RT\u00c9 broadcasters Mary Wilson and \u00c1ine Lawlor have presented their final Morning Ireland radio programme on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Ms Wilson has retired from the national broadcaster, while Ms Lawlor is taking a step back from the show. She will continue to present The Week in Politics and feature across RT\u00c9\u2019s coverage of the forthcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n
New presenters of Ireland\u2019s most listened-to radio show are due to be unveiled by RT\u00c9 in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Ms Wilson said she felt \u201cincredibly lucky\u201d to have had \u201c35 wonderful years\u201d in RT\u00c9 and thanked her colleagues and listeners. <\/p>\n
She said her standout memory, while working as legal affairs correspondent, was \u201cordinary people\u201d trusting her to tell their stories. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s big names who sail in and sail out\u2026[but] it\u2019s those ordinary people who fight the good fight and trust you to tell their story for them, be true to them. I know that\u2019s what will stand out to me,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Ms Wilson joined the broadcaster\u2019s newsroom in 1990. Since then, the Tipperary native\u2019s career has been book ended by roles at Morning Ireland.<\/p>\n
She began as a reporter on the show before going on to be legal affairs correspondent, editor and the first presenter of Drivetime in 2006. She returned to present Morning Ireland in 2020.<\/p>\n
Ms Wilson said she was \u201cfortunate\u201d to be able to retire, saying she was looking forward to becoming a radio listener, as opposed to a presenter, alongside \u201cindulging my many hobbies\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Lawlor, who has presented Morning Ireland for 17 years in total, joined the broadcaster in 1984.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a privilege to be part of Morning Ireland for so many years, to be a part of the programme so many listeners turn to at the start of the day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Sports presenter Des Cahill said he wanted to acknowledge the \u201ctwo wonderful broadcasters\u201d and thanked them for their \u201cprofessionalism, dedication, and commitment to the important role of public service broadcasting\u201d. <\/p>\n
Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin also acknowledged the two presenters on X and said they would \u201cboth be missed\u201d. <\/p>\n
In a statement, RT\u00c9 said new Morning Ireland presenters would be announced shortly.<\/p>\n
Last month it was announced that Claire Byrne would be departing RT\u00c9 and her Today programme to join rival Newstalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 broadcasters Mary Wilson and \u00c1ine Lawlor have presented their final Morning Ireland radio programme on Wednesday. Ms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,55177,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-82621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-morning-ireland","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}