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This evening's weekend Six-One News didn't include the newsreader for the sports news at the start of the bulletin.

There's usually the main newsreader and the sports newsreader doing the headlines for the start of the weekend Six-One bulletin.

Has that omission start to become a recent trend from cutbacks in RTÉ or is just a one off event?

It was a one off. The Six-One news was five minutes shorter than usual with no ad break also. It was shorter to facilitate the 65 minute long “Marty Whelan’s Eurovision Legends” at 6.55pm ahead of the Eurovision starting at 8pm.