The Dan Gilbert Memorial Lecture: A Discussion with Noel Curran, Director General of RTÉ
This event, scheduled for Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 7pm for 7.45pm in the
Exhibition Centre, Europa Hotel, Belfast, has had to be postponed due to circumstances beyond our control.
It will be re-arranged for a future date.
Noel Curran was appointed Director General of RTÉ in November 2010 with effect from February 2011. He is a native of Co. Monaghan and a graduate of Dublin City University. Noel's experience in Irish media runs from the print industry to senior management level in broadcasting, taking in high level and diverse production experience in Current Affairs and Entertainment programmes in addition to work in the independent production sector.
Noel Curran completed a BA in Communications from Dublin City University before beginning work in the print media as a business journalist. He was Deputy Editor with Business and Finance before joining RTÉ in 1992. In RTÉ Noel worked as a reporter, producer and editor in RTÉ Television.
He was executive producer of the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1997 and served two terms as Editor of Current Affairs in the News Division, where he established the Prime Time Investigates programme strand. Noel Curran joined RTÉ's Executive as Managing Director of Television in 2003.
In March 2010 Noel left RTÉ to pursue private business interests. He has previously been a company director in the independent production sector in Ireland.
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