7 Days (Ireland)
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| Also known as | Seven Days |
| Directed by | Eoghan Harris |
| Presented by | John O'Donoghue, et al. |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
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| Producer(s) | Muiris Mac Conghail |
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| Original network | Radio Telefís Éireann |
| Original release | 26 September 1966 – 1976 |
7 Days (previously Seven Days) was a RTÉ One current affairs programme presented by Brian Farrell, Brian Cleeve and John O'Donoghue and broadcast in Ireland from 1966 until 1976.
Seven Days was created by RTÉ One as a replacement for the existing programme Sixty Six. It was developed at a time when the station was expanding its current affairs programming. New innovations included having TDs and senators from all parties giving their opinions on Dáil proceedings instead of the political correspondents of the daily newspapers. Broadcast live on Monday evenings between 8:45pm and 9:15pm, it quickly became RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme. Seven Days was broadcast for the first time on 26 September 1966.
John O'Donoghue, Brian Cleeve and Brian Farrell were the first presenters of Seven Days. All three had earlier worked on Telefís Éireann's first current affairs programme Broadsheet in the early sixties.
In 1967 the programme was merged with another current affairs programme, Division, and rebranded as 7 Days. As a result of this amalgamation the team of presenters was expanded to include David Thornley, Ted Nealon, Bill O'Herlihy and Paddy Gallagher.
In 1968, it was announced that the current affairs programme, which often tackled subjects of public controversy in a forthright manner, was to be moved to the RTÉ News division. This led to a threatened strike and ultimately to the resignation of several of the programme's presenters.
7 Days was the first home-produced programme to be shown in colour by RTÉ, although colour transmissions of imports predated it.
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