Charlie Bird is one of Ireland's most prominent journalists. For years he travelled extensively as RTÉ's Chief News Correspondent, visiting sites of armed conflict, political intrigue and natural disaster around the world. He resigned from that post in 2009 to assume the role of Washington Correspondent, which he held until the following year. He retired from RTÉ in 2012. He has also made a number of acclaimed travel documentaries, collected as 'Charlie Bird Explores',in which he spent time living with the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the Ganges and the Amazon river basin.
