ENNIS woman Fiona Stack has been announced as the CEO of the Radio Kerry Group.
Currently General Manager of Radio Kerry, Fiona’s new role as CEO will see her responsible for Radio Kerry, Shannonside and Northern Sound radio stations.
She has been General Manager of Radio Kerry since 2005. Fiona was initially among the team of reporters which joined the successful commercial radio station during its early days in the 1990s as she started out her career in media.
In 1994, she was appointed ‘Head of News’ at the station. Her professionalism and sense of fairness has regularly been commented upon by those that have worked closely with her and in 1998 a further promotion followed when she became Assistant Programme Controller, second in command to then station manager Paul Sheehan.
A Public Relations graduate from the University of Limerick, Fiona left Radio Kerry in November 2000 to become a Community Relations Specialist with Intel.
From here, she moved to Newstalk as Station Editor, holding the post for three years, during which Newstalk was named Radio Station of the Year at the PPI Radio Awards in 2004.
Radio Kerry welcomed her return as General Manager in 2005 and over the past two decades, the station has been named Local Radio Station of the Year on five occasions.
Her contribution to the industry was acknowledged in 2012 when she received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the PPI Radio Awards, these have since been renamed as the IMRO Awards.
Stack is a Board member and former Chairperson of Learning Waves a training body for the radio sector, and a Board Member of Nurture Entrepreneurs a non-profit company established by Kerry businessman Jerry Kennelly to run Entrepreneurship Programmes in schools throughout Ireland.
