Caitriona Perry is an award winning Irish journalist. She has worked as a broadcast news correspondent since 2000, including four years as RTE's Washington correspondent. Following her time there, she was described in the official record of the US Congress as having 'done meaningful work to shed a spotlight on modern US-Ireland relations.... and informed audiences in both America and Ireland'. She currently anchors RTE's flagship television news
programme Six One. Her first book, In America: Tales from Trump Country,
was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.