Ireland AM

Ireland AM
GenreBreakfast television programme
Presented by
Opening themeCapital Life
ComposersPaul Wickens
Stephen Spiro
Country of originIreland
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerCeline Mc Gillycuddy
ProducerSinead Ryan
Production locationsVirgin Media Television HD Studio,
Ballymount, Dublin
Running time180 minutes
(including advertising)
Production companyVirgin Media Television
Original release
NetworkVirgin Media One
Release20 September 1999 (1999-09-20) –
present
Related
Weekend AM (2015–2019)
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Ireland AM is an Irish morning television show on Virgin Media One. It airs live every weekday from 07:00 to 09:55, and weekends from 9:00 to 12:00. The program features news, current affairs, weather updates, showbiz, fashion, beauty, food, health, home and garden. Its current weekday presenters are Alan Hughes, Muireann O'Connell and Tommy Bowe.

The show is currently sponsored by Fairy, Febreze, Lenor, Ariel and Flash while the programme was previously sponsored by P&G, Unilever, Dolmio and Kellogg's.

As of 2021, Ireland AM is the only Irish breakfast programme currently airing.

As part of a new daytime schedule line up, from Monday 7 October 2019 the programme was extended to 11:00 am on weekdays, with the weekend editions now rebranded as Ireland AM too. In March 2020 it reverted to airing till 10:00 am on weekdays. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ireland AM began airing at the later time of 8 am but reverted to its original time of 7 am in September 2020.[1]

  1. ^ Neville, Steve (24 September 2019). "Xpose axed as Virgin Media TV announce schedule shake-up". Irish Examiner.