Tony Sheahan

User talk:Tony sheahan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bold text Tony Sheahan is a journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Sheahan currently works as a sports journalist for Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne. He is a regular contributor for Triple M radio during their live football broadcast's, and co-hosts a sports show on SEN Radio.

Sheahan started his media career on the Sports Today sports program back in 1999 under the tutelage of the late David Hookes and former VFL great Gerard Healy.

Anthony Mundine and his manager Khoder Nasser of Boxa Promotions poached Sheahan to join their burgeoning boxing and media circus. He worked closely alongside Nasser and continues to do so on many fronts to this day.

After 18 months with Boxa, Sheahan returned to the world of AFL and joined Foxtel's Fox Footy Channel in its second year. He continued to work with Mundine and Nasser and Fox in co production of their fight nights.

Three years later, Channel 7's news department came knocking and he joined the high rating news service. It was at 7 that Sheahan began to shine and hone his skills as a Sports Journalist in front of the camera. He became an integral part of the AFL genre, and carved a niche as a big breaking news hound. Nick Stevens' shock announcement his career was in jeopardy due to a severe neck injury, and former Channel 9 Chief Executive Eddie McGuire's public grilling of now Kangaroos CEO Eugene Arocca, were just 2 that propelled Sheahan to the top of the TV news tree. He was highly commended in 2007 for his year, but was controversially beaten by Channel 9's Craig Hutchison of the Footy Show.

Sheahan was no stranger to big news and in the early stages of 2008, he became the news. Network 7 in its wisdom or lack of it, dumped Sheahan for reporting Dennis Commetti's new role at 3AW.

Sheahan is now thriving in his new role at the Sunday Herald Sun, joining multi award winning father Mike Sheahan, as a newspaper journalist. His ability to break stories sets him apart. Tony sheahan (talk) 13:28, 3 May 2009 (UTC)