Gavan Reilly
BComm 2009
Gavan Reilly
Gavan Reilly was one of Twitter’s most influential Irish journalists in 2019, according to the Murray Tweet Index, rel...
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Paul Cunningham
BA English and Greek & Roman Civilisation 1990
Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham was appointed political correspondent at RTÉ in November 2018, after 30 years with the broadcaster in v...
Gail Slater
BCL 1993, LLM 1997
Gail Slater
Dublin native Gail Slater, who worked in the Trump White House, has left the administration to take up a senior position...
Jack Lahart
BA History and Politics 2013
Jack Lahart
In late 2018, Jack Lahart was made deputy community editor at The Economist, which won the 2019 KuppingerCole European I...
Fintan O’Toole
BA English and Philosophy 1978
Fintan O’Toole
In 2018, The Irish Times columnist, Alumni Award winner 2018, Fintan O’Toole won the Broadsheet Columnist of the Year...
Máire Kearney
BA Economics and Politics 1991
Máire Kearney
In November 2018, director and producer Máire Kearney’s documentary, Whistleblower: the Maurice McCabe Story was aire...
Donie O’Sullivan
BA History and Politics 2012
Donie O’Sullivan
A CNN technology and politics reporter, Donie O’Sullivan works with the investigative unit of the network, identifying...
Gavan Reilly
BComm 2009
Gavan Reilly was one of Twitter’s most influential Irish journalists in 2019, according to the Murray Tweet Index, released in April. Political correspondent for Virigin Media News, Reilly hosts a weekly radio show on
Newstalk, where he presides over discussion and debate on politics and current affairs. This year, he also published his non-fiction book, Enda the Road, about the Maurice McCabe scandal and the end of Enda Kenny’s career.
Paul Cunningham
BA English and Greek & Roman Civilisation 1990
Paul Cunningham was appointed political correspondent at RTÉ in November 2018, after 30 years with the broadcaster in various roles. As European correspondent based in Brussels, he covered EU affairs and the Euro crisis. He won an IFTA in 2002 for his documentary Bad Blood and has published two books including Ireland’s Burning: How Climate Change Will Affect You.
Gail Slater
BCL 1993, LLM 1997
Dublin native Gail Slater, who worked in the Trump White House, has left the administration to take up a senior position with Fox Corporation, as head of the broadcaster’s federal policy team. She was one of the honorees at the March American Ireland Funds Gala Dinner in March 2019. Slater, who has a law degree from UCD, was widely credited with crafting and executing the Trump White House strategy on wireless 5G.
Jack Lahart
BA History and Politics 2013
In late 2018, Jack Lahart was made deputy community editor at The Economist, which won the 2019 KuppingerCole European Identity & Cloud Award for Best Identity Platform Project. Lahart works in the publication’s social media team to distribute content across all social media platforms. Prior to this, he worked as content specialist for The Economist and has previously worked in Seanad Éireann as a researcher.
Fintan O’Toole
BA English and Philosophy 1978
In 2018, The Irish Times columnist, Alumni Award winner 2018, Fintan O’Toole won the Broadsheet Columnist of the Year award at the Newsbrand Ireland awards. His book, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain, was published in late 2018 to critical acclaim and he has been shortlisted for the 2019 European Press Prize for his article, “Trial Runs for Fascism are in Full Flow”, the most-viewed article on irishtimes.com to date.
Máire Kearney
BA Economics and Politics 1991
In November 2018, director and producer Máire Kearney’s documentary, Whistleblower: the Maurice McCabe Story was aired. The two-part documentary had an audience of 1.1 million and is one of the most-watched documentaries on the RTÉ Player with over 90,000 views. Kearney said: “It was an absolute privilege to tell their story and we are so happy that so many watched and got to see the courage and integrity of Maurice and Lorraine McCabe.”
Donie O’Sullivan
BA History and Politics 2012
A CNN technology and politics reporter, Donie O’Sullivan works with the investigative unit of the network, identifying online disinformation campaigns. O’Sullivan was on the team that found Russian government-linked social media accounts targeting American voters and in 2018, O’Sullivan’s findings were used by US Congress investigators to examine the extent of Russian meddling with social media prior to the 2016 US presidential election.