Radio

Fionnuala's career in broadcasting began as newscaster on Chris Cary's Energy Power 103 FM in 1987, a "Superpirate" in Dublin where she was a co-presenter on "Wake Up With Energy" along with Pat Courtenay and Bob Gallico.^[3] In 1988 she left Energy to work as a newscaster at RTÉ 2FM^[4] before becoming a television reporter with RTÉ news. In early 2018, she returned to the RTÉ airwaves to co-present the political commentary show Late Debate [www.rte.ie/radio1/latedebate] on RTÉ Radio 1 at 10pm.^[5]

Television journalism

While a television journalist at RTÉ, Fionnuala was the sole host of the 38th Eurovision Song Contest in 1993.^[6] She then moved to CNN, where she was an anchor at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, before relocating with CNN to London where she anchored World News Europe (and briefly World One),^[4] regularly traveling on assignment as a reporter to the Middle East and Europe. She also hosted Design 360, a program looking at the creative process, the social context, the business perspective and the influence of design throughout and beyond Europe.

In 2002, she was named the anchor of Your World Today.^[7] and, in addition, anchored International Correspondents, a weekly behind the scenes look at the stories making global news, before returning to Atlanta to host CNN Newsroom and serving as the primary substitute on The International Desk.^[4][8][9]