He has held the post of Sky's Political Editor since being asked to establish its politics team for the launch of the channel in 1989.

The official website, however, was launched in June, 2009, two months after the launch of the channel.

After a successful launch of the channel, where award-winning programming was produced, he returned to RTÉ in 2000.

However, in November 2012, A new logo was introduced before the launch of the channel.

This was the first national launch of the channel in HD.

For the launch of the channel, Star is running a campaign across the Star India network.

Neil Barnett has been presenting since the launch of the channel in August 2001.

The launch of the channel took place without any agreement being reached with a cable broadcaster.

This included shows from the launch of the channel in the 1980s, through the 1990s and into the 2000s.

The official launch of the channel was on 28 July 2008 and was initially live between 5pm and 11pm.