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University College Dublin.
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Olivia O'Leary
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Career
Educated at St Leo's College, Carlow and at University College Dublin (UCD), she worked with the Nationalist and Leinster Times in Carlow. In the late 1970s she began working for The Irish Times as parliamentary sketchwriter. She currently broadcasts a weekly a political diary on Drivetime, a radio programme broadcast by Raidió Teilifís Éireann's channel RTÉ Radio 1.
In 1972 she joined Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) as a current affairs presenter and later worked as a presenter on Today Tonight, Questions and Answers and Prime Time. She became the first regular female senior presenter of the BBC's current affairs programme, Newsnight and also presented First Tuesday, a monthly documentary strand produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. Her first came in 1973 for her work as a radio news reporter. She has co-authored the book Mary Robinson: The Authorised Biography, with Dr Helen Burke, and in 2004 wrote Politicians and Other Animals, a sketch on Irish politics.
She was Chairperson of the Office of the Ombudsman's 20th Anniversary Conference. He died suddenly in September 2008. She has one daughter, Emily Tansey.
On 5 December 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by her alma mater UCD.
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Religion
Church of Ireland