Ella McSweeney

Ella has been presenting Shanks Mare since it started in 2004, when she returned to RTÉ from working in the BBC.  After graduating from Trinity College where she studied zoology, Ella first worked for RTÉ in 2000, presenting the science series Future Tense and the wildlife series Nature's Web. She made three documentaries for RTÉ, one of which she won the Young Science Journalist of the Year award in 2000. She produced and presented the science series Mind Matters and the marine biology series Into the Deep.