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That's not a bad looking radio studio.

Still can't believe they're persevering with that awful TV news channel. 

RTE One at breakfast has been dire for years. Why not put Morning Ireland there? And the pointless duplication of kids programmes on RTE 2 during breakfast and daytime remains a bizarre anomaly.

Ordinarily, not a huge fan of radio shows on TV but when you're as strapped for cash as RTE, it's a decent option.

Isn't it just? This pic is from the first week of use, but it has has a few tweaks as the editions go by and it seems to be at its best now. Hopefully we'll see it move to MI/NAO soon!

Don't start me on that - it's so poor that the national broadcaster doesn't make any effort for breakfast telly, usually using the excuse that radio is so strong anyway. Ireland AM on VMTV isn't perfect, but it does the job. Morning Edition was a good show, but didn't last. RTÉ One really needs to think of a schedule of Morning Ireland (7-9am), a 1 hour filler programme (9-10am), RTÉ Radio 1's Today with Claire Byrne simulcast (10am-12pm), then another hour till the news (I'd argue they should stream the radio news instead...) Instead, it's a repeat of yesterday's Today programme. 

Meanwhile the News Channel serves little purpose...it cuts into Claire Byrne's show for Mass at 10:30am every day, or a when there is one too many sporting fixtures, they shove a match on there.