Today, or Today with Maura and DáithÃÂ, is an Irish lifestyle show featuring several topical segments including health, cooking, men's & women's fashion, makeovers, and travel as well as dealing with popular issues of the day. Broadcast on RTàOne at 15:30 on weekdays, it is presented by DáithààSé alongside Sinead Kennedy (Monday-Tuesday) and Maura Derrane (Wednesday-Friday).
The series is produced by RTÃÂ in Cork, and is overseen by managing editor Colm Crowley.
Live cookery demonstrations from some of Ireland's top television chefs now forms a daily part of the show with other segments featuring less frequently. Regular experts in each subject appear to discuss the topic at hand. Airing on the RTàOne television channel in Ireland, "Today" debuted in November 2012, and replaced previous RTàday-time lifestyle shows The Daily Show (host by Derrane) and Four Live (hosted by àSé and Claire Byrne).
Today was initially hosted each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by RTàpresenters Maura Derrane and DáithààSé being broadcast from RTàStudios in Cork. After the end of the first season RTàannounced that Bláthnaid NàChofaigh and Norah Casey's section of the show was being axed. "Today" returned for a second season in September 2013 hosted solely by Derrane and àSé from Monday â Friday from RTàCork Studios. In September 2020, it was announced that Sinead Kennedy had joined the show to co-host with Daithi on Monday and Tuesdays.
The show is broadcasts live Monday to Thursday, with Friday's edition pre-recorded on Thursday. The series broadcast from the end of September until the end of May each year.
In 2026 the series celebrated 2000 episodes . By 2021 it became RTÃÂ's longest running daytime TV show.
Bernice Harrison, reviewer in The Irish Times, wondered in advance if it "might be a livelier alternative" to the "afternoon schedules [that] are clogged with antiques and property programmes". The eighth season of the show was extended by two weeks due to a rise in viewers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.