Donna Traynor

Donna Traynor (born 1965 or 1966) is a journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland. She gained recognition as the former main anchor of BBC Newsline. Traynor was born in Lisburn and later moved to Dublin with her family. She received her education at Loreto Convent in Bray and studied journalism at NIHE (now Dublin City University) and in Preston, Lancashire. Traynor started her broadcasting career at RTÉ in Dublin and joined the BBC in 1989. She presented news bulletins on BBC Radio Ulster and made her transition to television news bulletins around the time of the Provisional IRA ceasefire in 1994. Traynor has received two nominations for the Presenter of the Year category at the Royal Television Society awards.