2013 in Irish television
overview of television-related events in Ireland during the year of 2013
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2013.
Events
January
6 January – It is reported that Seán Gallagher, a former candidate in the 2011 Irish presidential election is launching legal proceedings against RTÉ over an incident in its Frontline Presidential Debate in which a tweet was wrongly attributed to the official Twitter account of the Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness.
7 January – Debut of TV3's first self-produced drama, Deception, set on a post-Celtic Tiger housing estate in Galway.
30 January – Former Channel 5 Director of Programmes Jeff Ford has been hired by TV3 to become their new Director of Content, a position he will take up in February.
31 January – Figures published by TAM Ireland/Nielsen indicate viewers in Ireland watched an average of 3.35 hours of television per day (25 hours a week) in 2012.
February
1 February – Pat Kenny, most recently presenter of The Frontline, returns to host an edition of The Late Late Show after the death earlier in the week of regular host Ryan Tubridy's father.
5 February – Launch of Irish Horse TV, Ireland's first TV channel dedicated to horse racing and other equine sports.
7 February – The Irish Film and Television Network website reports that pre-production has begun on An Bronntanas, a five-part Irish language thriller set in Conamara that will air on TG4 in 2014.
25 February – Telecommunications giant BT, which bought the rights to some Premier League matches in 2012 expands its investment in sports broadcasting with the purchase of ESPN's channels in Britain and Ireland.
March
4 March – Online retailer Viking Direct says it cannot fulfil orders placed for a 51-inch 3D television that was incorrectly priced at €6.49 instead of €649.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2013 in Irish television” is overview of television-related events in Ireland during the year of 2013. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Irish, television and overview, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “overview of television-related events in Ireland during the year of 2013” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4630117. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2011, 2012 and 2014.
Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.
- Identifying works and editions
- Tracing reception history
- Finding collection records
The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “2013 in Irish television”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow 2013 in Irish television primary sources, 2013 in Irish television archive and Irish research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “2013 in Irish television”?
- Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
- Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “2013 in Irish television” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.