Ronan Kelly
Ronan Kelly has worked in RTE since 1987. Prior to that he worked in CNN, Channel 13 in New York and as a commercial video producer. He began in RTÉ TV as a presenter/reporter in health and environment programmes and then became a radio producer in 1990. He originally produced daytime Radio 1 programmes: Gay Byrne Show, Today with Pat Kenny, Liveline, Five Seven Live, Marian Finucane. He also worked on new projects for RTÉ Radio: the computerisation of radio production and output (2000) and designing and launching the digital radio station, RTÉ Choice (now Radio 1 Extra) in 2007.
He has taught feature radio production in Dublin City University and has been a guest lecturer in IT Tallaght, Griffith College, NUU, Coleraine, BBC Northern Ireland, Goldsmiths College, London and at the Salt Institute, Portland, Maine, USA. Since 2011, Ronan has worked full-time with Documentary On One including producing the short documentary series, The Curious Ear (now discontinued). Ronan has also worked with RTÉ television, recording voice-overs for TV documentaries and as a video journalist for 'Nationwide'.
In his spare time, he also produces an online video channel of short travel documentaries, Ronan Kelly's Ireland. He has presented/produced RTÉ Radio's weekly compilation programme, Playback. Currently, Ronan presents It Says In The Papers on RTE's morning news programme, Morning Ireland.