Presented by Alison Comyn Original language(s) English | Country of origin Republic of Ireland | |
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Also known as 'Ireland Live at TenIreland Live News' Executive producer(s) Marcus Lehnen
(Head of News)
Margaret Ward Producer(s) Yvonne Redmond
Siobhán Silke | ||
Ireland Live was an Irish television news and current affairs service produced by UTV Ireland (now be3). This news service ended on January 6, 2017 at 17:55.
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Overview
Ireland Live features national, international and regional news, including extended reports, interviews and sports coverage during its flagship hour-long programme at 10pm on weeknights. UTV Ireland's chief news anchor is Alison Comyn.
The news service is produced and broadcast from UTV Ireland's headquarters at Macken House in Dublin's Docklands, with district reporters and camera crews based at regional newsrooms in Cork, Limerick and Galway. UTV's Northern Ireland newsrooms in Belfast, Derry and the Parliament Buildings in Stormont are also utilised. International news coverage is provided by independent broadcast agency Feature Story News.
UTV Ireland's head of news is Marcus Lehnen with Margaret Ward as executive producer and Mick McCaffrey as Ireland Live's news editor.
Broadcast times
Ireland Live airs two main programmes on UTV Ireland each weeknight - a 30-minute early evening news at 5.30pm (competing with the long-established main bulletin on TV3) and an in-depth hour-long programme at 10pm, including feature reports, interviews and analysis.
Short news updates are broadcast every hour from 9am to 5pm and from 7pm to 9pm on weekdays. Updates also air at 6.07am, 7.07am and 8.07am on weekday mornings, as part of UTV Ireland's simulcasts of ITV's Good Morning Britain. Currently, no news programmes are broadcast at weekends, with the exception of morning weather forecasts.
Ireland Live's early evening news initially aired at 6.30pm on weeknights until May 2015. Until December 2015, the second half of the Friday 10pm programme consisted of an extended sports preview, presented by Ger Gilroy.
Ratings
Ratings have been low with figures showing that just 4,700 people tuned in on Monday 22 June 2015, down from 7,000 at the start of the month.