Laura Woods (Irish presenter)

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Laura Woods
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Occupation(s)Television presenter, Radio host
Years active1999-present
Employer(s)RTÉ Television, Virgin Media Television
TelevisioniD, The Cafe, Winning Streak, Fame and Fortune, The Trump Card, The Big Money Game, Ireland AM

Laura Woods (born May 12, 1977) is an Irish television presenter and radio host.

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Career

Whilst in her third year at Trinity, Woods began her broadcasting career by working as a continuity announcer on RTÉ Radio. In 1999, she presented the Breakfast Show on Trinity FM. She joined RTÉ Television as a continuity announcer in 2000.

Moving from continuity announcing in September 2002, Woods became the face of iD [1] (renamed iD Two in late 2004) and remained there until May 2005. In 2004 she began co-presenting three series of The Cafe with Aidan Power. Woods anchored RTÉ's coverage of the Festival of World Cultures in 2005 and 2006, and joined Dave Fanning in Hyde Park to cover Live8 in July 2005. In September 2005, she began hosting SMS, but left the show to concentrate on presenting the Irish National Lottery game show Winning Streak from January–March 2006 while regular presenter Derek Mooney was presenting You're a Star. [2]

Woods hosted another Irish National Lottery game show Fame and Fortune in June 2006, and went on to present the show's successors, The Trump Card from June–August 2007, and The Big Money Game from June–August 2008. [3] In 2007, she also began presenting an event guide on 2fm's The Will Leahy Show and made an appearance on the People in Need Telethon. She appeared as a participant on Anonymous [4] in the first half of 2008. [5]

Woods has since moved to independent station Virgin Media Television in 2011, where she was a panellist on the Midday programme, and she co-presented the breakfast show Ireland AM . [5] She was made redundant in 2021 after Ireland AM got new presenters. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Me and My Car/Laura Woods", Irish Independent. URL last accessed 2008-03-16.
  2. ↑ "Laura's winning streak with tv role" Irish Independent. URL last accessed 2008-03-16
  3. ↑ "Antonio comes up trumps on gameshow" Wicklow People. URL last accessed 2008-03-16
  4. ↑ "Anonymous" Anonymous website. URL last accessed 2007-03-16
  5. 1 2 Murphy, Catherine (16 October 2011). "Female TV Presenters: There is only one Queen Bee". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  6. ↑ "Laura Woods breaks silence after Ireland AM exit - Extra.ie". 17 September 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
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