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Ireland's Classical Music & Arts Station.🎙#wherelifesoundsbetter 🎶☘️
Joined January 2010
Our thoughts are with bass clarinettist Ralph Yarl who was shot by the occupant of a home in Kansas City, Missouri when he accidently knocked on the wrong front door - intending to collect his younger siblings from the address.
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Head into the weekend with the attitude of this dog! Thanks to @lyriclorcan for finding this gem of a video 🤣
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A big thank you to everyone who continues to listen to RTÉ lyric fm on a daily basis and a big welcome to all our new listeners . #jnlr #wherelifesoundsbetter #rtelyricfm
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Congratulations to our wonderful presenter, colleague and friend George Hamilton as he celebrates 21 years of The Hamilton Scores on RTÉ lyric fm this week! @HamiltonRTE @explore_rte
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Closing this year's Met Gala (the star-studded annual fundraising ball annually marking the first Monday in May), pop star Lizzo duetted with esteemed Irish flautist Sir James Galway performing a rendition of Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee". We love this duo!💜☘️.#MetGala
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We're delighted to announce the appointment of Sinéad Wylde as Head of RTÉ lyric fm. We wish her the very best in her new role.
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Thank you to our loyal listeners for tuning in - all 282,000 of you! We hope you continue to enjoy the music. #WhereLifeSoundsBetter #JNLR
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☘️Lá Fhéile Pádraig. No Marty Whelans were harmed in the making of this video. @martylyricfm . Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of our lyric listeners, wherever you are celebrating.💜 #RTÉlyricfm #WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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Marty In The Morning, Weekdays 7-10am. Coming to you live since 68 A.D. Marty is timeless, and so are we.
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Thanks for all the birthday wishes and an incredible night 🥳. @martylyricfm .@theNiallCarroll .@lizlyricfm .@LyricLorcan.@lyricmoviemusic.@Paullyricfm .@HamiltonRTE .@evelynlyric. #RTÉlyric25.#WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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GOLD for @lyricmoviemusic for the Movies and Musicals: Sondheim Special at tonight’s @IMRORadioAwards 🎉🏆
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Great news for RTÉ radio today. We're delighted with our increase in listenership - thanks to all 294,000 of you! #JNLR #lovelyric.
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Congratulations to @martylyricfm and the team on winning bronze for Music Special @IMRORadioAwards #IMRO19
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We are very saddened to hear of the passing of the Internationally renowned Veronica Dunne. Her musical legacy will live on through her memorable performances, recordings and through those that she taught. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam
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24 years of RTÉ lyric fm.💜. On 1 May 1999, the country’s newest national radio station Lyric FM went on air from its modern state of the art studios in Limerick. Presenter Michael Comyn made the opening broadcast for the station. Recognise anyone?🤔. 📸RTÉ Archive
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We are thrilled with today's news that our listenership figures have been rising significantly and we are so grateful to you all for tuning in. A big welcome to our most recent listeners and we look forward to continuing to play great music to accompany these strange times. #jnlr
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RTÉ lyric fm first went on-air 22 years ago today! We're so grateful to all our listeners, collaborators, contributors, colleagues and friends who have been on this musical journey with us over the years. Now, altogether -"Happy birthday to you. "
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#Welcome to our 23,000 new listeners! #JLNR “a haven for beautiful music where listeners come to unwind . a dynamic and diverse space where listeners also come to be stimulated and brought on exciting musical adventures.” Sinéad Wylde, Head of @RTElyricfm #WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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Yarl is currently recovering at home from his injuries. The talented sixteen-year-old holds a second chair position in the Missouri All-State Band memeber of the Northland Symphony Youth Orchestra.
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Happy birthday to @martylyricfm and @MichaelBuble 🥳. #tbt when Michael Bublé sang Happy Birthday to Marty live in concert! 🎶🎂
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Congratulations to the RTÉ lyric fm team, and a huge thanks to all our listeners, old and new, for these wonderful JNLR listenership figures for 2019. Where life sounds better, indeed! 🎉 . #lovelyric. @LyricLorcan @martylyricfm @lizlyricfm @theNiallCarroll @johnkellytweets
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Yesterday, today and tomorrow, we remember our beloved friend and colleague at @rtelyricfm. Thanks for the many great memories. We are heartbroken. Déanamíd comhbhrón le Kathleen, Susie agus Crona. RIP Gay.
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Sure we have to decorate our studios for the occasion! Thank you to all those who sent us birthday cards and greetings! #lyric20
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Heartbreaking news as we learn of the passing of Irish soprano Cara O'Sullivan, May she rest in peace.
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We’re honoured to have been the recipient of Music Station of the Year at this years @IMRORadioAwards #imro17
Award 36 #IMRO17 goes to @RTElyricfm for Music Station of the Year.
