Sean Whelan is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 journalist. He is a former Europe

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 Editor for RTÉ News and Current Affairs. He is currently Economics Correspondent with RTÉ

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

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He graduated from University College Dublin

University College Dublin

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 with a degree in History and Politics. He then obtained a postgraduate in journalism from the National Institute for Higher Education

National Institute for Higher Education

A National Institute for Higher Education was a category of higher education institution established in the Republic of Ireland to provide higher level technical education above the standard of the then established Regional Technical College system but at university level...

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Whelan joined RTÉ in 1991 at the same time as Mark Little

Mark Little (Irish journalist)

Mark Little is an Irish journalist, television presenter, author and "social media visionary". He presented Prime Time for RTÉ until December 2009. He took a year of leave of absence from RTÉ to pursue a project centred around digital media and global journalism...

, Rachael English

Rachael English

Rachael English is an award-winning Irish journalist and broadcaster. She is known for presenting Five Seven Live for six years. English has also presented other radio shows, such as RTÉ News at One,Today with Pat Kenny, The Marian Finucane Show and The Late Debate as well as a permanent presenter...

 and Paul Reynolds

Paul Reynolds (RTE journalist)

Paul Reynolds is an Irish journalist. He has been on the main RTÉ News and Current Affairs programmes, in both television and radio, almost daily for over a decade....

. He worked in a number of areas, such as the Foreign Desk. He has reported from wars in Bosnia and Kosovo

Kosovo

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 and on the return of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 to the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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He became based in Brussels

Brussels

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 from 1999. In 2001 he became Europe Correspondent, and was appointed Europe Editor in 2003. After the resignation of George Lee as Economics Editor to begin a career in politics, Whelan became Economics Correspondent.

External links

• Sean Whelan's views on the Treaty of Lisbon
  Treaty of Lisbon
  The Treaty of Lisbon of 1668 was a peace treaty between Portugal and Spain, concluded at Lisbon on 13 February 1668, through the mediation of England, in which Spain recognized the sovereignty of Portugal's new ruling dynasty, the House of Braganza....