Biography

Caitriona Perry

Synopsis

Caitriona Perry is a well-known and award-winning Irish Journalist. She worked as a broadcast news correspondent. Currently, she works as Washington correspondent for Ireland’s national public service broadcaster, RTE where she works across television, radio and digital platforms.

Early Life and Education

The skillful journalist was born in 1980 in Dublin, Ireland. He holds an Irish nationality and belongs to Caucasian ethnicity. She follows Christianity.

Perry attended  Dublin City University and completed his degree in Journalism in 2012. In 2010, she completed her Master's degree in International Relations.

Career

Perry started her career in Journalism and worked in television, radio, and digital platforms. Previously she worked as a news anchor, presenter, producer, doc u mentary maker and program editor. She worked as a broadcast news correspondent since 2000.

Currently, Perry is Washington Correspondent for Ireland’s national public service broadcaster. She has won numerous awards for radio reportage which includes a National Justice Media Merit Award for TV News. In addition to all this, she has also reported on news stories across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Australia.

Perry has reported worldwide and has won awards for her journalism career including National Justice Media Award, DCU Distinguished Alumni Award, National Justice Media Award and was the  PPI Silver National News Reporter of the year.

Personal Life

Perry is pretty uptight in sharing her personal details to the outer world. She is married but the details about her husband have not been revealed yet.

Controversies

Caitriona has relived the bizarre moment when President Donald Trump complimented her nice smile during a phone call with Ireland’s leader. Perry explained that when she went in the office, Trump was already on the phone but she caught his eye and he called her over. She was only the one in the room when Trump made the bizarre gesture.

Donald was on the phone with the first gay prime minister named Varadkar, to congratulate him on his recent election win and he remarked that he has a lot of people of Irish Press watching them and suddenly he called Perry and asked her name and address.

After that, he told the Irish leader that she had a beautiful smile on her face and added: “I bet she treats you well.” Other people of the press giggled at the president remarks and finally, the president delivered a message from the Irish prime minister and he smiled more when he talks with Perry.

Afterwards, Perry shared a video of their encounter on Twitter describing it as a bizarre and all those twitter users were quick to criticize the president’s remarks.

Net Worth and Body Measurement

The 37-years-old journalist net worth has not been officially revealed yet but as she has been involved in numerous news and programs her net worth is reported to be more than $1million.  She is 5 feet 5 inch tall and weighs 121 lbs. She has Grey colored eyes with Blonde colored hair.