David McCullagh is a journalist with RTÉ. After 12 years as Political Correspondent, he became a presenter on Prime Time in 2013. In 2020, he became the co-host of RTE’s flagship Six One News programme, He is the author of A Makeshift Majority: A history of the First InterParty Government and The Reluctant Taoiseach: A biography of John A. Costello. The first part of his acclaimed assessment of the life of Éamon de Valera, De Valera, Volume I: Rise, 1882-1932  was published in 2017; De Valera, Volume II: Rule, 1932-1975 was published in 2018.  His most recent book is The Great Irish Politics Book, a guide to politics for younger readers, which was published in 2021.