Sarah Carey

Sarah Carey is an Irish columnist, broadcaster and communications consultant. She writes for the Irish Independent. From March 2011 until August 2017 she presented Talking Point on Newstalk. She is a former columnist for The Sunday Times,The Herald and The Irish Times. Education and Career Carey has a degree in history from Trinity College Dublin, and a post-graduate diploma in Business Studies from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in University College, Dublin (U.C.D.). She has worked as a communications consultant for many companies, particularly in public affairs and infrastructure. Carey is also a professional chair and facilitator of conferences and workshops. She worked for Esat Digifone. and has also worked in the technology industry including Cape Clear and search engine Cuil. Carey was appointed by the Department of the Environment to the Appeals Board of the Register of Architects and Chartered Surveyors, serving two terms from 2013 to 2019. Blog and early writing In 2002 she began writing the blog GUBU, "An Irish woman's social, political and domestic commentary". Then, after reading the blog, Sunday Times Irish Editor Fiona McHugh offered Carey a column. The Sunday Times column ended when she started writing a weekly opinion column for The Irish Times in 2008. The blog also ended in 2008. Carey revealed that in her time at The Sunday Times, opinion columnists had been forbidden from expressing views in favour of the Lisbon Treaty. Moriarty Tribunal