Una O'Hagan (born 1962) is an Irish author, journalist and former newsreader with

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(RTÉ), Ireland's national radio and television station. She 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. For nine years, from 1996 to 2005, she co-presented the station's flagship news programme ''Six One News'' with

Bryan Dobson Bryan David Dobson (born 10 February 1960) is an Irish journalist, newscaster and presenter with RTÉ in Ireland. He currently presents the RTÉ: News at One. He previously presented '' RTÉ News: Six One,'' '' RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock'', most r ...

. O'Hagan presented her last news bulletin on Sunday 25 February 2018. O'Hagan was born in

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in 1962 and attended Dominican College,

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. She studied journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology, graduating in 1982. The following year, 1983, she joined RTÉ, where she worked as a newsreader on

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. In early 1986, she became a member of RTÉ's news reporting staff. In 1990, in

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, she met and interviewed

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, who had been released from captivity on

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just two weeks earlier. In 1992, she accompanied Ireland's first woman president, Mary Robinson, on a state visit to

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, having already covered her election as

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(Uachtaráin na hÉireann) in 1990. She also reported on the release of Beirut hostage Brian Keenan in 1990, the negotiations in

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for the new

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in 2003, and she co-presented RTÉ's coverage of the events of

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. As a newscaster, she hosted live programmes on the deaths of former

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in 1999 and

Garret FitzGerald Garret Desmond FitzGerald (9 February 192619 May 2011) was an Irish Fine Gael politician, economist and barrister who served twice as Taoiseach, serving from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987. He served as Leader of Fine Gael from 1977 to 1987, and ...

in 2011, the visit of

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to Ireland in 2011, and the

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. She was married to author and former RTÉ broadcaster, the late

Colm Keane Colm Keane (1951 – 22 January 2022) was an Irish author, broadcaster and journalist. Originally from County Cork, he studied economics at Trinity College in Dublin and Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He joined Raidió Teilifís Éire ...

. They lost their only son (and only child) Seán to cancer in 2007. They wrote four books together: the No.1 bestseller ''The Little Flower, St. Thérèse of Lisieux: The Irish Connection'', published in September 2018, and the bestselling book ''Animal Crackers: Irish Pet Stories'', published in June 2016. Their most recent co-written books were ''The Village of Bernadette: Lourdes, Stories, Miracles and Cures - The Irish Connection'', published in September 2019, and ''The Book of St. Brigid'', published in September 2021.

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