Sean Whelan is an Irish journalist. He is the

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correspondent since February 2022. He previously was the

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correspondent,

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Editor and Economics Correspondent for RTÉ News.

Career

He graduated from

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with a degree in History and Politics. He then obtained a postgraduate in journalism from the

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. Whelan joined RTÉ in 1991 at the same time as Mark Little,

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and Paul Reynolds. He worked in a number of areas, such as the Foreign Desk. He has reported from wars in

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and

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and on the return of

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to the

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. He was based in

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from 1999. In 2001, he became Europe Correspondent, and was appointed Europe Editor in 2003. After the resignation of George Lee as Economics Editor to begin a career in politics, Whelan became Economics Correspondent. In March 2019, it was announced that he would succeed Fiona Mitchell as the

correspondent for RTÉ News. On 21 January 2022, it was announced by RTÉ that Whelan would succeed Brian O'Donovan as the new

correspondent from February 2022.

References

External links

Sean Whelan's views
on the

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