January – Stories from the Twin Towers, a documentary about the September 11 terrorist attacks by RTÉ News journalists Caroline Bleahan and Jim Fahy wins the Gold World Medal for top 11 September documentary at The New York Festival's 45th annual Television Programming Awards.[1]
3 March – Tara Television, a cable and satellite channel that airs RTÉ programmes to the United Kingdom goes into liquidation.[1]
April
No events
May
7 May – RTÉ publishes its first annual Statement of Commitments.[1]
June
13 June – Cabin Fever, RTÉ's "Reality TV" ship sinks.[1] It had started on 1 June, and was scheduled to run for eight weeks, but was cancelled following the disaster.
An overhaul of RTÉ's internal structure creates new Integrated Business Divisions for Television, Radio, News, Publishing, Network and Performing Groups.[1]
Video self-editing becomes fully operational enabling RTÉ journalists to use videophone technology when filing reports from overseas. Clipmail is used to send a report from Liberia.[1]
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