Sinéad Crowley (born 1974) is an Irish journalist and

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who formerly worked for

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, Ireland's national radio and television station, where she was Arts and Media Correspondent for

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from 2006 to 2023. She has published four novels, three of which were shortlisted for the

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Career

Crowley began her career as a journalist and film reviewer for the '' Northside People'' and later worked on the radio stations,

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, Clare FM and

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and

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. Since September 2019, she is a lecturer in journalism at

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. Crowley was on

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coverage on the '' One O'Clock News'', '' Six One News'' and the '' Nine O'Clock News'' when the pandemic arrived in Ireland. On 28 July 2023, Crowley announced that she would be leaving RTÉ after 26 years in the national broadcaster.

Personal life

Crowley is a fluent Irish speaker from

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. She attended

and

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and received a

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and

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. She also received a

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. Crowley is married to Andrew Phelan, who works for the ''

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'', and has two sons.

Awards and nominations

Crowley has published three crime novels, ''Can Anybody Help Me?'' (2014), ''Are You Watching Me?'' (2015) and ''One Bad Turn'' (2017) in the novel series ''DS Claire Boyle''. All three novels were shortlisted for the

. In 2022, she published a fourth novel, ''The Belladonna Maze''.

References

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