Kearney was born in Dublin, and brought up in an academic environment: her father, the historian Hugh Kearney, taught first at Sussex and later at Edinburgh universities.
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Eastside Educational Trust's celebrity patrons include but are not limited to: Denys Baptiste, Quentin Blake, Samantha Bond, Patti Boulaye, Katie Derham, Jenny Eclair, Frederick Forsyth, Henry Goodman, Richard E Grant, David Harewood, Anish Kapoor, Martha Kearney, Soweto Kinch, Mark Lawson, Adrian Lester, Sharman Macdonald, Curtis Walker, Zoë Wanamaker, Sir Arnold Wesker, Samuel West and Gary Wilmot.
Many reporters and producers have spent some time working on the programme including Sue MacGregor, Kirsty Wark, Charlie Lee-Potter, Ted Harrison, Jonathan Dimbleby, Roger Cook, George Alagiah, Jenny Abramsky, Roger Hearing, Sian Williams, Peter Biles, Kirsty Lang, Martin Fewell, Shelagh Fogarty, David Jessel, Nick Ross, Ben Bradshaw, Juliet Bremner, Susannah Simons, Pallab Ghosh and Martha Kearney.