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Gavan Reilly announces surprise departure from Newstalk

On The Record host presented his last show on Sunday, citing a desire to spend more time with his young family

Gavan Reilly: “It's been an enormous honour to share so many Sundays with you... I’ll always treasure the chance to have done so”

Gavan Reilly, the host of Newstalk’s midday current affairs programme On the Record, has presented his final programme with the station.

The broadcaster, who is also a political correspondent with Virgin Media and co-hosts Virgin Media News podcast The Group Chat, unexpectedly announced his departure from Newstalk on Sunday, citing a desire to spend more time with his young family.

Reilly first presented the show, which runs from 11am - 1pm, in 2019. He described ...