Tributes paid to the RTÉ broadcaster Keelin Shanley who has died following an illness.
The award-winning RTÉ broadcaster Keelin Shanley has died at the age of 51. Keelin Shanley grew up in Dublin and studied biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. After her degree, she moved to Italy, where she switched focus to journalism, joining RTÉ in her 20s.
Over the years Keelin Shanley presented a variety of TV programmes including 'Crimecall', ‘The Consumer Show’ and ‘Morning Edition’. She also worked on RTÉ Radio One shows such as ‘Morning Ireland’ and ‘The Late Debate’.
Keelin cared most about exposing injustice and highlighting social inequality.
She was a reporter for ‘Prime Time, an RTÉ documentary maker, and she won many awards, including three Irish Film and Television Academy awards (IFTAs).
From January 2018 Keelin Shanley and Caitríona Perry co-anchored the Six One News on RTÉ One. For Keelin Shanley, the helming of this flagship program by two female journalists was important for women because,
If you can't see it, you can't be it.
In March 2013 Keelin Shanley appeared on ‘The Late Late Show’ sharing with Ryan Tubridy the story of her breast cancer diagnosis two years previously.
She bore the illness bravely and with her trademark spirit.
Keelin Shanley is survived by her husband Conor Ferguson, children Lucy and Ben, and the rest of her much-loved family.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 8 February 2020. The reporter is Caitríona Perry
