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Fran McNulty - Presenter/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.

Prime Time Team • 16 Mar 23

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.

Prime Time Team • 07 Oct 15

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.

Prime Time Team • 19 Apr 16

Richard Downes - Editor

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.

Prime Time Team • 16 Mar 23

Barry Cummins – Security Corresspondent

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.

Prime Time • 16 Mar 23

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.

Prime Time Team • 06 Feb 19