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Fionnuala Sweeney first came to the public's attention when she appeared on RTE's (Radio Teilifis Eireann) radio and on television screens as a newsreporter and newscaster from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, she was selected to present the Eurovision Song Contest from Millstreet in County Cork, on behalf of RTE, broadcasted live in three languages to 350 million people. Always looking for new challenges, Fionnuala decided to leave RTE and try out working abroad. She travelled to the United States to take up a job as news anchor in Atlanta, Georgia with the news network C.N.N. In September 1997 she helped to successfully launch 'CNN This Morning', the global news network's European morning news programme produced from London and Berlin.
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She's
CNN International's top presenter in London. She took up the role as
anchor of the two 30-minute evening news programmes broadcast out of
London in November 1998. She is also the host of the CNN International's
weekly culture magazine programme 'Inside Europe'. The programme
features offshoots of the big news stories. It covers a different topic
every week.
Previously Sweeney anchored 'World News' from London and before that from Atlanta. Among the stories Sweeney has anchored for 'World News' are the humanitarian crisis in Zaire, the Docklands Bomb in London, the Bosnian conflict, the British elections and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. A native of Belfast, Fionnuala is now based in London where she has lived for the last four years. But her first two years were spent in Georgia and has regularly commutes between there and London. Fionnuala is originally from Ireland and lived there with her family until she was 12 when they moved to Dublin in the 70's. Sweeney has a higher diploma in Education and a bachelor degree in English and History from the University College, Dublin. Who knows what the future will bring her. |
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I catched on Traditional Irish Names that explains what her first name means :
Fionnuala - (fi-NOO-la) also can be Fiona; 'fair shoulders' or 'white, fair.' Fionnula, Finola, Nuala.
© 2000, 2001 by
Pascal R. Metzger
