Prime Time - Mother and Baby Homes, School Patronage
Is who controls your child's school about to change? And we reveal new details of the number of deaths at one Mother and Baby home.
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Prime Time - FAI, Mandatory Vaccinations
17 Apr The entire board of the FAI says they'll step down while Sports Minister Shane Ross calls for an EGM. And Eithne O'Brien looks at calls for mandatory vaccinations in school
Prime Time - Sport Ireland/FAI, Brexit, HAP
10 Apr Sport Ireland give the FAI a red card and suspend funding. Theresa May looks set to shift the Brexit deadline again. Is using the private rental sector the best way to fight homelessness?
Prime Time - Brexit, Climate Action, E-Scooters
05 Apr Has the risk of a hard Brexit receded? Could saving the planet be bad for your health? And while E-Scooters could ease the morning commute are they illegal?
MEET THE PRIME TIME TEAM
Donogh Diamond - Editor
Donogh Diamond was born in Co. Clare, and studied English and History in UCD, before beginning freelance journalism for the Evening Herald.
Miriam O'Callaghan - Presenter
Broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan was born and raised in Dublin. She qualified as a solicitor before beginning her broadcasting career on ITV's This is your Life. She joined the BBC as a producer in 1987, and went on to become a reporter on BBC2's Newsnight.
David McCullagh - Presenter
Dubliner David McCullagh began working as a journalist in the Evening Press in 1989. He moved to RTÉ in 1993, where he worked on radio programmes the News at One and This Week and on television news.
Eithne O'Brien - Reporter
Eithne O'Brien is from Kinnitty in Co. Offaly and has been a part of the Prime Time team since 1998 . She studied English and Politics in NUI Galway and has a Masters in Film and Television from DCU.
Richard Downes - Reporter
Richard Downes is a Prime Time reporter. Newly returned from a three-year assignment as Washington Correspondent, Richard joined RTÉ in 1999 after a decade of working as a foreign correspondent for the BBC in war zones and developing countries.
Robert Shortt - Reporter
Robert Shortt began his career with RTÉ in 1998 working across radio and television news before becoming Business Correspondent in 2001. During that time, he set up and co-presented The Business programme on RTÉ Radio 1
Fran McNulty - Reporter
An award winning journalist, Fran McNulty has worked with RTÉ since 2005. He has worked as a reporter for Radio, Television & online. He has also presented some of RTÉ's leading Radio Programmes, like Morning Ireland, This Week & News at One.
Barry Cummins - Reporter
Barry joined Prime Time in October 2011, having worked in the RTÉ Newsroom since 2003. A native of Tallaght, Barry began his journalistic career as a radio reporter with East Coast Radio in Bray and Midlands Radio in Mullingar.
Rita O'Reilly - Reporter
Rita O'Reilly is the reporter behind several Prime Time and Prime Time Investigates documentaries, amongst them the highest ever rating Prime Time Investigates - Carry on Regardless, on Irish developers, and a report by Prime Time into the Stardust fire.
Mark Coughlan - Reporter
Mark Coughlan has been a reporter for Prime Time since November 2012. Prior to that he was a freelance journalist and ran thestory.ie, a blog focused on data journalism, information transparency, and Irish current affairs.
Katie Hannon - Political Correspondent
Katie Hannon is Prime Time's Political Correspondent, having previously been Political Correspondent of the Evening Herald and the Irish Examiner and Political Editor of the Irish Mail on Sunday.
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