RTÉ News and Current Affairs is a major division of Radio Telifís Éireann responsible for news programming on television, radio and online within the Republic of Ireland.

Introduction

RTÉ News and Current Affairs provides the most comprehensive range of national and international news and current affairs programming in Ireland. The station is also a source of definitive commentary on curret affairs. RTÉ News is based at the RTÉ Television Complex in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland. However, the station also operates regional centres across Ireland and the world.

RTÉ News faces stiff competetition from within Ireland and abroad. Within Ireland TV3 is RTÉ's main rival, however, RTÉ News remains more popular. As an English-speaking nation BBC News, ITN and Sky News also pose threats to RTÉ.

In September 2003 RTÉ News was merged with RTÉ Current Affairs to form "RTE News and Current Affairs". RTÉ News continues as the brand on regular TV and radio news programming. Also in September 2003, all RTÉ news reports in English on all networks were rebranded to RTÉ News, ending the separate branding of News 2 and 2FM News.

Television News and Current Affairs

RTÉ News and Current Affairs is responsible for all the news bulletins on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two. This division also provides news updates on RTÉ's teletext service called Aertel .

RTÉ News and Current Affairs television programmes include:

• RTÉ News: One O'Clock
• RTÉ News: Six One
• RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock
• RTÉ News on Two
• Nuacht RTÉ
• Nuacht TG4
• Nationwide
• Prime Time
• Questions and Answers
• The Week in Politics
• Seachtain - The Week
• Oireachtas Report

"Nuacht RTE" is the division of RTÉ News and Current Affairs which produces Nuacht RTÉ, Nuacht TG4, and Cinnlínte Nuachta. The same team supplies news reports on both RTÉ One and TG4, however, while programmes on RTÉ One have a similar look and feel to English language services, programmes on TG4 do not carry RTÉ News branding.

Radio News and Current Affairs

RTÉ News programming is transmitted via RTÉ radio (RTÉ Radio 1, 2FM, RTÉ Lyric FM & RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta)

RTÉ News radio programmes include:

• Morning Ireland
• RTÉ News: One O'Clock (on RTÉ Radio 1)
• Five Seven Live
• Saturday View
• This Week
• Newsbeat (on RTÉ 2FM)

Regular news reports are broadcast on the hour on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2FM, and on the half-hour on RTÉ Lyric FM.

Online News and Current Affairs

RTÉ News content is also available on the internet. Virtually all of RTÉ's radio and television news programming is subsequently made available in the form of RealPlayer audio and video clips which can be streamed, also, live news programming can be received live via streaming media.

List of selected current and former RTÉ News readers and reporters

• Bryan Dobson - Newsreader
• Úna O'Hagan - Newsreader
• Anne Doyle - Newsreader
• Eileen Dunne - Newsreader
• Eileen Whelan - Newsreader
• Aengus Mac Grianna - Newsreader
• Ken Hammond - Newsreader
• John Finnerty - Newsreader
• Sharon Ní Bheoláin - Newsreader
• Anthony Murnane - Newsreader
• Siún Nic Gearailt - Newsreader
• Charlie Bird - Chief News Correspondant
• George Lee - Economics Editor
• Tommie Gorman - Northern Ireland Editor
• Brian O'Connell - London Editor
• Seán Whelan - Europe Editor
• Tony O'Donoghue - Sports Editor
• Joe Little - Religious Affairs Correspondent
• David Davin-Power - Political Correspondent
• David McCullough - Political Correspondent
• Tony Connelly - Europe Correspondent
• Carole Coleman - Washington Correspondent
• Paul Reynolds - Crime Correspondent
• Mary Wilson - Legal Affairs Correspondent
• Fergal Bowers - Health Correspondent
• Jim Fahy - Western Correspondent
• Damien Tiernan - South Eastern Correspondent
• Pascal Sheehy - Southern Correspondent
• Joe O'Brien - Agriculture & Food Correspondent
• Ingrid Miley - Industry & Employment Correspondent
• Colm Murray - Sports Correspondent
• Eamon Horan - Sports Correspondent
• Joe Stack - Sports Correspondent
• Robbie Irwin - Sports Correspondent
• Samantha Libreri - RTÉ Correspondent
• John Kilraine - RTÉ Correspondent
• Paul Cunningham - RTÉ Correspondent
• Will Goodbody - RTÉ Correspondent
• Michael Fisher - RTÉ Correspondent
• Charles Mitchel - Former Newsreader
• Maurice O'Doherty - Former Newsreader
• Eammon Lawlor - Former Newsreader
• Andy O'Mahony - Former Newsreader
• Seán Duignan - Former Newsreader
• Mary Kennedy - Former Newsreader
• Michael Murphy - Former Newsreader

External links

• RTÉ News and Current Affairs website
• RTÉ News website
• RTÉ News Radio programming — audio archive
• RTÉ News TV programming — video archive
• RTÉ Radio website