RTÉ will provide coverage of the results of Election 2007 via television, radio, internet, Aertel and mobile phones starting from tomorrow morning.
Election 2007 begins on RTÉ One Television at 11am, with comprehensive live coverage of results from count centres across the country and analysis, reaction and comment from experts and guests.
Presented by John Bowman, Bryan Dobson, Mark Little and Miriam O’Callaghan, the programme will draw from a record number of outside broadcast and satellite units for an Irish election.
Election results received and processed count by count in the RTÉ Results Centre will provide results to television, radio, Nuacht RTÉ for TG4, RTÉ.ie, Aertel and SMS text message in order to give national and international audiences the most immediate and comprehensive coverage possible.
Election 2007 runs from 11am until the RTÉ News at 1pm, and from 2.20pm with breaks for news programmes until 2.30am. On Saturday, it returns to RTÉ One at 11am until 3pm with a break for News at 1pm.
All election programming will be subtitled.
From early morning tomorrow, RTÉ Radio 1 will provide non-stop coverage of the count, with the first updates and live reports from around the country.
Radio special to run non-stop
From 10am Today with Pat Kenny will broadcast coverage of the early tallies, and reporters will be talking to tallymen around the country and getting reaction on the ground.
From 12pm Séan O’Rourke and Racheal English will begin the station’s special election programme, Election 2007.
Reporters will provide coverage of all 43 constituencies, with number-crunchers, politicians, journalists and party members joining for all the drama of the winners and the losers. The programme will run around the clock until the counting stops in the early hours of the morning.
On Saturday morning a special edition of Morning Ireland will start at 8am and will reflect on the results so far in Election 2007. The Election 2007 programme with Sean O’Rourke and Rachael English returns at 10am until 1pm.
At 1pm Saturday View, presented by Rodney Rice, and at 1pm on Sunday This Week presented by Gerald Barry and Gavin Jennings will discuss the formation of the 30th Dáil.
Coverage in Irish on TG4, RnaG
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s award winning Lá an Chomhairimh programme, presented by Máirín Ní Ghadhra, will have reporters in every count centre in the country with up to the minute reports all day tomorrow from early morning until the final seat is filled.
On Saturday May Máirín will present a special follow-up Lá an Chomhairimh from 11am until 2pm.
RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ 2fm will also have updates on all of the election action and count results.
Nuacht RTÉ's coverage of the election count on TG4 will see some 15 hours of live output over two days covering all 43 constituencies.
Morning Ireland’s Cathal Mac Coille will be the anchor for Vóta 2007 from 2pm tomorrow and will be joined by a team of reporters based in each of the constituencies and a panel of commentators in studio and around the country.
Nuacht RTÉ will also be providing election count coverage in its regular bulletins on Friday and Saturday on RTÉ One.
Comprehensive coverage on RTÉ.ie
Here on RTÉ.ie, Ireland’s leading media website, comprehensive multimedia coverage of the election is at RTÉ.ie/election for audiences at home and abroad.
The site features round the clock coverage, with tallies, exit polls and full results from all 43 constituencies available on both RTÉ.ie and RTÉ Aertel as soon as they are announced. Election news stories and constituency breakdowns will also be available on PDA devices for those on the move.
The website will also feature exclusive in-depth analysis and discussion from RTÉ’s team of correspondents and journalists from around the country in The Hub, RTÉ.ie's special section for election audio, video and pictures.
All RTÉ television and radio election programmes will be available live via RTÉ.ie/live and subsequently on-demand for users in Ireland and around the world.
The election site also has in-depth coverage of all the crucial election issues and events, with a choice of special features for both seasoned enthusiasts and election novices.
