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{{short description|Irish Newsreader}}
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| image = UnaOHagan-1Web.jpg
| birth_date = 1962
| birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[County Dublin]] [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
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| alma_mater = [[Dublin Institute of Technology]]
| occupation = {{Hlist|[[Journalist]]|[[News presenter|newsreader]]}}
| employer = [[
| credits = [[RTÉ News]]
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| spouse = [[Colm Keane]] (until his death, 2022)
| children = 1 son (deceased)
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'''Una O'Hagan''' (born 1962) is an Irish author, journalist and former newsreader with [[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]] (RTÉ),<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/legendary-anchor-una-ohagan-announces-shes-leaving-rte-news-36564541.html | title=Legendary anchor Una O'Hagan announces she's leaving RTE News | date=4 February 2018 | publisher=independent.ie | first=Niamh | last=Horan | access-date=21 December 2019 }}</ref> Ireland's national radio and television station. She presented the main television news programmes [[Six One News]], [[RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock|Nine O'Clock News]] and [[RTÉ News: One O'Clock|One O'Clock News]] including all other news bulletins on both radio and television. For nine years, from 1996 to 2005, she co-presented the station's flagship news programme [[Six One News]] with [[Bryan Dobson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/rtes-six-one-newsreaders-down-2335420| title=RTE's Six One newsreaders down the years - Irish Mirror Online}} </ref> Una presented her last news bulletin on Sunday 25 February 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/highlights/|title=Radio 1 Highlights|website=www.rte.ie}}</ref>▼
▲'''Una O'Hagan''' (born 1962) is an Irish author, journalist and former newsreader with [[
Una was born in [[Dublin]] in 1962 and attended Dominican College, [[Eccles Street]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dominicancollegeppu.ie/GalleryEcclesSt_15.html|title=Dominican College PPU|website=www.dominicancollegeppu.ie}}</ref> She studied journalism at the [[Dublin Institute of Technology]], graduating in 1982.<ref>RTÉ Guide, Power's Court, 22 July 2005, pg 17</ref> The following year, 1983, she joined RTÉ, where she worked as a newsreader on [[RTÉ Radio 2]].<ref>Ireland on Sunday, 60 second interview, 15 December 2003, pg 34</ref> In early 1986, she became a member of RTÉ's news reporting staff.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0429/612460-stolen-beit-paintings-unveiled-at-national-gallery/|title=Stolen Beit Paintings Unveiled at National Gallery|website=[[RTÉ.ie]]}}</ref>▼
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In 1990, in [[Zambia]], she met and interviewed [[Nelson Mandela]], who had been released from captivity on [[Robben Island]] just two weeks earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.superannrte.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3981:nelson-mandela-rte-visit&catid=8&Itemid=115|title=Nelson Mandela...RTÉ Visit in 1992..|website=www.superannrte.ie}}</ref> In 1992, she accompanied Ireland's first woman president, [[Mary Robinson]], on a state visit to [[Australia]], having already covered her election as [[President of Ireland]] (Uachtaráin na hÉireann) in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117041115/http://irishpost.co.uk/twenty-five-facts-about-irelands-first-female-president-mary-robinson/ |url=http://irishpost.co.uk/twenty-five-facts-about-irelands-first-female-president-mary-robinson/}}</ref>▼
▲In 1990, in [[Zambia]], she met and interviewed [[Nelson Mandela]], who had been released from captivity on [[Robben Island]] just two weeks earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.superannrte.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3981:nelson-mandela-rte-visit&catid=8&Itemid=115|title=Nelson Mandela...RTÉ Visit in 1992..|website=www.superannrte.ie}}</ref> In 1992, she accompanied Ireland's first woman president, [[Mary Robinson]], on a state visit to [[Australia]], having already covered her election as [[President of Ireland]] (Uachtaráin na hÉireann) in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117041115/http://irishpost.co.uk/twenty-five-facts-about-irelands-first-female-president-mary-robinson/ |url=http://irishpost.co.uk/twenty-five-facts-about-irelands-first-female-president-mary-robinson/ |title=Twenty five facts about Ireland's first female President Mary Robinson |date=November 9, 2015 |first=Katy |last=Harrington |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |work=[[Irish Post]]}}</ref>
As a newscaster, she hosted live programmes on the deaths of former [[Taoiseach]] [[Jack Lynch]] in 1999<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/1999/1020/3857-lynch |title=Former Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, dies aged 82|website=[[RTÉ.ie]] |date=20 October 1999}}</ref> and [[Garret FitzGerald]] in 2011, the visit of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] to Ireland in 2011,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irelands-loss-is-tv3s-gain-as-rte-arrives-late-26735441.html|title=Ireland's loss is TV3's gain as RTE arrives late|website=[[Independent.ie]]}}</ref> and the [[2012 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/us-election-tv-coverage-663410-Nov2012/|title=TV guide: the US Presidential Election on the box |first=Sinead|last=O'Carroll|website=[[TheJournal.ie]]}}</ref>
She is married to author and former RTÉ broadcaster, [[Colm Keane]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colmkeane.com/|title=COLM KEANE - bestselling author on saints and near-death experience|website=Colm Keane}}</ref> They lost their only son Seán to cancer in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/rtes-una-still-cant-speak-of-sons-death-29833081.html|title=RTE's Una 'still can't speak of son's death'|website=independent}}</ref> They have written four books together: the No.1 bestseller ''The Little Flower, St. Thérèse of Lisieux: The Irish Connection'', published in September 2018,<ref>https://www.writing.ie/news/irish-bestseller-lists/irish-bestsellers-29th-september-2018</ref><ref>https://www.colmkeane.com/book/little-flower-irish-connection/</ref> and the bestselling book ''Animal Crackers: Irish Pet Stories'', published in June 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colmkeane.com/animal-crackers/|title=Colm Keane - Animal Crackers Irish Pet Stories}}</ref> Their most recent co-written books are ''The Village of Bernadette: Lourdes, Stories, Miracles and Cures - The Irish Connection'', published in September 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.knockshrine.ie/book-signing-with-authors-colm-keane-una-ohagan/|title=A Day with Colm Keane & Una O'Hagan |date=26 September 2019}}</ref> and ''The Book of St. Brigid'', published in September 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-original-feminist-role-model-bringing-brigid-out-of-st-patrick-s-shadow-1.4667513 |title=The original feminist role model: Bringing Brigid out of St Patrick’s shadow|first=Deirdre|last=Falvey|website=[[The Irish Times]]}}</ref>▼
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