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And as far as I can detect that isn't even the Four Courts. It looks to me like the main hall in Dublin's City Hall. They probably couldn't film inside the main hall of the Four Courts for promotional purposes.

It couldnt be the Four Courts
While passing on the Luas the other day, there is a sign at one of the enterences saying video and photos are not allowed beyond that point
So I hightly doubt it

Those kind of rules are generally for public visitors. If a TV crew wants to film somewhere, with the right approach they can generally get to do it.

Either that or something like inside wasn't as good as the promo people would have liked it to be to do the shots they wanted properly.

The news revamp is probably going on air from 4th September as the 6:01 goes to 1 hour long from then.

Just to clarify about the News promo, it is all CG diarmy, as it says on the site link too. Hence Anne and Bryan were simply shot in an entirely green environment, with their hands probably resting on a green box. The computer composed studio set is just keyed in around them: a very accurate one at that.

The camera and studio floor appears to be an overlaid image from another studio - that looks like a standard pedestal camera rather than one of Studio 3:

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The desk is equally CGed of course (in any event the surface is way thicker than in real life), though it's not surprising there's no shelving or anything. It needs to be as spacious and flexible as possible to cater for multiple presenters and different setups. Indeed these roll-on, roll-off units were developed it seems to specifically cater for this need:

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They often hold water cups to keep them out of shot (remember when Eileen had her choking fit she had to lean down? ), and probably the odd mic socket block too. They appear to be used on both sides for Six One, with the right-hand one rolled off set for Nine. The cumbersome design of the desk has its problems though, as the lack of support under the newsreaders' end results in rather embarrassing audible creaks - especially with Anne and Eileen who lean on it more than others.

Regarding the set, the plastic panelling does indeed pop out - for The Week in Politics. As mentioned before, this is how the current set design evolved: the chunky solid frame permits panels to be shifted about at ease for different schemes, as clunky as it looks for TWIP. It's odd that they went for solid panels and not translucent ones for this programme. This is also presumably what the two vertical silver strips are for behind the wooden frame in the middle - they allow manageable-sized panels to be shifted about rather than a giant one across the entire back wall. In any event, a giant panel would probably buckle in the middle, so they offer structural support too.

I always wondered why those boxes kept appearing and disappearing from bulletin to bulletin! Was watching the Nine and it was another well-run bulletin tonight. No glitches at all this evening. Eileen was great tonight and she was framed particularly well throughout. All VTs were spot on but there was no live link though - I suppose it wasn't really necessary as there didn't seem to be a big enough story for it. Why can't they do this the whole time? That temporary set still looks great - far better than the original ever was (with the exception of the missing plama of course). But why is there so much inconsistency in dissloves into and out of reports? There was only about 3 dissolves used tonight - they should either use them everywhere or not use them at all (but obviously I'd prefer the former). And another reporter has drifted across from news2day. She's not bad but... I will say though that she is an awful lot better than the other two who have been doing things for a while now. And the other night during the commentary on the snooker on TG4, I was quite surprised to see Ruth McAvinia chattering away as Gaeilge! She's practically fluent!

The 6.1 was great. I really like Eileen. The VT were nice and smooth.

yes relaunch will happen on Monday august 28th

studio has wood and lots of clever glass - rounded desk too

Is there any source for this news?

Also, Clever glass? I thought we were getting a BBC style newswall. Intresting there going for the clever glass ala Five News

hmm....I'm not gonna make a judgement until I know who gave you this source. But lots of wood....

I never said lots of wood - I said lots of clever class!

There is wood panelling around the studio.

On the BBC-style newswall - that's not what my source in RTE described - just said glass running around three walls with green behind it!

That's as much as I know - less than 24 hours to go to see it!!!

Yes that is City Hall alright - but the majority of people wouldn't notice - if you were never inside the Four Courts how would you know what it looked like? and in the promo it is quite fast so again most people wouldn't know the difference even if they had seen the inside of the building - most people will end up seeing the 3 Mary Wilsons!