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You can watch selected programmes live from RTÉ One, RTÉ 2 and RTÉ News Now plus catch up on a wide selection of programmes broadcast on RTÉ Television for up to 21 days after transmission. Treaty Live airs at 7pm on Friday, January 7 on RTÉ One.Watch the best of programmes broadcast on RTÉ Television with the RTÉ Player App. "It’s always a challenge but we have a duty as journalists in all media to try and let people know what’s going on and what’s happening and what the implications are for them and so there isn't really much option about it.” " is probably the biggest single story we have covered in the last decade, certainly since the financial crash, and unfortunately it is still relevant so we have got to cover it and we have got to explain to people what’s going on and all the rest of it so it is a constant finding new ways of covering it. "You might not be interested in war but the war is interested in you,” he said. The broadcaster recently released a book aimed at children called The Great Irish Politics Book.Īsked if he believes children and young people are more engaged with politics due to the pandemic, Mr McCullagh said: “They possibly are, I think a lot of young people have been politicised to an extent because of climate change and the whole thing is that they get it and the political system doesn’t seem to get it with the same urgency, but, certainly Covid means that political decisions have a very big impact on their lives, for particularly things like school closures.”Īs a presenter on RTÉ’s Six One News, Mr McCullagh said it can be tiring constantly covering Covid-19, but the public deserves to be informed. “I found those women interesting because for a long time there weren’t other women following on behind them into the Dáil.”
"And all six of them very interestingly voted against the treaty and they were very strong in their opposition to it and they were criticised at the time. "There were six women TDs in that Dáil and that number wouldn't be reached again for a long time after,” he said.
Mr McCullagh said it’s the conversation about the six women TD’s in the Dáil at the time which fascinates him most about the historic event.
"People know in broad terms what happened but you can tune in without a massive amount of knowledge and I think it’ll guide you through what happens and why it’s important and equally if you tune in and you do know a lot about it I think you will find it quite engaging because of the way they’ve scripted it,” he said. "So the idea is to try and get the viewer back into the time to how somebody following the news at the time would have felt.” "So, what was facing them was they didn’t know which way the vote was going to go, it was a very close vote considering the state of public opinion at the time, it’s quite dramatic, it’s really bitter and nobody knows what a yes vote is going to mean or what a no vote is going to mean. “With history, you know what the end result is so that kind of takes away from the sense of what it was like being there at the time, so the idea of this is with a little bit of imagination to try and get ourselves back in the time,” Mr McCullagh told the Irish Independent. It will also include a historical mock drama-documentary and detailed explainers featuring augmented reality. The show will consist of a studio chat with experts, historians and political analysts with simulated live satellite links to roving reports.