RTÉ has announced two new appointments within its News and Current Affairs area - Ken O’Shea has been appointed to the post of Editor, Current Affairs, and Television. Charlie Bird has been appointed as RTÉ’s Washington Correspondent.
RTÉ has announced two new appointments within its News and Current Affairs area - Ken O’Shea has been appointed to the post of Editor, Current Affairs, and Television. Charlie Bird has been appointed as RTÉ’s Washington Correspondent.
Ken O’Shea, from Cork City has worked for the Dublin and Sunday Tribune newspapers, the Irish Daily Star, Setanta Media, the Sunday World and various magazines. He joined RTÉ as a Reporter in the Current Affairs area in 1997 and has since held the positions of Producer and Executive Producer, working mainly on the flagship current affairs programme, Prime Time. He has also worked on the Prime Time Investigates series and was Executive Producer on the Prime Time special this summer from Beijing.
RTÉ news Chief News Correspondent Charlie Bird has had a long career with RTÉ, having joined in 1974 as a researcher in Current Affairs. Some of his best-known reports include his interviews with Fr. Niall O’Brien facing the death penalty in the Philippines on a trumped-up charge in 1985, the Mountjoy prison rooftop protests in 1990, reports from the refugee camps on the Iraqi-Turkish border in 1991 and, with RTÉ Economics Editor, George Lee , the revelations of the NIB Bank scandal in 1998.
