Doireann Garrihy: Last News

X Factor and mentoring JLS in 2008.The judge was close to winning with the popular boy band, but missed out on the victory to Alexandra Burke, 34, who was mentored Cheryl, 39.Louis has now claimed Cheryl "played up to" Simon Cowell, 63, and implied it helped her be that year's winning judge."Simon pulled a really nasty stroke on me," the 70-year-old began."I wanted them to win the show, they were in the final, they got there and they were up against Alexandra Burke."He went on to say that at that point, he and Cheryl were "real rivals" who both wanted to win.Miriam Margolyes raged at 'total s***s' John Cleese and Bill Oddie"We were trying to pull every stroke.So, Simon wants Cheryl to win, what does he do?"A little puzzled by his words, host Doireann Garrihy asked: "Hang on, why did he want her to win?""He liked her a lot," Louis replied on her The Laughs Of Your Life podcast. "And, she was playing up to him.

Robert Sheehan has shared how Shane McGowan did him a good deed by having him ‘unbarred’ from a London pub after a night out saw him thrown out of the premises.

Presenter Aidan Power looks to be the latest to face to leave the Ireland AM studio at Virgin Media.

Vogue Williams may be a high-flying model, DJ and television presenter now but she had much more humble beginnings.

The annual IMRO Radio Awards are set to take place in the coming weeks and the nominations have been announced.

Doireann Garrihy is a proud aunt to four little ones and she has opened up about her plans to have her own some day.

Charlene McKenna has confessed she suffered ‘a total breakdown’ at the height of her early career.

Lucy Kennedy and her rescue puppy Riley proved to be the ‘paw-fect’ partnership as they sniffed out a sizeable market share of viewers this week. But the same time slot proved ‘ruff’ going for Doireann Garrihy whose returning RTÉ comedy show was something of a dog’s dinner, ratings wise.

Dozens of names were being thrown into the ring when it came to who would be in the hot seat alongside Doireann Garrihy on the all-new 2FM Breakfast Show. The new presenters’ identities were more guarded than the Third Secret of Fatima.

Carl Mullan was announced as one of the new Breakfast Show presenters on RTÉ 2FM after months of speculation. The comedian had stepped in when Eoghan McDermott left for a handful of shows, leading fans to believe he would get the permanent position.

Doireann Garrihy has plenty to celebrate as she marks her 29th birthday with the RTÉ presenter showing off her colourful personality with an equally bright suit from Virgos Lounge in the UK and is a firm favourite amongst influencers.

Doireann Garrihy has opened up about how being a bigger child affected her when she was in performing school, while also revealing that she now tries to be nicer to her younger self.

Doireann Garrihy could be getting a big brother with reality show star Brian Dowling hotly tipped to be lined up as the new co-host for 2FM’s Morning Show.

There’s a big shake-up in the works in 2FM and Doireann Garrihy is at the helm of it.

It’s quite sad, but being a public figure on social media means that you are open to a certain amount of trolls sliding into the comments, mainly always unwanted.

Doireann Garrihy will be off the air this week as she recovers from a very nasty looking leg injury.

Doireann Garrihy has been hitting the headlines this week as RTÉ confirmed the departure of her 2FM breakfast show host Eoghan McDermott.

As Eoghan McDermott’s absence from 2FM’s breakfast show continues and reports circulate that he has left the RTÉ station, favourite names to replace him have emerged.

Radio presenter Eoghan McDermott is due to bid farewell to RTÉ’s 2fm after serving the station for over six years.

We’ve learned where Doireann Garrihy gets her wit from as she was royally called out by her father on social media.

On the weekend of March 15, Doireann Garrihy celebrated a big milestone: moving out of the house she shared with her sister Ailbhe and her new husband Ruaidhri, and into her own apartment.