Gráinne Seoige
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Gráinne Seoige is an Irish newsreader who is currently the main anchor for Sky News Ireland. She was born on November 5, 1974 in Spiddal, County Galway.
Career
Seoige began her career on October 31, 1996 with the launch of Teilifís na Gaeilge (now TG4) anchoring the 10pm news bulletin with Gillian Ni Cheallaigh. She stayed there until 1998, when she moved to the recently launched 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 was also the presenter of Ireland AM, Ireland's only breakfast programme. Seoige moved to Sky News Ireland and has presented news there since 2004.Gráinne is the sister of Síle Seoige, who is also an Irish TV presenter. Seoige has been married to her former colleague, TV3 News Sports Correspondent Stephen Cullinane, since 2002.
Her name is pronounced 'Grawn-ya Show-ih-ge'.
In February 2006,Gráinne began presenting overnight bulletins on Sky News (which is often called the "graveyard shift" because of the low amount of viewers it gets). From the end of the week beginning the 6th February, Gráinne presented Sky News Today from 9am to 12pm,filling in for the regular presenters (including Martin Stanford who presented Live At 5 for a while during Jeremy Thompson's break from work) and Anna Botting and Anna Jones. After her brief stint at the Sky News Centre in London, Gráinne returned to Dublin to continue to front Sky News Ireland each weekday evening. Seoige left Sky News in May 2006, and will begin presenting a new magzine/lifestyle programme on weekday afternoons from October 2006 with Irish national broadcaster RTE.
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