Órla Ryan is an award-winning journalist based in Dublin.
Órla Ryan has worked as a journalist in Ireland for over a decade, focusing on social justice, health and current affairs. During her time as a news correspondent at The Journal she presented and co-produced Redacted Lives, a six-part documentary podcast that explores the experiences of people who spent time in mother and baby institutions. The series won several awards including the prestigious Mary Raftery Prize.
She is one of the first Irish fellows to take part in the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. The series she wrote during her fellowship year, Falling Through the Cracks, highlights how a lack of access to vital services is impacting the lives of young people who experience psychosis or schizophrenia.
She was previously awarded the Irish Red Cross Journalism Excellence Award for "a diverse body of work highlighting humanitarian topics from all over the world". She recently started a new role at The Irish Times.
