RTÉ News is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Whelan as its new London Correspondent.
Sean has held the role of Washington Correspondent for the last four years, where he reported on the dramatic 2024 US Presidential election, the law cases against Donald Trump, the Uvalde massacre, the Oscars, the tariff crisis, and the Choctaw nation. Prior to this he was London Correspondent for three years, extensively reporting on Brexit, the pandemic and UK politics. He also previously held the post of Economics Correspondent with RTÉ News for almost nine years.
He will be returning to the role responsible for reporting across RTÉ News’ online, video and audio platforms on all aspects of life in London and the wider Great Britain.
Sean joined RTÉ News in 1991 and has worked as a radio reporter on Morning Ireland and a reporter/presenter on This Week and World Report. He joined the foreign desk in TV news in 1994 and reported on the war in Bosnia. Later as Deputy Foreign Editor he reported from the war in Kosovo, the attempted impeachment of Bill Clinton in Washington, the return of Hong Kong to China and the election of new Labour in the UK.
He spent a decade as Europe Editor, based in Brussels, filing stories from every state of the European Union. He was also heavily involved in RTÉ’s coverage of the Lisbon Treaty referendums.
A graduate of UCD (History and Politics), Sean Whelan also has postgraduate diplomas in Journalism from NIHE (now DCU) and in Accounting and Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He started his career in journalism in the mid-eighties as a freelance feature writer with Magill magazine and the Irish Independent, before moving to London, where he worked as a reporter on the weekly business newspaper Marketing. He moved back to Ireland at the start of the nineties, working at The Sunday Tribune and Magill.
Reacting to his appointment Sean said: “I’m looking forward to returning to London at yet another pivotal moment for UK politics. Having been in covid lockdown during most of my previous posting there, I’m also really looking forward to now being able to report on an even wider range of stories from all over Great Britian.”
Sean is commencing his new role with immediate effect.
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