Eileen Magnier – From RTE reporter to rocking retirement
5 September 2025 - 51 mins
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The Mario Rosenstock Podcast
Eileen Magnier spent 35 years as RTE’s North west correspondent, and in that time she covered an incredible number of stories of all different kinds. It was a job that she loved, but it was also very demanding and unpredictable in nature. Sometimes Eileen would have to report on incredibly tragic stories like the Creeslough explosion in co Donegal in 2022, in which 10 people died. This was a part of the job that Eileen took very seriously, as it is so important to cover these stories sympathetically and accurately, and with consideration to those left behind.
The physical and emotional toll of the work, after over three decades, was starting to become very apparent to Eileen and so, just o...
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