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Kate Adie

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  • 07-05-2013 10:24am
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    Waterford Blaa
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    Journalist Kate Adie is in Waterford today where she will be presented with a certificate of Irish Heritage - her father was a Waterford man.

    She'll be on the Pat Kenny Radio Show at 11am today (Tuesday) to talk about it.


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    donaloflynn
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    What more do we know about this, when is she being presented with the award etc?


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    mike65
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    She on the radio now

    www.rte.ie/radio1

    Her dad is a Deise man and she is from Sunderland so John O'Shea linkage!


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    donaloflynn
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    From Damien Tiernan on Twitter.
    Kate Adie is in WFD. Being presented with cert of Irish Heritage at 3.30 in WFD Castle. Great story about her search for her family here.


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    deisemum
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    She's one very brave woman.


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    mike65
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    She said she was "first under the table" when the shooting starts! :) Which is why she's still alive. Probably a bit of modesty mixed with the truth.


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    donaloflynn
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    I got the audiobook of her autobiography (nice to hear her read it!) and it's full of funny stories like a piano stuck in the mud and not understanding why there was a cameraman accompanying her on a report. Not considering herself to be brave is a running theme. She wrote another book called "Into Danger" interviewing people who are very brave indeed!


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    Smiley Burnett
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    a great journalist and a very nice lady!!


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    deisemum
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    donaloflynn wrote: »
    I got the audiobook of her autobiography (nice to hear her read it!) and it's full of funny stories like a piano stuck in the mud and not understanding why there was a cameraman accompanying her on a report. Not considering herself to be brave is a running theme. She wrote another book called "Into Danger" interviewing people who are very brave indeed!

    Her description of going to the loo in the middle of the night in the desert during the war and all the soldiers wearing night vision goggles watching her was funny.


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