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Bracken, Ursula

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Ursula joined RTÉ in 2007, working initially as a continuity announcer on RTÉ One. She later took on weather presenting duties.

Ursula worked as a secondary teacher for nine years before leaving the classroom to pursue a career in TV. She graduated from UCG Galway with a BA in French and English, an H Dip in Education and a Masters Degree in French. She returned to college ten years later to study Communications in NUI Maynooth.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ Weather

Collins, Peter

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Peter is an RTÉ sports presenter and former RTÉ 2FM DJ. He was a continuity announcer on RTÉ One for a year or so, from 1987 and into 1988.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ News

Fitzgerald, Kieran

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Kieran was a continuity announcer on RTÉ One during 1987 and 1988.

He is a former producer, reporter, and researcher with RTÉ, having worked on popular television and radio programmes, including The Late Late Show, Prime Time, and Liveline.

He was named News and Current Affairs Journalist of the Year in 1999, and is a former chair of the Dublin Broadcasting Branch of the National Union of Journalists.

He had served as head of communications and research for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission from 2007. In December 2011, he was appointed to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

He has a doctorate in governance from the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, and is a member of the executive committee of the British and Irish Ombudsman Association.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ

Woods, Laura

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Laura joined RTÉ in March 2000, working as an announcer on both RTÉ TV channels, although primarily on RTÉ Network 2. In autumn 2002, she started into a new presenting role on the newly launched youth strand ID Two on RTÉ Network 2. She later moved into a mainstream presenting role, fronting RTÉ One’s popular lottery game show, Winning Streak.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ

Stanbridge, Clair

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Clair joined RTÉ in 1979. She was a continuity announcer on RTÉ One in the early 1980s.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ

Buckley, Karina

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Karina joined the RTÉ TV announcing team in the late-1990s, working mainly on RTÉ One. She also presents weather forecasts on both RTÉ TV channels.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ Weather

Connolly, James

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

James joined the RTÉ Network 2 announcing team in 1998. He also popped up on RTÉ One on a regular basis. James left the announcing role in early 2003.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ

White, Eoin

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Eoin was a continuity announcer on RTÉ 2 in the early 1980s, before moving to RTÉ One. He remained in a TV announcing role until the late-1980s/early 1990s. He was also an actor.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ

Curran, Helen

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

(Formerly Helen Leonard; married in July 2005). Helen has a BA in Irish and Information Technology from UCD. During her university studies she also worked behind-the-scenes on various RTÉ shows including Don’t Feed the Gondolas, The Den and Podge and Rodge.

In 1997, she moved into a continuity announcer role on RTÉ Network 2, presenting many of her links in-vision. Her continuity links are now largely confined to RTÉ One.

In June 2003, Helen joined the station’s team of weather presenters.


Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ Weather

Rocca, Michelle

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Michelle was an RTÉ 2 announcer (1987 – 1988). She also co-presented the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest from Dublin, with Pat Kenny.

Before joining RTÉ in 1987, Michelle had a successful modelling career. She was named Miss Ireland in 1980 and was a finalist in the Miss International 1981 pageant.

Rocca attended University College Dublin, where she studied Greek and Roman Civilization and Italian and French Archaeology. She is fluent in several languages.

Michelle is now a psychology and motivational teacher.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ, Presenters: RTÉ

Craddock, Gemma

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Gemma joined RTÉ as a TV announcer in 2007. She worked mainly on RTÉ One.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ

Wilson, Gerry

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Gerry is a former RTÉ 2FM DJ. In 1994, he also took on an announcing role for RTÉ One and RTÉ Network 2. He also voiced promotional trails for the TV channels. Gerry gave up the TV announcing post in 1997. In June 2001, Gerry left RTÉ to go full-time with his voiceover business. Over the years, clients have included: Intel, Microsoft, The Times Newspaper UK, Polygram, EMI, Universal Music, Virgin Music, BBC, LiveIreland.Com, The National Lottery, City Jet, The Mirror, Falcon Holidays, Wrangler, Heinz, Aer Lingus, Esat, The Economist, British Midland, Skoda, CMS, Gaiety Theatre and Blockbuster.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: RTÉ

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