Sandra Hurley knows what it’s all about covering politics in a pandemic.

A mathematics whizz kid - her career has taken her from the corporate world of investment banking to the newsroom. You’ll likely best know her as the face of RTE’s political news coverage bringing us the latest news and developments from Government Buildings.

She’s reported everywhere from the streets of New York to the Papal conclave in Rome and the London bombings of 2007 and has covered some of the biggest national stories from the Banking Inquiry to the vindication of Garda Whistleblower, Maurice McCabe and the Charleton Tribunal.

In this episode we discuss:

• why she swapped mathematics for the newsroom;
• how the public perception of politics has changed; and 
• she tells me about the story she covered during her time in New York that would later be recounted on television in the popular legal drama “The Good Wife”.

She also offers plenty of advice for young aspiring journalists. I hope you enjoy the episode.

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