Teletext.ie is an Irish news service.
It publishes two finite editions a day — 06:00 and 18:00, eight stories each — for readers across Ireland. Every summary is checked and signed by a named editor before it publishes, and then it stops.
Teletext.ie is an Irish news service that summarises the day’s Irish news into two edited editions, at 06:00 and 18:00. AI drafts three facts from the original reporting; a named editor checks every fact against the source and signs it before it publishes. The outlets whose reporting is summarised are named and linked on every story.
Two editions a day — 06:00 and 18:00 — of eight stories each. Every story is three facts, a source and one sentence on why it matters. When you reach the end of an edition, it says so, and there is nothing else to scroll.
Who is it for? People who want to be informed in three minutes rather than entertained for thirty. If you have ever opened a news app to catch up and closed it twenty minutes later knowing no more than when you started, this is built for you.
Teletext.ie is edited by Patrick Spanner, who signs every edition — the initials on each receipt line are his. It is published independently from Ireland and funded by reader membership and advertising. No political party, state body or news outlet holds a stake in it.
It is published online only, for readers across Ireland. There is no public office; everything reaches us by email and is answered within one edition cycle — twelve hours.
The frame is the product. A story is three facts, not eight hundred words of throat-clearing with the news in paragraph six.
Finishable, always. An edition ends. Finishing is the reward, and the whole point — stopping is a feature.
Say who says so. Every borrowed fact links to the outlet that reported it, and every outlet we saw covering the story is counted, whether we linked it or not.
A person signs it. Nothing publishes unchecked. The initials of the editor who checked it, and the time they did, are printed at the foot of every frame.
Three facts, a source, an end. Every summary checked and signed by an editor before it publishes, with the time on it. Every borrowed fact linked back to the outlet that reported it. When we get something wrong we fix it in the open, at /corrections/.
The 06:00 is the whole edition, not a teaser. Three facts a story, then it stops.
That’s everything.