RTE are currently looking for entrants for a new archaeology programme involving fifth and sixth class students. There's a website to go with the show that gets applicants to play an interactive game where they identify a variety of archaeological objects that belong to a Bronze Age burial (I'm going to pretend I got them all first time..). Its really well done and actually informative! 

I presume this is connected with the archaeology element of the school curriculum which recently saw the launch of a transition year resource pack to go along with the primary school one. You can play the game yourself on the programme's website but I'm afraid you can't enter unless you're in fifth or sixth class and are happy to 'don an archaeologist's hat'. 

There's no indication that I can find of how the programme will work or what format it will follow but I'm a big advocate of this kind of popularisation of archaeology. Getting kids, and by extension their tax-paying parents, interested and involved in archaeology is the best way to justify our largely publicly-funded research.

The production company doesn't appear to have any background in historical/archaeological programming (judging by a brief glance at their website) and a lot of their recent stuff falls into the category of very light entertainment (e.g. 'Celebrity Jigs and Reels') but the website shows promise so I'll withhold judgement for now.

EDIT: More info on how to apply here.