''Daybreak Northern Ireland'' (previously ''GMTV Northern Ireland'') is the regional news strand for

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provided for the ITV breakfast station

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. Unlike the ITV plc-owned regions, UTV – the

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contractor for Northern Ireland – did not provide regional news broadcasts during '' Daybreak'' (previously ''

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''). This was due to a dispute between UTV and GMTV which dates back to 1994 when UTV opted out of the national breakfast contractor in breach of their broadcasting licence to provide live coverage of the breaking news of the Combined Loyalist ceasefire. ''GMTV Northern Ireland'' was rebranded as ''Daybreak Northern Ireland'' in September 2010, when ''GMTV'' was replaced by new breakfast programme, ''Daybreak''. Regional bulletins aired three times each weekday, and included a look at the days main headlines, a travel news update, and a weather forecast.

Service

In January 1995, GMTV contracted the service out to

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, who then provided the GMTV national news service. The service was produced by

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from March 2000. Macmillan Media, a company founded by former ITN and

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correspondent Michael Macmillan, won the contract to provide news bulletins in 2005. Macmillan Media took over from STV as the regional breakfast news provider in the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland regions in 2007. The ''Daybreak Northern Ireland'' service by Macmillan Media ended on Friday 21 December 2012, with UTV resuming production of the breakfast news opt-outs from January 2013 onwards.

The team

*Sonia Butterworth (Now with U105) *Richard Cull *Lynda Fulford *Lindsey Armstrong (now freelancing with UTV after working at BBC Northern Ireland) *Vicki Hawthorne (now freelance, appears on

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) *Emma Johnston *Aideen Kennedy (now with UTV) *Barbara McCann (now with

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) * Siobhan McGarry * Maura O'Brien *Kirsteen O'Sullivan (Now with TV3) *Charlie Oundo *Paul Reilly (now with UTV) *Nicola Thompson (now with

) * Jane Veitch *Patricia Wilkinson (now with BBC Northern Ireland) *Adrian Horsman (now with Christian Aid Ireland)

References

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