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Peter Cluskey (born February 8, 1958) is a third-generation Irish journalist and media adviser with extensive experience in print, radio and television.

Cluskey - who divides his time between France and The Netherlands - spent more than a decade, from 1991, with the Irish State broadcaster, RTE, where he worked as a TV newscaster, radio presenter, and correspondent, covering high-profile news stories at home and abroad.

He presented all the key current affairs programmes on RTE radio, including Morning Ireland (the current affairs programme with Ireland's largest and most influential morning listenership), The News at One, This Week and World Report.

On television, he presented the One O'Clock News and occasionally Six-One and The Nine O'Clock News.

At home, he also worked as Business & Employment Correspondent, and later (1999 - 2001), Industry Editor, responsible for coverage of all industry-related economic and employment issues across the broadcaster's two television and three radio channels.

He reported from all over the world during his time with RTE, including Belfast, London, Paris, Tokyo, Jerusalem and Beirut.

His Middle East coverage from 1996 to 2001 included the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, the historic Summit of Peacemakers in Sharm el-Sheikh in 1996 (attended by US President, Bill Clinton), Israeli elections which brought Likud's Benjamin Nethanyahu and Labour's Ehud Barak to power, the visit of Pope John Paul II, and Israel's long-awaited withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000.

He covered the aftermath of the devastating Kobe earthquake in Japan in January 1995, which killed 5,500 people, injured 26,000 more and caused the spectacular collapse of the Hanshin Expressway.

He covered two State visits by former Irish President, Mary Robinson - later to become United Nations High Commisioner for Human Rights - one to Japan and the other to France, travelling with President Robinson's contingent.

Cluskey left RTE in late 2001 to become Head of Corporate Affairs at the DTO (Dublin Transportation Office), the Irish State agency responsible for long-term strategic transport and land use planning in the capital and along the country's populous east coast.

There he was directly responsible to the agency's well-respected longtime CEO, John Henry, and to its chairman, former business chief, Conor McCarthy, for both internal and external communications, and particularly for liaison with Government departments and public sector stakeholders on the agency's blueprint, A Platform for Change, which set out a €16 billion integrated transport strategy to 2016, including the ligh rail system, LUAS, and a new metro system.

Cluskey began his career in 1979 with the legendary weekly, The Southern Star, after graduating from the National University of Ireland with a degree in Philosophy and English. He subsequently moved to the daily Cork Examiner, and in 1989 became a co-founder, executive director and Head of News and Current Affairs at one of Ireland's first licensed commercial radio stations, Radio South/96FM, which remains dominant today in Cork's competitive local radio market.

One of Cluskey's co-directors at 96FM was the well-known Australian radio doctor, Peter Benson, formerly General Manager of Sky Television.

Cluskey moved to south-west France in 2003, where he set up Brown & Green, a boutique communications consultancy (registered in The Netherlands) whose clients include UNESCO, The Global Consumer Forum in Paris, ABC Knowlgedge Company in Mallorca, and The Irish Times and The Irish Management Institute in Dublin.

His wife, Adrienne Cullen - who is Managing Editor of Brown & Green - is also an award-winning journalist and editor and the author of the bestselling "Thursday's Child: The Romanian Adoptions Story", which spent five weeks in 1991 high in the prestigeous Irish Times non-fiction bestseller rankings.

Given their media backgrounds, Brown & Green specialises in training senior business executives and politicians for radio and television interviews.

They live near Amersfoort in The Netherlands, and also have homes in south-west France and in Berlin, where they travel frequently.