Ireland Live

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)
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time60 minutes
(10pm programme)
30 minutes
(5.30pm programme)
Production companyUTV Ireland
Original release
NetworkUTV Ireland
Release5 January 2015 (2015-01-05) –
6 January 2017 (2017-01-06)
Related
UTV Live
RTÉ News and Current Affairs
TV3 News
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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]

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.

  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