Eileen Dunne Biography – Eileen Dunne Wiki
Eileen Dunne is an Irish journalist, newsreader and presenter with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland’s national radio and television station, where she has presented the main television news programmes Six One News, Nine O’Clock News and One O’Clock News including all other news bulletins on both radio and television. She is currently the co-anchor alongside Sharon Ní Bheoláin of RTÉ’s flagship Nine O’Clock News and hosts afternoon bulletins for RTÉ Radio 1. She has worked at RTE for 40 years and announced that she will retire in April 2023.
She became part of RTÉ in 1980 as a part-time radio announcer. She continued her teaching duties while working part-time as a radio continuity announcer on RTÉ Radio 1. She started hosting television news bulletins in 1984. In addition to her news work, she also presented the religious affairs programme The God Slot for RTÉ Radio 1 on Friday nights, having previously presented Eileen Dunne’s Classic Melodies for RTÉ lyric FM until 2010. She was the International President of the Association of European Journalists (2010–2014).
Dunne was the spokesperson giving the results of the Irish jury (and televote in 1998) in the Eurovision Song Contest between 1989 and 1998. The journalist regularly features on RTÉ coverage of major state occasions. In 2016, she was co-anchor with Bryan Dobson for the official state commemoration of the centenary of 1916 Rising. She provided the RTÉ television commentary on the state funerals of Garret FitzGerald (2011) and Albert Reynolds (2014) and the state commemoration of the Battle of the Somme (2016). She also hosted the coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to Knock Shrine in 2018.
She presented news programmes from the UK on the State Visit of President Higgins there in 2014, from Dublin Castle and Croke Park during Queen Elizabeth’s state visit to Ireland in 2011 and from Ballybunion during the then U.S. President Bill Clinton’s visit to Ireland in 1998. She also presented from Rome on the inauguration of Pope Benedict in 2005 and his resignation in 2013 and from Blacksod Bay, Mayo on the day of the R116 Air Crash in 2017. Other major live news specials she presented include the 2000 Concorde crash on 25 July of that year, the result of the 2005 papal conclave on 19 April of that year, the IRA announcement that it was ending its armed campaign in Northern Ireland on July 28, 2005, the Green Party pulling out of government on January 23, 2011, and the arrival of the former U.S. President Trump in Ireland on June 5, 2019.
She attended secondary school at Manor House School, Raheny. She studied Arts at University College Dublin.
Eileen Dunne Age
She was born on April 28, 1958, in Dublin, Ireland.
Eileen Dunne Husband
She is married to her husband, Irish actor, Macdara Ó Fátharta. They have been married since 1993; he plays the part of the villain Tadhg in the Irish language TG4 drama, Ros na Rún. They have one child.
Her left eye is practically blind. She has peripheral vision in it. When she closes her right eye she could not tell who one is but would recognize that someone is sitting opposite her.
Eileen Dunne Son
With her husband, they have one son, Cormac.
Eileen Dunne Family
She is the daughter of Mick Dunne, and her mother Lilly Fox. Dunne was born in Dublin. Her father was the RTÉ journalist, presenter and commentator, Mick Dunne, a native of Clonaslee, County Laois.
