I am a researcher working mainly in television, documentary and factual drama. I worked for the national broadcaster in Ireland, RTÉ, from 1987-2000 and then as a freelance researcher. My main focus is on social justice. In 2012 an organisation to promote investigative journalism was established in Ireland to honour my long time colleague and close friend Mary Raftery who died in January 2012 (the Mary Raftery Journalism Fund - http://maryrafteryfund.ie/) Mary was an outstanding journalist whose work exposed many scandals and injustice in Ireland and internationally.
I am particularly interested in meeting up with journalists in Rio who have experience with similar funds and organisations promoting investigative journalism. We have had an extremely successful first year of the MRJF and are now looking to build on that success into the future.