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ANTHONY MURNANE - RTE Deputy Foreign Editor & News Anchor
Anthony Murnane is currently deputy foreign editor and a news anchor on RTE TV, Ireland's national television station. Anthony has worked at RTE in radio and television journalism since 1991. He moved from sub editing and reporting on RTE Radio One News to 2FM where he was the morning news presenter on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show and the Gerry Ryan Show in the mid '90s. Anthony also produced and presented year end reviews on 2FM before moving to the RTE News 2 programme as a presenter/reporter of the inniovatively styled programme designed to appeal to alate night younger news audience in 1997. He has covered many live breaking news events - among them the attack on Iraq in 1998 and he was the RTE News anchor presenting coverage of the 9/11 attacks as they happened just aftre 14.00 local time in 2001. Anthony took on an editorial/presentation role on the News on 2 programme in the early-mid 2000's. He then moved to the RTE News Foreign Desk as deputy Foreign Editor in 2006, co-ordinating RTE News foreign coverage. Anthony produced and reported from Washington for RTEs coverage of the US elections on the night Barack Obama became the first black President of the US. He also reported and presented UK election coverage from Bristol and London in May 2010. He also travelled to report on President McAleese's state visit to New Zealand in 2007. Anthony continues to appear as an occasional presenter on all the main RTE news bulletins.