1995 in Irish television

The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1995.

Events

24 April – Network 2 airs the long running PBS television series for preschoolers Barney & Friends at 2 o'clock. The series was also very popular in Ireland and has often been transmitted on Network 2/RTÉ 2 as years and months go by, making it one of the most popular imported children's programmes on Irish television.
13 May – For the third year running, Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest. This year marks the 40th event, presented by Mary Kennedy from The Point Theatre, Dublin. The BBC had offered to stage this year's Contest as a joint venture with RTÉ in Belfast as RTÉ were concerned they would not be able to afford the cost of hosting a third consecutive Contest. Ultimately an agreement was made that the BBC would host the 1996 event should Ireland win for a fourth time. However, it was won by Norway. The winning song was the mostly instrumental piece, Nocturne, by Secret Garden, although the group's violinist, Fionnuala Sherry, is Irish.
July – RTÉ appoints Mark Little as its first Washington Correspondent.
31 August – BBC 1 Northern Ireland airs the pilot of its satirical comedy series Give My Head Peace. The programme was later commissioned as a series in 1998.
9 September – British animated series Fantomcat begins on Network 2, two days after its UK television debut.
11 September – Ray D'Arcy, Socky and Dustin are back when Den TV returns to Network 2 after summer break. The return also marks the Irish television debut of the acclaimed British children's animated series Budgie the Little Helicopter, based on the books by Sarah Ferguson. The series was also animated and produced in Ireland). Also debuting in Ireland was the US animated action series Biker Mice from Mars, reruns of the US 1960s cult animated comedy series from Hanna-Barbera Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, plus more cartoon fun with Yogi Bear as well as the Irish programmes Pop Goes The Den, Dinin and The Joke Box and the continuing episodes of the animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and The Flintstones and the Canadian Nickelodeon/YTV supernatural-horror drama for children Are You Afraid of the Dark?.
12 September – US science fiction drama The X-Files receives its first ever Irish television debut on Network 2. The US sitcom Friends also premieres on Network 2 on the same day.
15 September – The hit BBC stop motion animated series for children Noddy's Toyland Adventures begins premiering in Ireland on Network 2 as part of Den TV.

Debuts

RTÉ 1

7 April – The Brittas Empire
2 May – The Hanging Gale
19 May – Millionaire
24 June – The Nanny
8 September – Upwardly Mobile
15 September – Blue Heelers
1 October – RoboCop
12 October – Degrees of Error
21 October – Postman Pat and the Tuba
21 October – Love on a Branch Line
28 October – Postman Pat and the Barometer
25 November – The Beatles Anthology
Undated – Nuacht RTÉ
Undated – ''Space Precinct''

1995 in Irish television

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