''Ireland Live'' was an Irish television news and current affairs service produced by
UTV Ireland
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. ''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.
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
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,
Limerick
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and
Galway
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. UTV's Northern Ireland newsrooms in
Belfast
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,
Derry
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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 was Marcus Lehnen, with Margaret Ward and Cece Leadon as executive producers.
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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
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's ''
The 5.30''. In parallel with this change, UTV Ireland also began to broadcast hourly ''Ireland Live'' news updates throughout the day.
''Ireland Live'' also produced local news updates aired during UTV Ireland's simulcasts of ''
Good Morning Britain''.
Ratings
On air team
Presenters
*
Alison Comyn (main anchor at 17:30 & 22:00 programmes)
*
Claire Brock (main anchor at 22:00)
*
Jenny Buckley
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(Weather presenter)
Jenny Buckley unveiled as weather presenter
, Utv.ie, 21 December 2014
Reporters and correspondents
*Claire Brock
*Eric Clarke
*Paul Colgan (Economics Editor)
*Darragh Collins
*Marie Crowe (Sport)
*Sean Dunne
*Stephanie Grogan
*Claudia Headon
*Luke Holohan (Online Journalist)
*Aidan Kelly
*Zara King
*Sharon Lynch (Dublin Videojournalist)
*Sarah O'Connor
*Sinead O'Donnell
*Marése O'Sullivan (Online Journalist)
*Bernard O'Toole (Sport)
*Denis Mahon (Dublin Videojournalist)
*Anita McSorley
*Christina McSorley (Dublin Videojournalist)
*Kevin Purcell (Reporter)
*Mary Regan (Political Editor)
*Naoimh Reilly (Cork Videojournalist)
Former presenters
*Chris Donoghue (10pm programme)
*Ger Gilroy (Friday sports preview)
After the station shut down many of the reporters moved to either RTÉ news or Virgin Media news.
References
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External links
UTV Ireland: ''Top Stories''
2015 Irish television series debuts
Irish television news shows
UTV (TV channel)