Brenda Donohue

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Brenda Donohue
Nationality Irish
Employer Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)

Brenda Donohue (born c. 1966) is an Irish radio and television presenter.

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Personal life

Donohue is one of five children born to Mary and Michael Donohue in Newbridge, County Kildare. [1] She is a graduate of University College Dublin, where she studied history and economics. She is married with three children: Ali, Robyn and Harvey.

Career

Donohue came to the notice of an RTÉ producer during a live broadcast on the University College Dublin campus in the late 1980s. She was asked to join the newly launched The Gerry Ryan Show , RTÉ 2fm's mid-morning talk show. [2] Donohue served as the show's roving reporter for eighteen years. Following Gerry Ryan's death in 2010, Donohue joined Mooney , where she worked as a reporter and sometimes hosted the programme itself. Donohue now works on the Marty Squad with Marty Morrissey and on Countrywide on Radio One.

From 2016, she has hosted a series on RTÉ Radio 1 called Like Family, a human interest series which looks at social change in Ireland in recent years. [3] [4] Donohue has previously presented other series on the station, including The B Side, The Health Show, Café Live and Going Home.

Despite her long career with RTÉ Radio, Donohue has critiqued the dominance of male presenters with the state broadcaster. [5]

Though she has primarily worked in radio, Donohue has also presented a number of TV shows including The Selection Box, Get Flirting and The House of Love and is a regular contributor to The Afternoon Show . Donohue also featured in the reality TV show Celebrity Bainisteoir as the Bainisteoir for Kilcullen in 2012 and also featured in Celebrity Operation Transformation in September 2016.

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References

  1. ↑ "Brenda Donohue and her Marvellous Mum!". RTÉ.ie . Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Smith, Andrea (28 August 2013). "'I'd love my own show - that would definitely be a goal". Herald.ie . Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Brenda Donohue's Like Family". RTÉ. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Duggan, Catherine (26 March 2023). "Lessons from Logan Roy and Succession for family businesses". RTÉ.ie .
  5. ↑ McGown, Sharon (6 July 2016). "RTE star Brenda Donohue admits she's 'baffled' why women still play second fiddle in broadcasting". The Irish Mirror . Retrieved 19 July 2016.
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