Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh is an award-winning journalist with RTÉ News and Current Affairs.

Máire Treasa holds a BA (hons) degree in Irish and Psychology, and a Higher Diploma in Applied Communications from National University of Ireland, Galway.  She’s currently studying for an MSc in Sports, Exercise and Performance Psychology in the University of Limerick and hopes to graduate early next year. A native of Galway, Máire Treasa has worked as a journalist since 2005. She worked freelance in RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, and in print media for a few years, until she began working full-time as a news coordinator and director for Nuacht TG4 in 2007. She then trained as a video-journalist and began producing and presenting her own reports for Nuacht RTÉ and TG4. She completed two Circom journalism training courses, in Slovenia and in Germany, and whilst abroad contributed reports from Nuremberg and Poland to the Nationwide programme. She began working in the RTÉ newsroom in 2013. As an Irish speaker, Máire Treasa broadcasts in both Irish and in English. During the state visit of President Michael D. Higgins to the United Kingdom in 2014, she co-presented a live bilingual programme on RTÉ One from Windsor as Queen Elizabeth II received President Higgins. She was appointed as GAA Reporter by RTÉ News and Current Affairs earlier this year, and now travels the length and breadth of the country telling the many stories of the GAA community. In January 2015, she was awarded a GAA McNamee award for her contribution to GAA reporting in broadcast and in print. If she's not at work, she's willing her beloved An Cheathrú Rua or Galway along. Sam, or Liam, is coming home... someday.