Its content was customised for a younger audience, and presenters and journalists tend to use more informal language on the programme.

From 2 October 2006 the bulletin was presented by Eileen Whelan, following the departure of Anthony Murnane, who was with the programme from the beginning.

It was mainly presented by Eileen Whelan, Aengus Mac Grianna and Una O'Hagan.

In 1997, as part of RTÉ's revamp of Network 2 as "N2", the programme was completely changed and renamed News 2.

The series was replaced by two early evening bulletins called News Feed on 22 September 2014, which ran until January 2017.