''RTÉ News on Two'' was a late-night news programme that aired each Monday to Thursday on Irish public television channel

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between 2 November 1978 and 18 September 2014. The transmission time of this programme varied each night, but it generally aired between 22:45 and 23:30. Until 4 January 2013, the programme was broadcast every Monday to Thursday, lasting 22 minutes, reducing to ten minutes after this date. A world weather forecast followed each broadcast. ''RTÉ News on Two'' took a different agenda to other

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programmes. Its content was customised for a younger audience, and presenters and journalists tend to use more informal language on the programme. From 2 October 2006 the bulletin was presented by Eileen Whelan, following the departure of Anthony Murnane, who was with the programme from the beginning. Eamonn Falvey edited the programme from 2 April 2007 until December 2009. Gareth O'Connor was the programme editor until 2010. It was mainly presented by Eileen Whelan, Aengus Mac Grianna and Una O'Hagan. From 5 March 2007 until 18 September 2014, ''RTÉ News on Two'' was streamed live on the internet and archive shows are available to view through the RTÉ website. For the duration of the 2011 general election campaign, ''RTÉ News on Two'' in its regular format was only aired on Thursday night, with a reformatted programme, ''The Eleventh Hour'', airing Monday-Wednesday (with a short ''RTÉ News on Two'' extended summary airing beforehand).

History

The programme began as ''Newsnight'' in 1978 and was usually the last programme of the day during RTÉ 2's first ten years on the air. It was largely an international news service with reports from

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and other American networks. On 3 October 1988, RTÉ 2 relaunched as Network 2, and their news programme was relaunched as ''Network News''. It was a regular

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bulletin but the new name reflected the new name of the channel it was broadcast on. In 1997, as part of RTÉ's revamp of Network 2 as "N2", the programme was completely changed and renamed ''News 2''. ''News 2'' was presented by

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(who had presented '' Nuacht RTÉ'' for a number of years) and Anthony Murnane. Both presenters would present alternating weeks, with another presenter for the sports news. Unlike RTÉ News on RTÉ One, ''News 2'' was presented from a green screen studio, the presenters sat on high stools, the main news presenter would sit on the right with the sports presenter on the left at different desks. In 2003, RTÉ began another rebranding exercise and choose to highlight what channels they own, hence N2 was relaunched as RTÉ N2 (however continuity referred to the channel as RTÉ Network 2). The RTÉ Network 2 news programme was restored to the regular RTÉ News look and branding (as ''RTÉ News on Two''), and now broadcasts from the regular RTÉ News studio, but many of the innovations of ''News 2'' and the younger agenda remain. For example, the presenter usually stands to introduce the first story. The series was replaced by two early evening bulletins called ''News Feed'' on 22 September 2014, which ran until January 2017. For a period of time a live late-night news programme aired on both RTÉ One and RTÉ News Now on Friday nights between September and May after '' The Late Late Show''. There are no morning or late night news bulletins on any RTÉ channel.

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