Donie O'Sullivan: 'I forked out $700 for my Emmy Award statue the other day'

Conspiracies, conservatives and the art of live TV. Emmy-winning CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan on the journey from Caherciveen to Capitol Hill

Donie O'Sullivan. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

When the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that Donie O’Sullivan had won an Emmy Award for outstanding news coverage, they neglected to mention one small detail.

“It was nice,” the world’s most famous Kerryman says down the Zoom line from his New York pad. “They make you pay for the statue, though.”