Audrey Carville

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Audrey Carville (born 9 September 1972 in County Monaghan, Castleblayney, Ireland) is an Irish journalist. She is one of the presenters of Morning Ireland, a breakfast news programme on RTÉ Radio One. She previously presented the current affairs programme The Late Debate on the same station.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/claire-byrne-to-host-new-radio-show-on-rte-597651-Sep2012/|title=Claire Byrne to host new radio show on RTÉ|first=Sinead|last=O'Carroll|date=16 September 2012|website=TheJournal.ie}}

From 2004 to 2009, she presented the BBC World Service radio programme Europe Today. She also presented Newshour on the BBC World Service. The Irish Times described her as having a "mellifluous voice and unflappable air."{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland-s-voice-in-europe-moves-back-to-pastures-green-1.732339|title=Ireland's voice in Europe moves back to pastures green|first=Derek|last=Scally|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=26 Feb 2019}}

Carville is a native of Castleblayney in County Monaghan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20257149.html|title=This much I know: Audrey Carville|first=Hilary|last=Fennell|date=2 February 2014|website=Irish Examiner}} Her father was Arthur Carville, who served as a Fine Gael party councillor on Monaghan County Council.{{Cite web|url=https://rip.ie/death-notice/arthur-carville-monaghan-castleblayney-209708|title=Death Notice of Arthur Carville (Castleblayney, Monaghan) | rip.ie|website=rip.ie}}Death of Arthur Carville - father of colleague Audrey Carville (The Late Debate, R.T.É. Radio One). http://www.superannrte.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4104:death-of-arthur-carville-father-of-colleague-audrey-carville-radio&catid=18&Itemid=103 Her brother, Gary Carville, also formerly served as a Fine Gael councillor on Monaghan County Council,{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/safer-type-of-swedish-roads-to-be-used-for-monaghan-motorways-1.1160413|title = Safer type of Swedish roads to be used for Monaghan motorways| newspaper=The Irish Times }} serving as Chairman of that council from 2007 to 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/gary.carville.54|title=Gary Carville|website=Facebook }}

Previously{{when|date=May 2022}} Carville worked for BBC Radio Ulster in Northern Ireland,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/europetoday/news/story/2005/02/050223_audrey.shtml|title=BBC World Service | Programmes | Europe Today | Audrey Carville|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} and prior to that{{when|date=May 2022}} worked for independent local radio stations such as Highland Radio and Northern Sound.{{Cite web|url=https://www.donegallive.ie/news/east-donegal/1030893/like-father-like-daughter-jade-mcclafferty-follows-in-her-dad-enda-s-footsteps.html|title=Like father, like daughter: Jade McClafferty follows in her dad Enda's footsteps|first=Alan|last=Foley|website=www.donegallive.ie|date=7 February 2023 }}

She was named Radio News Broadcaster of the Year in the Institute of Public Relations/BT Awards in 2004.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbcs-risk-taker-is-journalist-of-year/|title=BBC's 'risk-taker' is Journalist of Year|publisher=Press Gazette|date= 15 April 2004|access-date=26 February 2019}}

She also won a Celtic Film and Television Award.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=3174&tpl=archnews&force=1|title=Celtic Film and Television Festival, Truro | The Irish Film & Television Network|website=www.iftn.ie}} She was part of a Sony Award-winning team for current affairs journalism in 2002.

In February 2018, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld an objection to Carville's description, on the Morning Ireland programme, of journalist Kevin Myers as a Holocaust denier. The broadcaster, RTÉ, also lost a defamation lawsuit by Myers in 2019 as a result of Carville's accusation.[https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fk-the-lynch-mob-kevin-myers-splashes-out-to-celebrate-rte-libel-win-41604467.html ‘F**k the lynch mob’ – Kevin Myers splashes out to celebrate RTÉ libel win] Sunday Independent, 2022-05-01.{{cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0206/938744-broadcasting-bai/ |title=Complaint against George Hook programme upheld by BAI|date=6 February 2018 |work=RTÉ.ie |access-date=7 February 2018}}; {{cite web |url=https://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/2018/02/bai-decisions.pdf#page=29 |format=PDF |title=83/17: Mr. Karl Martin: RTÉ Radio 1: Morning Ireland: 31st July 2017 |date=February 2018 |work=Broadcasting Complaint Decisions |publisher=Broadcasting Authority of Ireland |pages=26–30 : 29 |access-date=7 February 2018}}

Carville is married to fellow Morning Ireland presenter Gavin Jennings.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/rte-and-newstalk-radio-hosts-work-from-home-during-coronavirus-emergency-js8q2wqv7|title=RTE and Newstalk radio hosts work from home during coronavirus emergency|first=Justine|last=McCarthy|date=18 July 2023|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-40020857.html|title=On the double: High-profile people who juggle work with children|first=Rowena|last=Walsh|date=24 July 2020|website=Irish Examiner}}