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We are delighted to celebrate 25 years of Movies & Musicals!🎉📽️🎶.Aedín looks back at the big 1999 releases & also shares clips from some of her favourite guests over the years @JulieAndrews #AngelaLansbury #JohnBarry @MarkHamill @Lin_Manuel .Join @lyricmoviemusic at 1pm today!
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💜@SJP, the feeling is mutual X .🎧📻📱🌎RTÉ Radio Player App.🇺🇸 New York ↔️ Donegal & Limerick 🇮🇪
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A special thank you from a few of our presenters to the wonderful new and loyal listeners on RTÉ lyric fm💜 #JNLR #WhereLifeSoundsBetter #rtelyricfm25.@LyricLorcan @lizlyricfm @martylyricfm @lyricmoviemusic @HamiltonRTE
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A huge welcome to all our new listeners and a big thank you to everyone who continues to listen to RTÉ lyric fm on a daily basis 💜🎶📻.#jnlr #wherelifesoundsbetter #rtelyricfm.
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Very exciting news as Irish conductor @eimearnoone is first woman to lead orchestra at the #Oscars 2020!. via @rte.
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RTÉ lyric fm is delighted to see yet another increase in the number of people tuning in to the station. We welcome 22,000 new listeners & a huge thank you to our dedicated listeners who continue to enjoy the wide range of programmes on RTÉ lyric fm. #JNLR.
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Tonight at 7pm join @Paullyricfm and friends for 'Cara Remembered' looking back at some of Cara O'Sullivan's performances with the @RTE_NSO & @rte_co including her last concert with @noahsofficial in 2018.@martylyricfm @theNiallCarroll @lizlyricfm @lyricmoviemusic @HamiltonRTE
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Well, they didn’t see that coming… @martylyricfm brings the house down joining the @rte_co for the famous drum solo in Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight!
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How beautiful does Limerick look when it’s bathed in sunlight with clear, blue skies? . #lyricbalcony #limerickedgeembrace @milk_market @stmaryslimerick .@Limerick_ie
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Happy #WorldRadioDay from some of the RTÉ lyric fm presenters 📻🌍.We welcome 22,000 new listeners, according to #JNLR figures, & a big thank you to our dedicated listeners who continue to enjoy the wide range of programmes on RTÉ lyric fm.
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A huge welcome to all our new listeners and a big thank you to the 300,000 weekly listeners who come to the station to hear beautiful music and experience a collective joy #wherelifesoundsbetter. #JNLR #radio
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It was 19 years ago today when lyric fm made it's first broadcast. 🎈🎂🎈🎵🎈🎆.
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🎭 WIN X2 tickets to the opening night of @IrishNatOpera production of Strauss' 'Der Rosenkavalier' in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre @BGETheatre @RTEculture . TO ENTER:.- FOLLOW @RTElyricfm .- ❤️ THIS tweet! . #RTÉlyricfm #WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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A huge thank you to all who joined us @UCHLimerick last night #RTÉlyric25🎉💜.Fantastic concert w/ @rte_co conductor David Brophy & leader Mia Cooper @CelineSoprano #EmmetCahill @Bergique @juliettec49 @ZoeConwayfiddle @EdwinaGuckian & Our Lady Queen of Peace Choir.📸@AndresPoveda
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.@martylyricfm experiences the sights and sounds of the vibrant city of Naples 🇮🇹. Join him live from 7-10am on Friday morning, in association with @TravelDept . #martyinthemorning
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To all the lovers out there, Happy Valentine's Day💜. 📷Marty Whelan for The Rose of Tralee - 2000 (RTÉ Archives). #MartyInTheMorning #RTÉlyricfm #WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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Today, we wish our colleague Eoin Brady the very best as he embarks on a brand new adventure. Eoin has been a producer at lyric since we began - he will be very much missed by us all. Go n-éirí an bóthar leat!
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We’re absolutely thrilled to have received the Outstanding Achievement Award! #IMRO17
This years Outstanding Achievement Award goes to @RTElyricfm for Composing Ireland #imro17.
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Our presenters will still be in studio to make sure you hear the best music so do tune in daily. where life sounds better 🎼🙂.
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Look who’s landed in Lucca @martylyricfm @TravelDept stay tuned for updates and do tune in on Friday morning for a great show. 🌞
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Ease into your day with Marty’s perfect mix of great music, entertainment & chat. It'll leave you floating. @martylyricfm @rte
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We're on our way!. Actor, director and writer Simon Delaney is in the hot seat for Marty.🎙️ .#MartyintheMorning . Tune in.
