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Watch Now: RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival Awards 2025

Ballyduff Drama Group from County Waterford has been crowned winner of the 2025 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival for their production of The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín, adapted for stage by David Horan.

Theatre • 22 May

Representatives of the nine 2025 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival (AIDF) finalists with the Perpetual Trophy

RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival final to livestream on RTÉ Culture

Amateur drama takes centre stage at the 2025 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival (AIDF), promising a feast of drama, an action-packed fringe festival and a livestreamed event.

Theatre • 13 May

Ballyduff Drama Group were crowned the RTÉ All Ireland Drama champions

Waterford acting group scoops top drama award

Ballyduff Drama Group, directed by Ger Canning, were crowned RTÉ All Ireland Drama champions at the Gala Awards ceremony in Athlone's Radisson Blu Hotel last night.

Theatre • 14 May 24

Members of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland and Committee Members of the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival at the recent draw for Festival Week

Finalists Confirmed for 2024 RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival

The RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival, which is held under the auspices of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland, will run from Thursday May 2nd to Friday May 10th, 2024.

Theatre • 23 Apr 24

Ballyduff Drama Group are crowned the winners of RTÉ All Ireland Drama Champions

Ballyduff Drama Group triumph at RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival

Theatre • 17 May 22

RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival - watch The Interval Act

Theatre • 07 May 21

RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival - the curtain rises

It was an exhausting circuit: 25 amateur drama groups taking to the four corners of Ireland competing at 36 local drama festivals in a bid to be one of the 9 who finally make it to Athlone for the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival finals this May.

RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival • 30 Apr 19

RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival takes centre stage

The RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival has officially kicked off and the crème de la crème of amateur dramatics find themselves in Athlone, waiting for their moment in the spotlight.

Theatre • 08 May 18

Celebrating the RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival - stage by stage

RTÉ Karina Buckley celebrates the particular magic of the RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival, which runs until this Saturday.

Theatre • 11 May 17

1971: John B. Keane (centre, back row) welcomes guests to Listowel Writers Week

Altering States - the regional development of the arts in Ireland

'Altering States: 100 Years of the Arts in Ireland' is a series which takes a thematic look at how the arts fared in Independent Ireland on into our own time.

RTE Radio 1 • 19 May 17

RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival preview: TV Scriptwriting 101

Fair City Series Consultant (and former Home And Away alumni) Sam Atwell is giving a workshop at this year's RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival, which kicks off on Thursday, May 4th - by way of a preview, here are his Ten Golden Rules Of TV Scriptwriting.

fair city • 03 May 17

RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival