Shaunagh Connaire is an

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-nominated Irish broadcast journalist, who has worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and CNBC amongst others.

Early life

Connaire was raised in

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and attended Meán Scoil Mhuire, an all-girls school in the town. In May 2018, she cancelled an invitation she had received to speak to the schools graduating class because the school declined to show a five-minute

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she had put together for the occasion. She graduated from UCD in 2006 and received an MA in journalism from

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in London in 2008.

Professional life

She began her professional life working as a real accountant with

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in Dublin. After graduation from Goldsmiths, Connaire went to work for the BBC as a researcher and producer, working on BBC HARDtalk and

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. This was followed by production and reporting roles at

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and

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, before she moved to

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, where we worked on over 30

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episodes as the associate producer. In her first film on screen for Unreported World, she reported from

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on the

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epidemic.

Awards

In 2009, Connaire was shortlisted as 'Student Broadcast Journalist of the Year' by the Guardian and Sky News, just one year after leaving her career as an accountant with KPMG. Connaire received the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Video for her contributions to the

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documentary "Opioids, Inc.".

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Connaire, Shaunagh 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people Living people Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London Alumni of University College Dublin Irish television journalists Irish women journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Gerald Loeb Award winners for Audio and Video