linn.
Good Friday 2 April
RTÉ One / Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 3.00pm–4.00pm Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday
From Knock Basilica. Chief celebrant is the Rector of the National Shrine, Monsignor Richard Gibbons. The choir is the Schola Cantorum Basilicae directed by Úna Nolan; the organist is Mark Keane.
Searmanas na Páise
Searmanas Aoine an Chéasta beo ó Shéipéal Ghobnatan i gCúil Aodha, Co. Chorcaigh.
Holy Saturday 3 April
RTÉ One, 12.00 noon: Countdown to Calvary (repeat)
Downton Abbey star and Cambridge University theology graduate, Hugh Bonneville, tells the story of the last days of Jesus' life.
RTÉ One / Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 11.00pm–12.15am: Easter Vigil Mass
From Knock Basilica (which is to be recognised by Pope Francis on 19 March as an International Marian and Eucharistic Shrine). Chief celebrant is the Rector of the National Shrine, Monsignor Richard Gibbons. The choir is the Schola Cantorum Basilicae directed by Úna Nolan, and the organist is Mark Keane. 10.40pm–11.55pm on RTÉ One. (Radio will air this Mass with a slight delay at 11.00pm)
Easter Sunday 4 April
RTÉ One / Radio 1 Extra / LW252, 10.00am–11.00am: Easter Sunday Mass
From La Carità COVID hospital in Locarno, Switzerland, celebrated by the Archpriest of Locarno, Fr Carmelo Andreatta, with commentary and translation by Fr Thomas McCarthy OP. (This Mass will air with a delay on Radio 1 Extra / LW252 in our regular slot at 11.00am–12.00 noon).
11.00am–11.45am: Mass in Irish on Radió na Gaeltachta
Aifreann an Domhnaigh ó Shéipéal Ghobnatan i gCúil Aodha, Co. Chorcaigh.
Pope Francis' Easter Urbi et Orbi Message and Blessing
12.25-12.55 (approx.) Follows live coverage of the 1916 commemoration by President Michael D. Higgins