Mr. \u00d3 Ciardha, who has been a senior executive with the channel throughout its existence, is the longest serving staff member and has been Leascheannasa\u00ed TG4 for the past 18 years. He is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the service. Immediately before its inception, he had served as fulltime Advisor on Irish Language Broadcasting to both M\u00e1ire Geoghegan-Quinn and her successor Michael D Higgins, the two Ministers acknowledged as bringing the Teilif\u00eds na Gaeilge project from policy aspiration to fruition.<\/p>\n
Mr. \u00d3 Ciardha’s responsibilities in TG4 have covered a wide range of communications, corporate affairs and governance, public relations and key influencing roles. He also served as Secretary to the TG4 Board and represented the organisation on many sectoral bodies and federations at both national and international levels. He is also the creator of the channel’s acclaimed motto s\u00fail eile<\/em>.<\/p>\n Before joining TG4 in 1994, he had worked in broadcast journalism, establishing the Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta Dublin bureau, as a member of the founding team for RT\u00c9 Radio News Morning Ireland<\/em> and as Editor of Nuacht RT\u00c9<\/em>. He had earlier worked in academics as a Scholar in the School of Celtic Studies at DIAS and lecturer in Maynooth University.<\/p>\n TG4 Director General, Alan Esslemont<\/strong>, paid tribute to Mr. \u00d3 Ciardha’s long and distinguished service in the establishment and development of TnaG \/TG4: Mr. \u00d3 Ciardha, who has been a senior executive with the channel throughout its existence, is the longest serving staff member and has been Leascheannasa\u00ed TG4 for the past 18 years. He is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the service. Immediately before its inception, he had served as fulltime Advisor on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":69772,"parent":40344,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pr.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u201cP\u00e1dhraic\u2019s long and distinguished career is inextricably linked to the birth and development of Teilif\u00eds na Gaeilge. As the government\u2019s Advisor on Irish Language Broadcasting, he formed the bridge between the longstanding national and community campaigns for an Irish language channel and the state apparatus which finally delivered Teilif\u00eds na Gaeilge. Together with Cathal Goan and Si\u00fan N\u00ed Raghallaigh, he developed the blueprint for TnaG. For twenty three years he has been the most visible public representative and voice of TG4. He also played a key role in the development of the genre of Irish language sports programming and his background as a journalist in English and Irish ensured that when our programmes touched on controversial subjects, it was always to P\u00e1dhraic that our editorial staff looked for advice. As TG4\u2019s representative on many national and international bodies, and as a trusted and congenial colleague he will be greatly missed by everyone connected to TG4 and leaves a gap in our team which will be very difficult to fill.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"