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Keelin Shanley RTÉ Press Office

RTÉ reveals new presenter for morning news programme

Keelin Shanley will front a new morning news programme on RTÉ One television and RTÉ News Now in the new year.

RTÉ HAS ANNOUNCED that Keelin Shanley will front a new two-hour morning news programme that will broadcast on its RTÉ One and RTÉ News Now television channels in the new year.

Shanley, who has worked as a journalist and presenter for the State broadcaster for over 15 years, will front the as yet unnamed news programme that will broadcast on weekday mornings between 9am and 111am.

RTÉ has also announced that Anthony Murnane, the station’s deputy foreign news editor, will be the editor of the programme which will begin broadcasting from late January.

Shanley has won three IFTAs, a National Media, a Law Society and a Radharc award for her work.

She has worked with Prime Time and presents The Consumer Show having previously been a news reporter for Radio France International and CNN World Report.

Murnane has worked across the RTÉ News division since joining the organisation as a journalist over 20 years ago. This includes covering the UK elections in 2010, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York and the state visit to New Zealand by President McAleese in 2007.

He has presented RTÉ TV’s main news bulletins and was on air for the live coverage of the 9/11 attacks on the United States 11 years ago.

RTÉ has so far released few details about its new morning programme.

It was announced as part of a wider shake-up of news and current affairs coverage announced by the recently appointed managing director of news and current affairs, Kevin Bakhurst, in October.

More: George Lee joins Prime Time as part of RTÉ News shake-up

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    Dec 20th 2021, 7:41 AM

    Good choice given the alternative. Well do Chile!!!

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    Dec 20th 2021, 9:17 AM

    The acceptance of the result by the defeated right-wing candidate gives little scope for a US-style coup.

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    Dec 20th 2021, 8:48 AM

    His opponent accepted defeat and communicated that acceptance publicly.

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    Dec 20th 2021, 9:29 AM

    Brilliant news in a western world surrendering it’s freedoms to folksy populist lia.r fascists-in-waiting like Bojo’s tories, trump, eastern Europe, and Russia, Brazil, India, Phillipines etc. These ‘life-thieves’ will come in suits, and disarming charm…not jackboots

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    Dec 20th 2021, 10:22 AM

    @SheepleDog: i don’t think you know what fascism is…

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    Dec 20th 2021, 2:58 PM

    @Pól Ó’hAodha: would it help if I used the word ‘authoritarian’ ? Please no whataboutery…Merry Christmas

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    Dec 20th 2021, 10:17 AM

    Considering Kast is the son of a notorious N#zi , a great result for the Chilean’s and all of South America

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    Dec 20th 2021, 1:19 PM

    @Bennasi84: And has defended Pinochet rule in the past, One thing a lot of Chileans will never forget is what the likes of Pinochet and the Catholic Church did to them.

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    Dec 20th 2021, 12:16 PM

    Now watch what happens when people start to flee

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    Dec 20th 2021, 1:00 PM

    @Ciaran Tuomey: Flee from what exactly? Or are you talking about the rich fleeing?

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    Dec 20th 2021, 1:12 PM

    @Gary Kearney: hope you were not smiling when Higgins was praising Honduras.

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    Dec 20th 2021, 1:10 PM

    Don’t know the man so have nothing to add. But your a biased journalists have you no shame.

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