Ireland Live

Ireland Live was an Irish television news and current affairs service produced by UTV Ireland. Ireland Live featured 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 was Alison Comyn.[1]

Ireland Live
Also known asIreland Live at Ten
Ireland Live News
Presented byAlison Comyn
Country of originRepublic of Ireland
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersMarcus Lehnen
(Head of News)
Margaret Ward
Cece Leadon
ProducersYvonne Redmond
Siobhán Silke
Production locationsDublin, Republic of Ireland
EditorsMick McCaffrey
(News Editor)
Deborah Naylor
(Assistant Editor)
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time60 minutes
(10pm programme)
30 minutes
(5.30pm programme)
Production companyUTV Ireland
Release
Original networkUTV Ireland
Picture format576i (SDTV 16:9)
Original release5 January 2015 (2015-01-05) –
6 January 2017 (2017-01-06)
Chronology
Related showsUTV Live
RTÉ News and Current Affairs
TV3 News
External links
Website

The news service was 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.[2] International news coverage is provided by independent broadcast agency Feature Story News. UTV Ireland's head of news was Marcus Lehnen, with Margaret Ward and Cece Leadon as executive producers.

IFTA 2016 Winner. Best news programme. ‘Brexit Special’. Ireland Live News at 5.30.

Broadcast times

Ireland Live broadcast a half-hour evening newscast and an hour-long programme at 10:00 p.m. Its early-evening news initially aired at 6:30 p.m. on weeknights until May 2015, when it moved to 5:30 p.m., putting it in direct comparison with TV3's The 5.30. In parallel with this change, UTV Ireland also began to broadcast hourly Ireland Live news updates throughout the day.[3][4][5]

Ireland Live also produced local news updates aired during UTV Ireland's simulcasts of Good Morning Britain.[6]

On air team

Presenters

Reporters and correspondents

Former presenters
  • Chris Donoghue (10pm programme)
  • Ger Gilroy (Friday sports preview)

References
  1. Ireland Live News launches tomorrow Archived 2015-03-16 at the Wayback Machine, Utv.ie, 4 January 2015
  2. Alison Comyn announced as news anchor Archived 2015-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, Utv.ie, 17 August 2014
  3. "UTV Ireland evening news moves to 5.30pm with hourly news updates". Utv.ie. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  4. "UTV moves news time to be in competition with TV3". Irishexaminer.com. 2015-05-14. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  5. "UTV Ireland moves tea-time slot while launching hourly news updates". Goss.ie. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  6. UTV Ireland to broadcast GMB with Ireland Live News Archived 2015-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, utv.ie, 30 January 2015
  7. Jenny Buckley unveiled as weather presenter Archived 2015-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, Utv.ie, 21 December 2014
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