Peter Cluskey

Peter Cluskey (born February 8, 1958) is a third-generation Irish journalist and media adviser.
TV and Radio Background
Cluskey spent more than a decade, from 1991, with the Irish State broadcaster RTE, where he worked as a TV newscaster, radio presenter, and correspondent.
He presented all the key current affairs programmes on 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.
He also worked as RTE's Business & Employment Correspondent, and later (1999-2001) as Industry Editor, responsible for all coverage of 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.
Communications Advisor
Cluskey left RTE in late 2001 to become Head of Corporate Affairs at the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO), 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. The DTO was subsumed at the end of 2009 into Ireland's new National Transport Authority.
Early career
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 (later renamed to Irish 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.
Poetry
He is a member of the National Union of Journalists and of the Irish Film and Television Academy. His his poetry has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Pebble Two, The Irish Press and is online with JSTOR, the US-based international academic archive.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu