Barry Lenihan has been announced as RT\u00c9’s new Political Correspondent.<\/p>\n
Mr Lenihan joined the broadcaster in 2013 as an intern, before becoming a multi-media journalist in the RT\u00c9 newsroom.<\/p>\n
He joined RT\u00c9 Radio 1 a year later and has reported on all major political stories for the station for the past decade, working as a key journalist in the coverage of elections and referenda.<\/p>\n
He has presented RT\u00c9 Radio 1 programmes, including This Week, Drivetime and The Late Debate.<\/p>\n
Mr Lenihan created and co-presented the Know Your Constituency RT\u00c9 podcast – a guide to all 43 constituencies in the 2024 General Election.<\/p>\n
He also reported on significant events in British politics from Westminster, as well as broadcasting live from Rome for the election of Pope Leo XIV in 2025.<\/p>\n
Mr Lenihan received a Headline Mental Health Media Award in 2022 for his reports on the Kerry CAMHS scandal and won ‘News Reporter of the Year\u2019 at the awards.<\/p>\n
He holds a BA in Journalism from Dublin City University.<\/p>\n
Mr Lenihan said: “I’m really looking forward to getting started and being part of the great team that is RT\u00c9’s Political Unit, serving audiences across broadcast and digital media. I know I’m following some great people who’ve held this role over the years, so it’s a real honour to take on the position”.<\/p>\n
Mr Lenihan will start his new role later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Lenihan has been announced as RT\u00c9’s new Political Correspondent. Mr Lenihan joined the broadcaster in 2013 as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-378402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}