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PODCAST: Interview with Carrick's Carole Coleman as she prepares to leave RTE

Jul 24, 2025 13:21
By Eoghan Murphy
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PODCAST: Interview with Carrick's Carole Coleman as she prepares to leave RTE

Carrick-on-Shannon’s Carole Coleman is leaving RTE at the end of next month, after decades with the station.

She’s best known for her challenging interview with George W Bush in 2004, as Washington correspondent.

Now, she’s taking up a job teaching journalism at the University of Galway and will also be a freelance journalist.

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Eoghan Murphy met her in Carrick and first asked her why she became a journalist:

 

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