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'''Doireann Ní Bhriain''' ({{IPA-ga|ˈdˠɛɾʲən̪ˠ n̠ʲiː ˈvʲɾʲiənʲ|pron}}; born 1952) is an Irish independent radio producer.<ref name="independent">{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioproducers.ie/members/doireann-ni-bhriain/ |title=Association of Independent Radio Producers profile |access-date=3 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615075249/http://www.radioproducers.ie/members/doireann-ni-bhriain/ |archive-date=15 June 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She began her career as a radio and television journalist,<ref name="journalist">[http://www.cmc.ie/articles/article737.html Irish Composers and the Media – former journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain as chair]</ref> and started out reading children's stories on television. From those beginnings, she went on to work for the Irish broadcaster [[RTÉ]] for over 20 years before moving on in 1993. She is best known for her work and affiliation with [[RTÉ Radio 1]].
She was a long-running reporter on the radio current affairs programme ''[[Women Today]]'',<ref>[http://radioeireann.blogspot.com/2006/11/women-today.html Description of Doireann Ní Bhriain's involvement with a Women Today debate]</ref><ref name="womentoday2">[http://bp3.blogger.com/_23zMGxTlTH4/RZQuvpUX3EI/AAAAAAAAAGE/eeLRHhIAYXc/s1600-h/WTB2.JPG 1981 photograph]</ref> for which she is well known. She was the presenter of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1981]], held in [[Dublin]].<ref>[http://nulpoints.150m.com/1981.htm Nul Points – Eurovision 1981] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707055923/http://nulpoints.150m.com/1981.htm |date=7 July 2011 }}</ref> In 1993, she won a [[Jacob's Award]] for her work on RTÉ Radio.<ref name="name3">''The Irish Times'', "Higgins warns of threat to service", 15 November 1993</ref>
== Early life ==
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