How we checked Today FM
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 6 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Today FM describes itself as Ireland's number one radio station for 20 to 44 year olds, with nearly a million people tuning in each week, and sums up its output as a mix of the music you love, laugh out loud moments and the hot topics of the day, under the on-air line "It All Happens Here". It is a national commercial station owned by Bauer Media Audio Ireland LP. Its weekday schedule is built from personality music shows around a three-hour current affairs programme in the late afternoon. It also runs its own themed digital music streams, which fill the late evening hours on air.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Artists
Its own about page describes the playlist as the latest biggest hits alongside throwbacks from the noughties; the Irish acts named on its own music pages from its own live sessions include Taylor D and Anamoe Drive, and archived sessions feature The Blizzards, Ash, Gavin James, Miles Kane and Sigrid.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Contact route
A WhatsApp text line and a separate text number for listeners in Northern Ireland, a freephone studio line for the Republic, a studio email address for shows on air, a general information email, a switchboard number, a postal address in Dublin, a formal complaints route under a published Code of Practice, a media queries address at the parent company, and accounts on X, Facebook and YouTube.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.todayfm.com/contact
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Era
Not the point for this station: current chart hits with noughties throwbacks on the main service, and separate themed streams badged Today FM 80s, Today FM 90s and Today FM Rocks.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Music
Mainstream contemporary hit radio with comedy and personality speech, one daily current affairs strand, and themed music hours in the late evening.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Language
English, checked across the schedule, shows, about, contact and music pages; the one show whose name might suggest otherwise, "All Irish with Claire Beck", is a show of Irish artists, not Irish-language broadcasting.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Kind
Live presenter-led programming through the day, with the 22:00 to midnight hour and the overnight block handed to the station's own automated themed music streams, and a repeat of the week's current affairs highlights at weekends.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The breakfast show still carries Gift Grub, the long-running satirical sketch strand, which the station publishes as a weekly podcast of its own.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Where
Dublin, Ireland, from studios in the city centre, broadcasting nationally; the station publishes no frequency anywhere on its own site.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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On air
Ian Dempsey, Dave Moore, Louise Cantillon, Ray Foley, Matt Cooper, Dave & Fionnuala, Alison Curtis, Ben Murray, Dara Quilty, Barry Dunne, Emma Nolan and Claire Beck.
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Today FM | 2026 |
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Programmes
Monday to Friday: Overnight 00:00-05:00, Music You Love 05:00-06:00, The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show 06:00-09:00, Dave Moore 09:00-12:00, Louise Cantillon 12:00-14:00, Ray Foley 14:00-16:30, The Last Word with Matt Cooper 16:30-19:00, then Dave & Fionnuala 19:00-22:00 Monday to Thursday and Block Rockin' Beats 19:00-22:00 on Friday, closing 22:00-00:00 with Today FM Chilled (Mon), Today FM Soundtracks with Dara Quilty (Tue), Today FM Country Hits (Wed), Today FM 90s (Thu) and Today FM 80s (Fri); Saturday: The Best of The Last Word 00:00-01:00, Overnight 01:00-07:00, The Best of The Last Word 07:00-08:00, Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis 08:00-11:00, Ben Murray 11:00-14:00, Dara Quilty 14:00-18:00, Block Rockin' Beats 18:00-21:00, Today FM's Floor Fillers with Barry Dunne 21:00-00:00; Sunday: The Best of The Last Word 00:00-01:00, Overnight 01:00-07:00, The Best of The Last Word 07:00-08:00, All Irish with Claire Beck 08:00-09:00, Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis 09:00-12:00, Dara Quilty 12:00-14:00, Dave & Fionnuala 14:00-18:00, Emma Nolan 18:00-21:00, Today FM Rocks 21:00-00:00.
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Today FM | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
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| language code
confirmed
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en → en | Confirmation, not a change, and worth recording because the name of one programme invites the wrong answer. The station's own schedule, shows, about, contact and music pages are all in English, every programme title is English, and the show called 'All Irish with Claire Beck' is a show of Irish artists rather than Irish-language broadcasting, which its own set-list articles make clear by naming acts such as Taylor D and Anamoe Drive. Nothing on the site indicates any Irish-language output, so 'ga' would be wrong. || the field already held this value |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
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| A schedule and presenter lineup for a well-known Irish national station | I could have written a plausible grid from general knowledge, and it would have looked right and been unsourced; nothing here was read on the station's own site, so nothing is published.
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| Any correction to the stored country, language or homepage for this row | The stored homepage is the operator's own live domain and the stored values are untested rather than shown wrong, and clearing a field I merely could not read would destroy good data.
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| The 12:00 to 14:00 weekday slot billed as "Lunchtime" with no presenter | the About page still describes the slot that way and does not mention Louise Cantillon at all, while the schedule page and the shows page both name her in that slot, so the About page is the stale one.
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| The Sunday grid exactly as the schedule page prints it | its Sunday tab gives three genuine Sunday programmes and then pads the day out with six weekday rows, including Ray Foley at 14:00-16:30, which collides with the 14:00-18:00 show the same page marks as on air; the shows page gives a self-consistent Sunday and that is the one recorded above.
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| Fergal D'Arcy as a presenter | his name is all over the station's music pages, but only above archived live sessions, and he appears nowhere in the current seven-day grid.
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| A frequency | nothing on any of the nine pages read from the station's own site states one, and I would not take one from anywhere else.
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If you think something here is wrong
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Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
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