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RTÉ HAS APPOINTED broadcaster and journalist, Ailbhe Conneely to a new role as Social Affairs and Religion Correspondent this month.
The role will involve reporting and analysis of social affairs and religion issues across RTÉ News’ television, radio and digital platforms.
Conneely has worked for the national broadcaster for 17 years, beginning her career in as co-presenter on RTÉ’s children news show news2day.
Conneely is a graduate of NUIG and has worked across RTÉ’s television, radio and online outputs, and spent the past seven years as a political reporter covering issues from within Leinster House and the European Parliament.
Speaking of her appointment, she said: “It is an honour to be appointed Social Affairs and Religion Correspondent for RTÉ.
“It’s a broad brief which covers a wide range of subjects such as housing, immigration, home care, mental health, disability, drug abuse and other under-reported issues. I aim to give a voice to those who struggle to make themselves heard. I also aim to reflect Ireland’s changing society through religious coverage.”
She was assigned to report on the Referendum on the Eighth Amendment for RTÉ News and followed the work of the Oireachtas Eighth Amendment Committee, until the introduction of abortion services in Ireland in 2019.
A year after the Referendum on the Eighth Amendment, she produced and presented a podcast titled Voices of the 8th, featuring some of the key figures from the referendum campaign sharing their views on the Referendum, abortion services in Ireland and the future of that service.
Why is this news ?.. this should be posted on LinkedIn
@Paul Donegan: beat me to it. With all that’s happening in the world this doesnt matter a whole lot
@alphasully: Ps. good luck to her and all the best with the role
@Paul Donegan: if it doesn’t interest you then just scroll on past, you’re not obligated to read every article.
@alphasully: Why that ‘Role’ at all. But it pays well. The question now is; who is she answerable to.!!
wow ….must be a ‘slow news day’ for the national broadcaster to have the PR department bother to do a release like this – I mean I can’t think of any more pressing matters facing the nation at the moment in fairness….the Journal are no better ….the country on the first day of a shutdown and they are running HR announcement for RTE …mind boggles with the media in this country sometimes ..happy weekend everyone ;-)
@Dave Hammond: They get sent a press release with a photo. The article is already written. It’s slightly newsworthy. It costs nothing to publish it. So they do. You don’t have to read it. It’s not the only thing they’ve published today. Space isn’t at a premium. It hasn’t pushed more important news off the front page.
@Dave Hammond: jesus,relax,couldn’t you be hapoy for the young lady and leave it at that,gonna be a long two weeks for you..
@Dave Hammond: here’s a tip, keep scrolling if it “boggles” you so much. My word some people.
Well done ! It’s news because there are so few women on the airways. Now if you could just give Tubridy and Darcy and Duffy the shove and appoint women instead – lots of great women broadcasters out there.
@Woman On the Up: that’s a discriminationary remark imo.
@Woman On the Up: yup, very misandrist comment..
@Woman On the Up: nobody wants to listen to women on the radio
@old man trucker: are you everybody? Woman On the Up would obviously like to hear more women.
@EillieEs: She wants to hear only women.
Well done,congratulations Ailbe.
Social affairs should be separate from religion
@dB O’Neill:
Absolutely. Why the need to report on “religion issues”; why not tooth-fairy issues? Honestly, in the Age of Information, why?
Religion is only used as a licence to discriminate.
Social affairs exist. Your god (which depends on the land you were born on) doesn’t exist.
Even “healing water” had to be removed from church due to the Coronavirus!
@Dean: you obviously fear God. You should.
@dB O’Neill: religion shouldn’t even be a topic
@Dean: sounds like you are an extremist, no different from those you speak about…….
@Forest Hump: it is a topic, get over it
Another woman
Imagine getting a new job as religious affairs correspondent on the day the Catholic Church effectively closes down by cancelling Masses for the next few weeks. As with other businesses, they’ll never get the customers back again afterwards.
@Bramley Hawthorne: oh dear. A bigot rants.
@Bramley Hawthorne: You wish.
Who never heard of her
Is Joe Little gone??
@Eugene Comaskey: I liked holy Joe.
@Eugene Comaskey: Bring back Joe Little, now.
Well done Ailbhe! I remember you in NUIG, well deserved.
@Claire Mc Nally: Is the Criteria for the Job; to have done a course on God,? If so it’s probably the Dominant Religious View, which won’t allow her to Veer away from the party line.
Another woman
Good luck
Wow
What happened to all my comments
What happened to all my comments
@Paddy Dunne: like a number 10 bus. You’re left waiting 40m for one then 4 arrive together.
In other news, someone buys a hat!
Well done to her . Great to see it
Must be a slow news day…..
Wait, no it’s not.
Good old RTE IS that station still going
So who in RTE is she related to?
We need a Referendum to declare Ireland a secular State as the first serious move towards unification.
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