A look at how an RTÉ News report gets to our television screens.
Schoolgirl Amy Eilish gets to spend a day with RTÉ News.
Here at RTÉ we have to be ready to respond to the latest news at the moment's notice.
Amy Eilish sits in on the 10.00 am editorial meeting. Chief RTÉ News editor Ray Burke assigns a story about a three pence rise in the the price of petrol to Amy Eilish and reporter Flor MacCarthy. The story needs to be ready for news bulletins at 1.00 pm and 6.00 pm.
There are plenty of members of the public willing to tell RTÉ News what they think of the price hike.
I think it's an absolute disgrace.
A spokesperson for Maxol explains the increase in the price is partly because oil is paid for in dollars and,
The dollar has been strengthening significantly in recent months.
Flor McCarthy tells Amy Eilish a journalist is a little bit like a detective.
You have to find numbers that aren't in the phone book, you have to be a little bit mad, you have to not panic when you are under pressure, and you have to be very good at making jigsaws.
Flor McCarthy is hoping the petrol story will be ready for the One O'Clock news bulletin but there are still a few missing pieces of the jigsaw. She edits the story for the news bulletin which is read by Gareth O'Connor broadcast from studio 3 in RTÉ.
The newscasters get most of the praise but behind the scenes, there are many people who help to bring the news to our screens.
Amy Eilish tries her hand at reading the news and decides she wants to become a journalist when she is older.
This episode of 'Echo Island' was broadcast on 26 March 1999. The presenters are Cristin Ní Chaireallain and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh.
'Echo Island’ was broadcast on RTÉ Network 2 as part of ‘The Den’. It first aired in September 1994 and concluded in June 1999.
