RTÉ News and Current Affairs provides comprehensive, reliable and impartial reporting of national and international news in Irish and English across both television channels. In addition RTÉ News and Current Affairs provides a range of programming which covers the important issues of the day, raises debate on topics of national interest and explores aspects of life in Ireland through its in-depth investigations.
A new series of the extended interviews given by well well-known national and international figures. This season they include former MEP, Pronsias de Rossa; Professor Orla Hardiman; Professor John Monaghan of the St Vincent de Paul Society and former Fianna Fáil Minister, Martin O'Donoghue.
RTÉ News provides the Six One and Nine Television News programmes, plus five News bulletins per day on RTÉ One, and the late evening RTÉ News on Two. It also produces the Nuacht bulletins on RTÉ and TG4 and the children's News service, news2day, which transmits each weekday afternoon during the school year on RTÉ Two.