Paul Byrne (journalist)

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Paul Byrne (b. Kilkenny, May 9, 1978) is an Irish Broadcast Journalist. [1]
He currently works for the international television news channel, Russia Today.

Paul graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies, from the Cork Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he was selected as one of Irelands top 50 Business Graduates in 2000 as a chosen candidate for IBEC's (Irish Business and Employers Confederation) European Orientation Programme [2] . He worked for 6 years for a Belgian based documentary production company, [3] producing business documentaries for broadcast on CNBC and Fox 5.
He then went on to do his masters in Broadcast Journalism in the University of Sheffield in 2006. Having worked for BBC as a video-journalist he then took up a position with Russia Today based out of Moscow in November 2006.

Paul also holds a third dan black belt in Karate and represented Ireland on numerous occasions.