Ciara Kelly is an Irish radio presenter, columnist and former GP.
10 Facts About Ciara Kelly
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Ciara Kelly has a weekly column with the Sunday Independent.
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Ciara Kelly went into practice and did media work, including breakfast television on TV3 and presenting Doctors on Call on RTE.
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Ciara Kelly was the medical expert on Operation Transformation, a television series on RTE, which won an IFTA in 2014, and on George Hook's lunchtime radio show on Newstalk.
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Ciara Kelly is the instigator of the public health initiative "100 Days of Walking".
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On 18 March 2020, Ciara Kelly announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous day.
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Ciara Kelly discussed her diagnosis on Liveline, and Miriam O'Callaghan interviewed her for Prime Time through Skype from her home.
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Ciara Kelly had continued to present the Monday and Tuesday editions of her programme, Lunchtime Live, from the hot press in her home, and Mick Heaney of The Irish Times described her Wednesday programme as "a compelling show, remarkably so considering it was hosted by an ill woman sitting in an airing cupboard".
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Ciara Kelly was a long-time client of Noel Ciara Kelly, of NK Management, until it emerged that he had been funneling secret payments to Ryan Tubridy.
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Ciara Kelly left Noel Kelly and NK Management in 2023 following the emergence of Kelly's involvement in the secret payments to Ryan Tubridy, announcing that she had been with him since 2014.