Ray Kennedy is an

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news presenter and award winning journalist who currently works for

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(RTÉ), Ireland’s national television and radio station as its weekend anchor for the main television news programmes '' Six One News'', '' Nine O'Clock News'' and '' One O'Clock News''. He is former Ireland correspondent for

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. He was also one of the

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's two anchors for its weeknightly programmes.

Career

Before joining Sky News, Kennedy worked as a reporter and news anchor for Irish channels RTÉ and

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. His career began in 1989, working as a reporter with the ''

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'' and ''

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'' newspaper groups before radio and television presenting. He has held the posts of Political Correspondent with Independent Network News (INN). Weekend Anchor TV3, and Ireland Correspondent Sky News International. He is currently the Weekend Anchor at RTÉ News. In 2016 he won the Justice Media Award television journalist category for the coverage of the Gorse Hill repossession case. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Awards for reporting on poverty in Brazil ahead of the Rio Olympics. In 2006 he was nominated one of Ireland's favourite news presenters at the

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Work

Overseas assignments have included the funeral of

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in 1997 and the war and refugee crisis in

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1999. He covered the 2004/05

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for Sky News live from Thailand, and was also dispatched to Rome by Sky for the death of

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and election of

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. In 2004 Ray Kennedy covered the

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live from

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He has spent time working from Sky News centre in London. He also broadcast from the

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studios in Washington DC with Brit Hume and John Gibson. He provided three hours of live coverage on Sky News for the 1916 Easter Rising - 90th anniversary military parade in Dublin. He broadcast live commentary on Sky News international for the state funeral of former

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. He left Sky News in 2008 returning to

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. On 19 September 2022, Kennedy was the presenter of RTÉ's coverage of the

funeral of Queen Elizabeth II On 8 September 2022, at 15:10 BST, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and the longest-reigning British monarch, died of old age at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, at the age of 96. The Queen's death wa ...

from London, along with

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