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🚨For the next few weeks we’re doing a @bbc show on the race to the @WhiteHouse with all the insights & info you need. Watch ‘Path to the Presidency’ with me & @SumiSomaskanda & @KattyKay_ Drops Fridays on @youtube & @bbcnews Ep.1⬇️
Caitriona Perry
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Caitriona Perry
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Irish Journalist in US. Chief Presenter BBC News. Former RTÉ Anchor & Foreign Correspondent. Author "The Tribe”& “In America:Tales from Trump Country"
- The US First Lady introduces her husband on stage at an event at Joint Base Andrews. He thanks her with a handshake.
00:00 - Video of the bizarre moment when President @realDonaldTrump called me over during his call with Taoiseach @campaignforLeo Varadkar. @rtenews
- All schools, colleges and childcare facilities to close from tomorrow says Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar in an address to the nation (from Washington DC). #Covid_19 #coronavirusTaoiseach Leo Varadkar is now giving a statement on the coronavirus outbreak | Read more: bit.ly/2W7t7X2 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
- Thinking of this legend today - the superstar mother, wife, sister, daughter, journalist, colleague and wonderful friend Keelin Shanley. She slipped away this day last year, but is held as tightly as always in our hearts and minds.
- The embassy move was announced in Oct 2008 (by the Bush administration), Obama was not elected until Nov 2008.Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
- Full rainbow has appeared in Ballina over the cathedral where President @JoeBiden will speak later tonight. @rtenews #BidenInIreland #BidenVisit
- What a lovely sign-off from Eileen Dunne who just presented her final @rtenews programme tonight as she retires after 42 years at @rte. Eileen is a warm and generous colleague and a real lady who’ll be missed around the newsroom. #rtenews #eileendunne
- Thinking of this legend today. Three years gone already. Always missed. Always loved. #KeelinShanley @rtenews
- For a couple of months before she died, Keelin Shanley was writing this book. It mattered so much to Keelin that people would read about her life, about living with cancer and could share her stories. It’s out Oct 2nd. Please do put it on your reading list if you can.In the last few months before she sadly passed away in February this year, Keelin Shanley was writing a memoir, 'A Light That Never Goes Out', which we are honoured to publish on 2nd October. Read more here: bit.ly/ALightThatNeve… #ALightThatNeverGoesOut
