Ward obtained a
Bachelor of Arts in International Marketing and Languages from
Dublin City University in 1985.
RTÉ She joined
RTÉ News and Current Affairs in 1994. Ward has also made two documentaries for RTÉ. One programme was on
Ireland and World War I and another on the
Rwandan genocide. In China, she also covered the
2008 Sichuan earthquake. After in budget cuts, the bureau was closed in 2009, giving RTÉ a saving of . == References ==