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Here is what the new 'People's Angelus' will look like

Alongside new professional films members of the public have made a contribution.

RTÉ HAS RELEASED the new films that will be broadcast as part of a revamp of the Angelus.

These one-minute films are being broadcast at 6pm every evening, with the first broadcast having gone out earlier today.

Alongside these the broadcaster has produced ‘The People’s Angelus’, which is made up of submissions from the public.

A request for submissions went out back in May when the State broadcaster said that it was aiming to revamp its “most controversial” religious broadcast.

The new films 

A set of films was commissioned from Kairos Communications after a tendering process.

the angelus - 2 A still from the second episode of 'The People's Angelus' RTÉ RTÉ

The films have a variety of subjects as their themes, including a sand sculptor and a carer.

Locations across Ireland were used, including the Islandbridge Memorial in Dublin, the Holy Well in Tobernalt, Co Sligo and a traditional bookbinder’s workshop in Athlone.

These professionally made films will be broadcast in the 6pm slot from Monday to Thursday.

The People’s Angelus 

Alongside the professionally produced films, RTÉ will use the 6pm slot on Friday to broadcast ‘The People’s Angelus’.

The films submitted for inclusion used a wide range of mediums, from animation to stills photography.

people's angelus A still from the first 'People's Angelus' RTÉ RTÉ

In the first of the new films, an animation (not dissimilar to the video for A-Ha’s 1985 hit ‘Take On Me’) shows a man waking up and going about his day before a circular shape appears on the wall beside him and changes into a mountain.

The films can be viewed on RTÉ’s website here. 

Read: Meerkats, mistresses and Robbie Henshaw’s carb mountain: This RWC angelus parody is perfect

Also: Someone turned the Angelus into an action movie and it’s the tensest thing ever

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    May 20th 2017, 12:16 AM

    It is important that An Garda Siochana are subject to the law as the rest of us are. The rule of law is an important part of any democracy.

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    May 20th 2017, 9:12 AM

    @Tony Daly: we have a truly rotten police force from the top to the poor lad just out of templemore who apparently has to sleep in his car eating pot noodle.

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    May 20th 2017, 11:50 AM

    @Tony Daly:

    Of course you are right. However, and I don’t mean this in any disparaging way, this comment is much like what a politician would say and then leave it hanging in mid air.

    We all know what is needed but if the leader of our country, the minister for justice and all the other political groups do nothing about the corruption which permeates our country, we will just have to put up with it. That is if we as citizens don’t do something ourselves.
    Regards.

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    May 20th 2017, 1:15 PM

    @Tony Daly: large pich of slat required with anything a shinner says… you couldnt trust them to tell the time never mind the truth

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    May 20th 2017, 12:30 AM

    Democracy is crumbling in front of all our eyes!! FF/FG ignore will of Irish people when it came to water and now ignore parliamentary vote on AIB shares. Are we to believe they even care about the crumbling Gardai ?

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    May 20th 2017, 12:27 AM

    I’m exhausted as to how this ministers incompetence is seen as one of those things and tonight she will bed Leo to keep her job

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    May 20th 2017, 12:09 AM

    if true its sound like the gardai were doing some fantastic work, long may it continue

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    May 20th 2017, 7:05 AM

    @booby sandwiches: a good job by what setting up the competition?or some fella because the cop fancies his girlfriend?or someone who didn’t give up his seat in the pub? or beat him in darts? You must be a member of stackers

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    May 20th 2017, 1:16 PM

    @iluvkief/Tá mé dom: your inferiority complex is alarming but very amusing :D

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    May 20th 2017, 6:51 AM

    It all boils down to the fact that a corrupt government needs a corrupt police force, and that a corrupt police force needs a corrupt government, or neither will thrive.
    The government are not interested in Gardai corruption and the Gardai have no interest in investigating the wholesale corruption in the government and those who surround government.

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    May 20th 2017, 7:55 AM

    @Dave Doyle: identify one case evidencing ‘wholesale corruption’ in government of illegal or criminal behaviour and you get a lifetime’s supply of tin foil

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    May 20th 2017, 11:17 AM

    @Dave Doyle: does that apply to northern ireland also, SF in government, corruption is rife, fake research companies anyone??

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    May 20th 2017, 7:49 AM

    What’s wrong with:
    engaged active criminals as informants
    used informants they have control over to entrap and prosecute people

    Is that not the whole point in Gardai infiltrating criminal networks?

    Heartwarming that Sinn Fein are concerned about such things.

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    May 20th 2017, 11:18 AM

    @alphanautica: exactly it sound like the polic are doing a fantastic job if everything that shinner is saying is true. but its a shinner so its most likely all lies

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    May 20th 2017, 4:47 AM

    is Michelle (author) on first name terms with the Sinn Fein deputy referring to him at one stage as Martin while no such courtesy applies to the minister.-just proves i read the article.

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    May 20th 2017, 11:02 AM

    But don’t worry folks, keep voting FG/FF and it will all get sorted. Sure aren’t we in recovery? The fastest growing economy in Europe, lots of jobs for people who want to work and 280,000 empty houses out there to rent. Keep the recovery going and the EU and IMF will look after us.

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    May 20th 2017, 7:48 AM

    Beware the ,”Long finger of the Law”

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    May 20th 2017, 9:40 AM

    The Shinners minding their own again !

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    May 20th 2017, 11:05 AM

    That’s why she is not on the leader ticket. Costly friendship! !

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    May 20th 2017, 1:20 PM

    that shinner should get used to being ignored, it is going to have to deal with it daily for the rest of its life :D

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