RTÉ's Mid West Correspondent Cathy Halloran is to retire from the national broadcaster.
The Dublin native has worked with RTÉ News for 38 years, with 31 of those years as the station's correspondent in the mid west. She will retire from this role next month.
Ms Halloran began her journalism career in the 1980s with The Farmer Magazine and went on to report for the Connacht Tribune newspaper in Galway.
She joined RTÉ News in October 1987 where she reported for radio and TV news on a wide variety of news stories, including the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Beef Industry at Dublin Castle from 1990.
Ms Halloran was appointed as RTÉ's Mid West Correspondent in 1993.
She covered some of the biggest national stories to emerge across the mid west in the past three decades, including crime, health, politics and stories that impacted local communities.
Speaking about her retirement, she said: "It's been a roller coaster of a career during almost four decades working for RTÉ News, the bulk of them as Mid West Correspondent, and has given me a 'Page One Lead' on the stories making history and impacting the lives of citizens and their families and communities across this very busy part of the country."
Ms Halloran said many of the stories she covered involved tragedy and violence brought on by criminal activity, fatal accidents and ongoing issues around services at University Hospital Limerick.
These are difficult to cover because of the impact they have on people's lives, she said, but added: "There were also the stories of joy and those of ordinary people doing extraordinary things which were part of the daily mix of content from the region."
She also reported on the emergence of the first directly elected mayor and said Limerick "led the way in the biggest change in local government since the foundation of the state".
Ms Halloran paid tribute to her journalist colleagues in what she described as a "very competitive region".
She said her fellow reporters have been "my colleagues and friends and great supporters also of my work".
"But most of all, it's the people and communities of the Mid West who have allowed me into their homes and their hearts to let me tell their stories around the issues that were of concern and mattered to them," she said.
"That has been a great joy and privilege, and I will miss it hugely."
Ms Halloran said she felt the time was right to exit her working life in RTÉ and to "look forward, hopefully, to some healthy and fulfilling years ahead when the pressure of work and the tyranny of time will be replaced by a gentler pace of life".
Today some news of my own I have decided to exit my working life in @rtenews & retire early . A massive thank to so many who have shared their stories Princes Presidents & People—an honour & thanks so much to my talented colleagues especially the team in the regions pic.twitter.com/NXAMO12092
— Cathy Halloran (@HalloranCathy) April 10, 2025
She lives in Limerick city with her partner Nicky Woulfe and her son John Michael.
Her late father Danno Halloran was also news editor in RTÉ from the mid-1960s to the 1980s.
