Yvonne Murray is an Irish journalist. She is the current Global Security Reporter based in

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for

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since December 2022. She previously reported for RTÉ News on

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affairs from

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Career

Murray previously worked for the

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(BBC). She also contributed television reports to Channel 4 News, worked on independent documentary productions and written for ''

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''. In 2018, she re-established RTÉ's presence in

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, from where she contributed multimedia reports across

outlets including '' Morning Ireland'', '' Six One News'', '' Nine O'Clock News'', ''

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'' and RTÉ News online. Her reporting for RTÉ examined Ireland's relationship with China, charted the rise of China's economy, the regime's tightening authoritarianism at home as well as its growing influence on the world stage and the deepening superpower rivalry between China and the United States. She reported on-the-ground from

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, on the mass detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, on cross-strait tensions from

and from

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, on the outbreak of the

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. On 31 March 2021, it was revealed that Murray and her family were forced to leave China amid concerns for the safety of her husband,

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who is China Correspondent for

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. She and her family lived in China for ten years and took the decision to relocate to

, after facing legal threats and pressure from Chinese authorities. On 14 December 2022, RTÉ News appointed Murray as its new Global Security Reporter based at the

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. In her role she would provide comprehensive reporting and analysis on global news, and specifically the work of the

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Personal life

Murray was born in

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. She is married to

, and has three children. Two of their three children were born in China and all three speak

proficiently.

References

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