{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Short description|Irish journalist and broadcaster}} {{distinguish|text = the footballer Gavin Reilly}} {{Infobox person | name = Gavan Reilly | image = Gavan Reilly, 2023 (cropped).jpg | caption = Reilly in 2023 | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|20|2007|10|noage=1}} | birth_place = Rathmolyon, County Meath, Ireland | alma_mater = University College Dublin | <!-- etc. --> | module = {{Infobox writer | embed=yes | genre = | occupation = Journalist }} }}
'''Gavan Reilly''' (born {{birth based on age as of date|20|2007|10|noage=1}})<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gavreilly.com/about/ | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071017221525/http://gavreilly.com/about/ | archivedate = 17 October 2007 |title=About me |last=Reilly |first=Gavan |date=October 2007 |website= gavreilly.com |access-date=9 February 2023 }}</ref> is an Irish journalist working for Newstalk and Virgin Media One. He previously worked at Today FM and TheJournal.ie.
== Early life == Reilly is from Rathmolyon in County Meath attending Kill national school. He is one of two siblings. He is life long fan of Premier League team Manchester United and the Meath GAA. <ref name="Examiner 2022"/><ref name="MC 2017">{{cite news |last=Donohoe |first=John |date=3 August 2017 |title=Gavan Reilly named TV3 political correspondent |url=https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2017/08/03/gavan-reilly-named-tv3-political-correspondent/ |work=Meath Chronicle |location= |access-date=9 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Phoenix Young Blood 2020">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=13 February 2020 |title=Young Blood: Gavan Reilly |url=https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/young-blood-gavan-reilly/ |work=The Phoenix |location= |access-date=9 February 2023}}</ref> From to 2004 until 2009, Reilly studied at University College Dublin. While there, he was a contributor to ''The University Observer'', a student-run newspaper, as well as Belfield FM, a student-run radio station.<ref name="MC 2017"/><ref name="Phoenix Young Blood 2020"/>
==Career== In 2010, Reilly became a staff writer at the news website TheJournal.ie.<ref name="MC 2017"/> In 2011 Reilly created Agenda.ie, a website dedicated to covering the schedule and news of Dáil Éireann.<ref name="MC 2017"/> In July 2013, Reilly became Today FM's political correspondent.<ref name="MC 2017"/><ref name="Phoenix Young Blood 2020"/> In September 2017 Reilly became the political correspondent for TV3 (which became Virgin Media One in 2018).<ref name="Examiner 2022">{{cite news |last=Glennon |first=Nicole |date=24 April 2022 |title=Gavan Reilly: I often don’t take myself seriously enough |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-40854305.html |work=Irish Examiner |location= |access-date=9 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=O'Carroll |first=Sinead |date=1 August 2017 |title=Gavan Reilly named as TV3's new political correspondent |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/gav-reilly-tv3-political-correspondent-3524695-Aug2017/ |work=TheJournal.ie |location= |access-date=9 February 2023}}</ref> In March 2019, while retaining his role at VM1, Reilly began presenting a Sunday morning political news programme on Newstalk.<ref name="Phoenix Young Blood 2020"/> In May 2019, Reilly published ''Enda the Road: Nine Days that Toppled a Taoiseach'', a book on the end of Enda Kenny's time as Taoiseach.<ref name="Phoenix Young Blood 2020"/>
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