Since 2009, the programme on television no longer includes Catholic imagery and the Angelus prayer itself is never broadcast.
[citation needed] The bells were recorded at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral,[3] although initially broadcast live.
The Secretary of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, Leon Ó Broin, and the Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, had discussed the original idea in the late 1940s.
[citation needed] Televised programming began at Telefís Éireann's launch.
[4] More recently, it showed "a number of people of varying gender and ages pause to pray at the sound of the bell".