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Brendan O'Connor (journalist), Brendan O'Connor
Brendan O'Connor may refer to: * Brendan O'Connor (media personality) (born 1970), Irish comedian, columnist, and media personality * Brendan O'Connor (politician) (born 1962), Australian politician and federal government minister * Brendan O'Connor (soldier), Special Forces medical sergeant See also * Brendan Connor Brendan Connor is a Canadian radio and television journalist, currently a reporter with CBC Northern Ontario in Sudbury. Prior to CBC, he spent 13 years anchoring and reporting for CTV Northern Ontario. His father, Michael Connor, was a longtime ..., Canadian sports journalist * Brendon O'Connor, New Zealand rugby union footballer {{hndis, Oconnor, Brendan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan O'Connor (media Personality)
Brendan O'Connor (born 23 January 1970) is an Irish media personality and former comedian. He presents the Current Affairs panel show ''Cutting Edge'' on RTÉ. He presented ''The Saturday Night Show'' on RTÉ from 2010 to 2015, he is also known for his columns in the '' Sunday Independent'' newspaper. He is also editor of the newspaper's ''Life Magazine''. O'Connor's pop career included a one-hit wonder as Fr Brian & The Fun Loving Cardinals, the comedy song " Who's in the House?", reaching number 3 in the Irish charts. O'Connor has pursued varied media career over several decades in Ireland. During the 1990s he appeared on '' Don't Feed the Gondolas'', as well as on a number of other TV programmes. During the 2000s he served a member of the judging panel on Raidió Teilifís Éireann's (RTÉ) ''You're a Star'' TV talent contest before presenting '' The Apprentice: You're Fired!'' and ''The Saturday Night Show''. With a salary of €228,500 in 2011, he is one of RTÉ's highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan O'Connor (politician)
Brendan Patrick O'Connor (born 2 March 1962) is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Skills and Training from 2022 to 2024 in the Albanese ministry after having served in the same portfolio in 2013 in the Second Rudd ministry. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2025. He held ministerial office in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013, including as a member of cabinet from 2012 to 2013. He was a member of the shadow cabinet from 2013 to 2022. O'Connor announced his retirement from Federal Parliament effective at 2025 Australian federal election. Early life O'Connor was born on 2 March 1962 in London, England. He is the son of Michael and Philomena O'Connor. His parents were both born in Ireland, his mother in Thurles and his father in Tralee. O'Connor was born with both Irish and British citizenship, renouncing the latter in the early 1980s. He acquired Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan O'Connor (soldier)
Sergeant Major Brendan W. O'Connor (born 1960) is a retired Special Forces medical sergeant in the United States Army. On April 30, 2008, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic action in Afghanistan. The DSC is the nation's second highest award for valor (after the Medal of Honor) and this was only the second time since the Vietnam War that the medal was awarded. Early life Brendan W. O'Connor was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, the fifth of six children, to LTC Mortimer O'Connor and Elizabeth O'Connor. After his father died in combat in Vietnam, the family settled in Moorestown, New Jersey, where he attended Moorestown High School. Brendan enlisted in the United States Army Reserve (USAR) and enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Valley Forge Military Junior College at Wayne, Pennsylvania, in 1978. O'Connor was commissioned in 1980 and served as the Executive Officer of Special Forces Operational Detac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Connor
Brendan Connor is a Canadian radio and television journalist, currently a reporter with CBC Northern Ontario in Sudbury. Prior to CBC, he spent 13 years anchoring and reporting for CTV Northern Ontario. His father, Michael Connor, was a longtime TV news anchor for the same station. He left CTV in early 2024 amid staffing cutbacks at parent corporation Bell Media. Before CTV, he worked as a sports reporter for the English service of Al Jazeera, based out of Washington, DC, and out of Doha, Qatar.William Houston"Veteran journalist joins Al-Jazeera sports" ''The Globe and Mail'', May 12, 2006. For Al Jazeera English, Brendan profiled two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash and also reported on NFL football, NHL hockey, curling, the U-S Open Tennis Championship, the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the 2007 America's Cup yacht racing, the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, the 2007 World Anti-Doping Conference in Madrid and the humanitarian sports group Right to Play. In 2008, he did stories on Turkish N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
