Cynthia Ní Mhurchú
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Cynthia Ní Mhurchú | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 54–55) Carlow, Ireland |
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| Employer | Formerly RTÉ |
| Known for | Eurovision Song Contest 1994 |
| Children | 2 |
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (born 1966) is an Irish barrister from Carlow and previously a broadcaster with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). She presented Eurovision Song Contest 1994 in Dublin along with Gerry Ryan.
Biography[]
Ní Mhurchú initially worked as a teacher in an Irish language school in Carlow and then spent ten years working as a journalist and presenter in RTÉ, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and as a freelancer. She has also been a web columnist for several years and has written extensively on education, training and careers. She became a barrister after leaving RTÉ.[1]
During the 1990s, she presented RTE's Lotto Draw.
Ní Mhurchú is married and has two children.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Murphy, Catherine (16 October 2011). "Female TV Presenters: There is only one Queen Bee". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
Other female faces from the 1990s also moved on from their TV careers — among them Ciana Campbell who now works in PR in the west of Ireland, and Cynthia Ni Mhurchu, now a barrister.
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Categories:
- 1966 births
- 20th-century Irish people
- 21st-century Irish people
- Living people
- Irish barristers
- Irish columnists
- Irish schoolteachers
- RTÉ television presenters
- People from County Carlow
- RTÉ newsreaders and journalists
- RTÉ Radio presenters
- Irish women lawyers
- RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta presenters
- Women television journalists
- Women radio journalists
- Women columnists