Katie Hannon RTE :: Wedding, Husband, Family, Married, Age, Wiki Bio

• Katie Hannon is an Irish journalist, writer and political correspondent who works for RTÉ Ireland.
• Talented and a natural multi-tasker, Katie does a good job of balancing her career with being a mother and a wife.

• Katie was born and raised in Ireland. The prominent journalist is from Listowel, County Kerry, and now lives in Dublin and refers to herself as an “exiled Kerrywoman.”
• She is a very private person & rarely discusses her personal life in the media. As such, little information is known about her background, childhood and early life in general.
• Hannon is a happily married woman and has 12-years-old twin daughters (age as of 2023) whom she mentions occupy most of her time when she is at home. Katie does a good job of keeping her family life under wraps & with the exception of a couple of posts on social media, she prefers to keep most personal details about her life private.

• First educated at the Our Lady of Fatima School in Listowel, Katie then studied journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
• In the early years of her career, Katie held several working positions across different platforms that included being a colour writer, a social diarist and an opinion columnist.
• One of her first jobs was as the social diarist for The Herald at the age of 21. Working in this role, Katie attended constant splashy events and started a friendship with music manager Louis Walsh. She even jokes that she gave Louis the idea to kickstart the Irish boy band Boyzone.
• Katie eventually decided to venture into Political Journalism & began working for the Evening Herald as a Political Correspondent before moving on to join the Irish Examiner.
• Katie also worked for the Sunday Irish Mail as their Political Editor.
• In 2004, she joined the RTE team as a Broadcast Journalist for their Prime Time show.
• At RTE, Katie also worked as a reporter, covering multiple topics that included important investigations being conducted on vaccine trials being carried out in children’s homes, child protection services failures, banking scandals & problems in the waste industry. She was eventually promoted to be the station’s Political Correspondent.
• Since September 2019, Katie is also a presenter for ‘The Late Debate’ on RTE. she also works for RTE as their Political Correspondent & is based in their Department of Current Affairs.

• Besides being a reporter, journalist and political correspondent, Hannon is also an author and has previously written a book titled, The Naked Politician. The book which was published in 2004 offers a detailed account of Irish Politics and all of its challenges, failures and successes.

Katie has had quite a successful career & throughout the years, she has received quite a handful of accolades that include the following :

• The Young Journalist of the Year Award given to her by the Irish Goods Council.
• The 2012 Story of the Year Award which she won at the Annual GSK Medical Media Awards.
• The John Healy National Print Award.

• Katie Hannon is a regular user of social media and enjoys using her accounts as platforms to continue delivering political updates and opinions to her followers.
• During one particular episode of her Prime Time show on RTE, a viewer took note of the Biro pen that Katie was using and decided to send her four, brand new, stylish pens that could use as replacements. Moved by their kindness, Katie posted a picture of the pens along with the handwritten note that accompanied them on social media. In her post, she thanked the viewer for their kindness and generous gesture.