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Geraldine McInerney was an Irish journalist and
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on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's national broadcaster, during the early 1970s. She went on to become the first woman to read the news on
RTÉ Television RTÉ Television is a department of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's public service broadcaster. Its first channel was Telefís Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961. Since the 1960s, RTÉ Television has added chan ...
in October 1975. She moved to the United States in the late 1970s, and worked in public relations.A former RTÉ newsreader, her enchanting friend, and the worlds most notorious murder suspect
Dan MacGuill, www.thejournal.ie, 7 April 2015.
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were among some of her clients.


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Barbara Mandell Allada Barbara Grenville Wells (15 July 1920 – 25 August 1998), known professionally as Barbara Mandell, was a British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer. She became the United Kingdom's first female newsreader after she wa ...
, ITN's first onscreen female newsreader in 1955 *
Nan Winton Nancy Wigginton (6 November 1925 – 11 May 2019), known professionally as Nan Winton, was a British broadcaster, best known for being the first female newsreader to read the national news on BBC television. Career Winton (born Nancy Wigginton) ...
, the BBC's first onscreen newsreader in 1960


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