Paul Reynolds is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 journalist. He has been on the main RTÉ News and Current Affairs programmes, in both television

RTÉ Television

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 and radio

RTÉ Radio

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, almost daily for over a decade.

Paul Reynolds joined RTÉ in 1991 at the same time as Mark Little

Mark Little (Irish journalist)

Mark Little is an Irish journalist, television presenter, author and "social media visionary". He presented Prime Time for RTÉ until December 2009. He took a year of leave of absence from RTÉ to pursue a project centred around digital media and global journalism...

, Rachael English

Rachael English

Rachael English is an award-winning Irish journalist and broadcaster. She is known for presenting Five Seven Live for six years. English has also presented other radio shows, such as RTÉ News at One,Today with Pat Kenny, The Marian Finucane Show and The Late Debate as well as a permanent presenter...

 and Sean Whelan

Sean Whelan

Sean Whelan is an Irish journalist. He is a former Europe Editor for RTÉ News and Current Affairs. He is currently Economics Correspondent with RTÉ.He graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in History and Politics...

. He is currently the RTÉ Crime Correspondent.

In June 2009, he won the Political and Current Affairs Journalist of The Year from Irish National Media Awards. In June 2011 he was subject to criticism from Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence Alan Shatter

Alan Shatter

Alan Joseph Shatter is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South constituency and has been the Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence since March 2011.-Background and early life:...

, who stated, "Reynolds has great difficulty in accurately reporting" and he "consistently engages in tabloid sensationalism". RTÉ responded to this claim by saying that his work and his "record stands for itself".