Journalist, presenter, researcher.
Aisling Moloney
Experience
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Political Correspondent, Irish Daily Mail.
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Multi-Media Journalist, RTÉ News.
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Presenter, reporter and producer, news2day, RTÉ.
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Reporter, Business Post.
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SEO reporter, MailOnline, Metro.co.uk.
Aisling is an Irish journalist with nearly a decade of experience across print, digital, television and radio platforms.
She previously worked for Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ, as a muli-media journalist, producer and presenter, and she was most recently Political Correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail newspaper.
Aisling is relocating to Australia in November 2024 and looking for work in the media industry, keen to use and improve her skills as a breaking news and political journalist, as well as a radio and TV producer.
She has a First Class Honours degree - Bachelor of Arts - in journalism and economics, and won the Justice Media Award in 2023 for her reporting on domestic violence with Ireland's most popular radio programme Morning Ireland.
She has also worked for online publication Metro.co.uk in London, and completed a semester abroad at Murdoch University in Perth for her degree.
Aisling is known for being extremely hard-working and passionate about her craft. She is a proven problem solver, used to thinking on her feet and working under intense pressure to stick to tight deadlines.
Read Aisling's CV here.
Breaking news
Aisling was sent to London with only an hour's notice when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022. She was part of the team which broadcast a special Morning Ireland radio programme live from the Irish embassy in London having only arrived in the UK hours beforehand. Aisling reported at the top of the programme on what British and international newspapers were writing the morning after the news broke of the Monarch's death. After, she reported from outside Buckingham Palace with a vox pop of mourners laying flowers at the gates.
Explainers
This is an explainer on the Proportional Representation vote system which Aisling created for news2day, the national children's news programme, during the Irish General Election in 2020. She came up with the idea of the classroom being a constituency to demonstrate how the votes are counted in the Irish electoral system. As reporter and producer she divised the script, storyboarded the shots required, and worked with a camera man to get the desired sequences. She then edited the package on Avid. The package aired live on the programme and went viral on social media with over half a million views across platforms.
For two years Aisling presented and produced RTÉ's children's news programme news2day. She was responsible for filling the daily ten minute programme with a selection of VTs suitable for children, including daily reports on stories from classrooms across the country. She also executed several special programmes during the pandemic with top health officials explaining covid-19 restrictions to children.
Investigative reporting
As a reporter on RTE's flagship morning news radio programme Morning Ireland, Aisling did a deep dive into the situation faced by victims of domestic violence. She surveyed every women's refuge in the country to see how many of them were full to capacity leaving nowhere for victims to seek safety if they were facing abuse. Over half of the refuges contacted reported being full to capacity with many reporting women were having to stay in refuge for many months due to the lack of safe housing.