Eileen Dunne was born on 28 April 1958 and is an Irish retired journalist, newsreader and presenter with RTE, Ireland's national radio and television station, where she presented the main television news programmes Six One News, Nine O'Clock News and One O'Clock News including all other news bulletins on both radio and television from 1980 to 2022.
14 Facts About Eileen Dunne
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Eileen Dunne was the co-anchor alongside Sharon Ni Bheolain of RTE's flagship Nine O'Clock News and presented afternoon bulletins for RTE Radio 1.
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Eileen Dunne's father was the RTE journalist, presenter and commentator, Mick Dunne, a native of Clonaslee, County Laois.
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Eileen Dunne attended secondary school at Manor House School, Raheny.
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Eileen Dunne continued her teaching duties, while working part-time as a radio continuity announcer on RTE Radio 1.
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Eileen Dunne was International President of the Association of European Journalists.
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Eileen Dunne was the spokesperson giving the results of the Irish jury in the Eurovision Song Contest between 1989 and 1998.
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Eileen Dunne regularly featured on RTE coverage of major state occasions.
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Eileen Dunne provided the RTE television commentary on the state funerals of Garret FitzGerald and Albert Reynolds and the state commemoration of the Battle of the Somme.
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Eileen Dunne presented the coverage of Pope Francis's visit to Knock Shrine in 2018.
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Eileen Dunne presented news programmes from the UK on the State Visit of President Higgins there in 2014, from Dublin Castle and Croke Park during Queen Elizabeth's state visit to Ireland in 2011 and from Ballybunion during the then US President Bill Clinton's visit to Ireland in 1998.
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Eileen Dunne presented from Rome on the inauguration of Pope Benedict in 2005 and his resignation in 2013 and from Blacksod Bay, Mayo on the day of the R116 Air Crash in 2017.
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In December 2023, Eileen Dunne was announced as one of the eleven celebrities taking part in the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars.
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Eileen Dunne is married to the actor Macdara O Fatharta since 1993; he plays the part of the villain Tadhg in the Irish language TG4 drama, Ros na Run.