Fionnuala Sweeney is a news reporter and anchor for CNN, based in London from where she anchors the prime time evening European-focused news programme World News Europe.
As a correspondent, Sweeney has reported from around Europe and the Middle East and amongst her many assignment has covered the London bombings. In 2004 she travelled around Eastern Europe for reports and packages on countries preparing to join the European Union, as part of CNN’s special coverage on EU enlargement. She reported from Israel and the Palestinian territories between September and November 2003 and covered the Israeli elections for CNN in February 2001. She has also interviewed the former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the days before his overthrow and travelled to Paris to cover Tom Ford’s last show for the Gucci Group.
Sweeney was the launch anchor of ‘World News Europe’, having previously launched ‘CNN This Morning’ in September 1997, the network’s first European breakfast news programme produced from London. Previously Sweeney was an anchor in London and in CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta for ‘World News’ where she covered major stories including the humanitarian crisis in Zaire, the Docklands bomb in London, the Bosnian conflict, the British elections and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
Sweeney joined CNN from RTE in Ireland where she worked as a radio and television news reporter and newscaster from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, she was selected to present the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of RTE, broadcast live to 350 million people in three languages.
A native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sweeney has a higher diploma in Education and a bachelor degree in English and History from the University College, Dublin.
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