Mac Coille started his career as editor of the
Irish language magazine,
Comhar. He then went on to get a
Bachelor of Arts in History from
University College Dublin. He first joined
RTÉ as a radio researcher in 1974, initially working at the
Nuacht desk for five years. He was a member of the RTÉ Northern Staff from 1978 to 1984 and from 1984 to 1986 presented
This Week and other news programmes. He worked as political correspondent with Irish language television channel,
TG4. He also worked as a journalist with the
Sunday Tribune newspaper for five years from 1990. Mac Coille is best known for presenting
Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, which is Ireland's most listened to radio programme and has been on air since 1984. He joined the Morning Ireland team in 1986, left the show in 1990 but returned again from 2001 until his retirement in 2017. and
Eoin Ryan Jnr, and breakfasted politically with
CNN broadcaster
Larry King on
Super Tuesday in February 2008. Mac Coille has also worked on
One to One, a television interview series broadcast on
RTÉ One. In radio he worked on the
Good Friday Agreement and the
2008 United States presidential election. Mac Coille was part of a crew of RTÉ employees who travelled to the United States to cover the
Super Tuesday election event, a move which was later criticised when the true cost emerged. ==Personal life==