[4] Educated at Loreto Convent, Bray, she studied journalism at NIHE, now Dublin City University, and in Preston, Lancashire.

[3] Traynor has been nominated twice by the Royal Television Society awards for the Presenter of the Year category.

[2][3] Around this time, Traynor began reading television news bulletins, and was later promoted to the position of main anchor on BBC Newsline.

[2] On 15 November 2021, it was announced that Traynor had resigned from BBC Northern Ireland with immediate effect after 33 years at the corporation.

[5] Claiming discrimination on grounds of age, sex and disability, she brought a case before the employment tribunal against BBC Northern Ireland and its then news director, later director, Adam Smyth, which was settled without admission of liability in June 2023.