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The women who keep RTÉ lyric fm going!. #HappyWomensDay2019 #HappyInternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2019
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This October, RTÉ lyric fm celebrates Black History Month. 🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿. Everyday you will hear prominent musical figures honouring these Black musicians on-air. #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #blackexcellence #rtélyricfm #wherelifesoundsbetter .@rte
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Marty’s Hearty Christmas Party…📻🎄🎅✨. @martylyricfm . Tune in everyday this December for festive merriment and giveaways galore.✨🎁🎙. #MartyintheMorning #rtélyricfm #wherelifesoundsbetter
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Struggling to maintain your hair until the hairdresser reopens? So did many of the world's famous composers - here's our guide to composers' hairstyles through history. Which look are you sporting? 😆
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Sinéad. A revelation. 💜. On this morning’s show, Marty Whelan @martylyricfm paid tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor in both music and in the words of listeners, remembering “A woman of substance gone too soon, whose passing has broken so many hearts.”
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Tuning up and ready to go at 3pm for another instalment of Music and the Mind - today we’re talking about Music and the Workplace! With @lizlyricfm @rte_co and guest speakers Dr Hilary Moss and Dr Sarah Sinnamon
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Wishing all our listeners, followers and friends a very Happy New Year 🎼🎉
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Happy Thursday from all the #MartyintheMorning team☔️🤗We are live until 10am. Are you tuned in?.
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It's #JNLR day! We are delighted to welcome our new listeners to RTÉ lyric fm & as always, we thank our devoted listeners who have stayed with us throught the years.💜.#WhereLifeSoundsBetter @lizlyricfm @lyriclorcan @martylyricfm @lyricmoviemusic @johnkellytweets @Paullyricfm
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Our wonderful RTÉ lyric fm presenters in the @irishdailymail on Saturday .Celebrating 25 years of RTÉ lyric fm this Wednesday, 1st May!🎉 #RTÉlyric25.@lizlyricfm @lyricmoviemusic @LyricLorcan @martylyricfm @HamiltonRTE #SimonDelaney
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Ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the RTÉ lyric fm #musicstandchallenge 🎼. Players: An engineer, presenter and producer. Challenge: Unfold and refold a music stand in the fastest time. Who will win? 😲. @VladSmishkewych @Kincorasurf
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Congratulations to our programme teams who have just been announced as finalists in this year’s @NYFestivals 🎉👏👏 .Roll on October for the medals round!
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Join @martylyricfm for a Christmas morning special of music, stories and enough 'dad' jokes to rival any Christmas cracker. With songs from Frank and Ella, music from The Snowman and Clara in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, it's a cool Yule with Marty on this magical morning🎄
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“You want to play music that’s going to make you feel good about the day…” 🎶☀️. Marty in the Morning | 7-10am.@martylyricfm . On RTÉ lyric fm.#wherelifesoundsbetter
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Hear, hear! The unseen and unheard trojan staff at lyric towers - thank you to those who keep it all going!.
Massive shout out to the @RTElyricfm tech heads who are doing unbelievable work keeping the nations ears soothed, Colin, @petercurtin , Don, Niall, . Thank you sooo much, ledgebags. Xx.
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Well there's #StormEllen and then there's our own Ellen Cranitch @pvespertine sitting in for @johnkellytweets on tonight's Mystery Train at 7pm. We know which Ellen we'd prefer to listen to!
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Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it? Calling the Curlew Home is the @LyricFeature this Sunday at 6 pm. @lennyantonelli .
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🏉 @LyricLorcan representing @Munsterrugby this evening!. @martylyricfm isn’t that impressed 👀😂. #RTÉlyric25.#WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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RTÉ lyric fm has the best listeners 💜.
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We're delighted to be nominated for Radio Station of the Year in this year's Celtic Media Festival! .@CelticMediaFest
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RTÉ lyric fm presenter Evelyn Grant pays tribute to her friend Cara O'Sullivan, following the esteemed Cork Soprano's death earlier this week @RTE_Culture @evelynlyric @rte
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Cara O’Sullivan - Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
RIP Cara O'Sullivan -.A brave woman who in her all too short life, shared much joy and love through her glorious singing, vivaciousness and love of life. Ireland has lost a leading lady @rte_co @RTElyricfm
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It's the final countdown to our 20th Birthday concert on 1st May! Hope to see you there! #Lyric20. @RTE_Culture @rte @lyricmoviemusic @lyricconcert @LyricLorcan @CultureFilePod @RTE_NSO @NCH_Music
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Very sad news today as we learn of the passing of Irish dramatic soprano Miriam Murphy. Our condolences to her family and friends. May she rest in peace.
'I am shocked and heartbroken to hear of the death of Miriam Murphy. We have lost a singer with a unique talent, a singular voice and an irreplaceable personality.' @fergussheil, INO Artistic Director. Full statement here
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🏉 @LyricLorcan representing @Munsterrugby this evening!. @martylyricfm isn’t that impressed 👀😂. #RTÉlyric25.#WhereLifeSoundsBetter
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