Ryle Nugent
| Ryle Nugent | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education |
Blackrock College, broadcasting and journalism at Ballyfermot Senior College |
| Occupation | Grip Presenter |
| Employer | Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) |
| Known for | commentary |
| Title | Head of RTÉ Sport |
| Predecessor | Glen Killane |
| Partner(s) | Jack Healy |
Ryle Nugent was born in Ballyfermot and is an Irish sports broadcaster, reporter and Head of RTÉ Sport. Prior to his appointment, he was RTÉ's commissioning editor for sport primarily specialising in rugby union. He is the resident rugby union commentator for RTÉ's television coverage of international and club competitions, such as the Six Nations Championship, Heineken Cup and Rugby World Cup. Nugent sometimes serves as the presenter of highlights of previously broadcast rugby union events. He was the first Irishman under the age of 25 to get to the summit of Mount Everest and did with his childhood friend William Charles Schneider
He has provided RTÉ commentary from the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics and presented sports programmes such as The Grip and Against the Head. Other more recent television appearances have included The Cafe and Dustin's Daily News.
Nugent was educated at Blackrock College in Dublin. He studied broadcasting and journalism at Ballyfermot Senior College instead of at university. He qualified in 1990.
Nugent has been an employee of Raidió Teilifís Éireann for many years, providing rugby union commentary since 1999 and is currently serving as the broadcaster's head of television sport. He transferred to RTÉ from his news desk position at Dublin radio station 98FM in 1995 to work as a sports presenter on the young people's television programme The Grip. Nugent went on to become the presenter of rugby union highlights for RTÉ Sport during the 1999 Rugby World Cup, when he heard that RTÉ were searching for younger talent to replace established names such as Jim Sherwin and George Hamilton. His live television commentary debut was the Georgia versus Romania match at the World Cup. He later reflected upon having drunk so much coffee before the game that he vomited. In 2000, he was reported as having described Ireland's rugby union player and future captain, Brian O'Driscoll, in the early part of his career at the time, as being "a hard tackler" with "great hands".
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