Orla O'Donnell (born 1975) is an Irish journalist. She is Legal Affairs

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for

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and presents ''Finné'',

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. She previously was

Galway Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settleme ...

and

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correspondent for

from 1996 to 1999.

Career

From

Dalkey, County Dublin Dalkey ( ; ) is a village in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county southeast of Dublin, Ireland. It was founded as a Viking settlement and became a port in the Middle Ages. According to chronicler John Clyn (c.1286–c.1349), it was one of the port ...

, O'Donnell started her career as a reporter and correspondent for

from July 1996 to June 1999. She joined Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) in June 1999 and has appeared on RTÉ's main

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programmes, in both

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and

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, almost daily for over two decades. She became Dublin Correspondent for RTÉ from June 2003 to July 2006 and since July 2006, O'Donnell is Legal Affairs Correspondent for RTÉ News. Since 5 September 2018, O'Donnell presents

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, ''Finné'', which focuses on Irish news stories that have made

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s over the last 50 years. O'Donnell reported on the

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for RTÉ News when the pandemic reached

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in 2020.

References

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