Grainne Seoige
| Gráinne Seoige | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 November 1973 An Spidéal, County Galway, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
| Agent | Noel Kelly |
| Notable credit(s) |
Seoige People of the Year Awards The All Ireland Talent Show Up for the Match Put 'Em Under Pressure Daybreak |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Cullinane (m. 2002; div. 2010) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Síle Seoige (sister) |
| Website | http://www.grainneseoige.co.uk |
Gráinne Seoige (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɡɾˠaːnʲə ˈʃoːɟə], born 5 November 1973) is an Irish journalist, news anchor and documentary and entertainment television presenter.
She is the only television personality to have worked with all four Republic of Ireland television stations: TG4, TV3, RTÉ One and RTÉ2. Seoige made broadcast history by reading the inaugural news bulletin on Tnag (now TG4), TV3, and Sky News Ireland; and she is the only news anchor to have presented the inaugural news bulletins on two Irish terrestrial stations, TV3 and TG4.
She joined RTÉ in 2006 where she co-presented afternoon chat show Seoige for three years alongside her sister Síle. Other high-profile roles for the broadcaster have included presenting The All Ireland Talent Show, co-presenting Up for the Match, hosting the People of the Year Awards, documentary series Gráinne Seoige's Modern Life, and Great Irish Journeys which looked at Ireland during the Famine in 1849.
She worked on ITV's breakfast show GMTV reporting and presenting and was Features Editor on its successor Daybreak in 2010–11. She has presented three British breakfast television shows, i.e. Sky News Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes, GMTV and Daybreak.
Seoige presented the Irish votes at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 and was one of the presenters on the BBC1 show That's Britain in 2012.
Educated at Mercy Convent in her native Spiddal, she graduated with honours in English, Sociology and Political Science from University College Galway before completing a Higher Diploma in Applied Communications for Television and Radio through Irish, also at University College Galway (now known as NUI Galway).
Seoige began her career on Halloween, 31 October 1996, with the launch of Teilifís na Gaeilge (now TG4) anchoring the 10pm news bulletin with Gillian Ní Cheallaigh. She stayed there until 1998, when she was asked to be launch anchor with independent broadcaster TV3 and presented TV3's 5:30pm News (also known as First Edition) and 6:30pm News with Alan Cantwell. Seoige also hosted News Tonight, as well as producing, writing and presenting news updates throughout the day. She also presented occasionally, Ireland's only breakfast programme, TV3's breakfast show Ireland AM. Seoige was on air when the 9/11 terror attack happened and anchored over 7 hours of live news coverage alone that day.
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