The TV3 News @ 7, presented by main newscasters Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick, was a thirty-minute news programme covering Irish national and international news stories, broadcast at 7:00pm from Monday to Friday.
It provided a comprehensive view of the day's main international and national news stories, was presented by Alan Cantwell and Gráinne Seoige and was in direct competition with RTÉ News: Six One.
This period of direct rivalry with RTÉ only lasted for a year as TV3 decided to break up the hour-long programme.
As a result of this two new programmes - First Edition at 5:30pm and TV3 News @ 7 - were launched.
Both programmes were still fronted by Cantwell and Seoige, while First Edition became Ireland's first early evening news programme.