Fran McNulty

Fran McNulty (born 10 December 1979, Ireland) is a multi award winning television presenter with the Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ. Fran is a native of County Longford.

Since 2005 McNulty has been a regular presenter on television and on radio programmes Morning Ireland, This Week and News at One.

McNulty spent several years working in local radio and print before joining RTÉ.

He has worked across Television, online and Radio with RTÉ and often reports from overseas on major international stories. As well as covering Papal funerals and conclaves in Rome, in 2013 he covered the funeral of Nelson Mandela presenting a special edition of Morning Ireland from Johannesburg. The Irish journalist interviewed members of the Mandela family and former South African President Thabo Mbeki during his visits to South Africa. He blogged and reported from all over South Africa during his time there.

In 2019 McNulty was appointed Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Correspondent for the National Broadcaster. In 2020 he won an award for Best Audio Report from the Irish Guild of Agricultural Journalists for a report he broadcast on Morning Ireland

On 22 March 2021, it was announced that McNulty had been appointed to present Prime Time alongside Miriam O'Callaghan and Sarah McInerney from 6 April.

As an anchor of the Current Affairs programme he continues to report. In 2021 his investigation into crack cocaine use in Dublin exposed illicit drug sales which experts said were of "epidemic" proportions.

In 2023 Fran McNulty conducted an investigation into how male calves from the Irish dairy sector are treated. The programme saw McNulty drive throughout Europe following trucks carrying Irish calves to locations in Spain and the Netherlands. The programme won a Royal Television Society Award for Investigative Journalism. It also won an international award from Circom. https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/rt%C3%A9-investigates-dairy-s-dirty-secret/418643496038

The journalist interviewed Israeli president Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem in November 2023. In the interview he challenged Herzog about accusations that the IDF had committed acts of genocide in the war in Gaza. During the interview McNulty asked the Israeli President how he would describe the death of thousands of children in Gaza, he responded, "It’s extremely painful and I cry about it as well, we care about the Palestinian people."

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2023/1128/1419018-israeli-president-questions-irish-indifference-to-israeli-pain/