Una O'Hagan (born 1962) is an Irish author, journalist and former newsreader with RTÉ,[1] Ireland's national radio and television station.
[7] In 1990, in Zambia, she met and interviewed Nelson Mandela, who had been released from captivity on Robben Island just two weeks earlier.
[9] She also reported on the release of Beirut hostage Brian Keenan in 1990,[10] the negotiations in Brussels for the new EU constitution in 2003,[11] and she co-presented RTÉ's coverage of the events of 9/11.
[12] As a newscaster, she hosted live programmes on the deaths of former Taoiseach Jack Lynch in 1999[13] and Garret FitzGerald in 2011, the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland in 2011,[14] and the 2012 United States presidential election.
[17] They wrote four books together: the No.1 bestseller The Little Flower, St. Thérèse of Lisieux: The Irish Connection, published in September 2018,[18][19] and the bestselling book Animal Crackers: Irish Pet Stories, published in June 2016.