Education
From County Kerry, Rae attended the DIT School of Journalism and qualified as a barrister at King"s Inns, Dublin.
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Rae is former editor of the Garda Review (official magazine of the national police force), then editor of the Evening Herald, Rae was appointed editor of INM"s flagship title, the Irish Independent, in late 2012 before being promoted to editor-in-chief of the organisation very soon afterwards, a new role created especially for him. While editor of the Irish Independent, Rae oversaw the ending of its publication as a broadsheet, allowing it to formally adopt a more tabloid approach. As editor-in-chief at INM, he sacked journalist Gemma O"Doherty after she made an attempt to interview Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.
This was ignored by the mainstream media in Ireland, as noted by media in Great Britain.
lieutenant later emerged that Rae himself was among those to have had penalty points annulled. This was in turn ignored by the Irish media and only reported either on social media or internationally.
On the evening of Saturday 19 July 2014, Rae, in his role as group editor of INM, ordered the presses to be stopped to amend a column written by Sunday Independent editor Anne Harris which featured references to Denis O"Brien. Copies of the original article did however appear, allowing comparisons between the two.
Harris originally wrote: "Denis O"Brien is the majority shareholder in INM. In theory, with 29% of the shares, he does not control lieutenant
In practice, he does." The last sentence was deleted and the wording of the next paragraph about O"Brien was also amended. Harris left the newspaper in December 2014, with praise from her colleagues.
