Aidan Power is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 television presenter. He appears from time to time on Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...

 (RTÉ).

Career

Power was educated at St. Mac Dara's community college and then Ballyfermot Senior College where he obtained a postgraduate diploma

Diploma

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 in broadcasting and journalism in 1998. He began his career as a DJ and presented West Dublin Community Radio alongside reporting for RTÉ's daytime show 12-2-1.

Subsequently Power worked as a presenter on a variety of shows such as Open House

Open House (Ireland)

Open House is an Irish afternoon television show broadcast on RTÉ One between 1998 and 2003. The last episode was broadcast in 2004. It was presented by Mary Kennedy and Marty Whelan and focused on lifestyle, cookery and human interest issues. Presenters included Dermot O'Neill, the popular...

and The Den

The Den (television)

The Den was the brand of the children's television strand on Irish public broadcaster RTÉ Two. It first broadcast on 29 September 1986 on RTÉ One, before moving to RTÉ Two in September 1988. The strand began to diversify throughout the late 1990s and the 2000s...

. In 2003, he left RTÉ and joined Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

 as anchor presenter on their daily show NickL8R, but he left this show in 2004 to concentrate on co-presenting The Cafe

The Cafe (chat show)

The Cafe was an Irish chat programme aimed at youthful persons. It was broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of the TTV strand each Friday evening at 19:00, having switched from its previous location in the Thursday scheduling from 7 November 2008....

with Laura Woods

Laura Woods

Laura Woods is an Irish television presenter and former radio continuity announcer. She began her television career by presenting iD , co-presenting The Cafe with Aidan Power and later presenting SMS. She then presented numerous game shows, including Winning Streak, Fame and Fortune, The Trump Card...

, until October 2008 when he became the show's sole presenter. In September 2005, he became the face of TTV

TTV (RTÉ)

TTV was a youth-aimed programming strand broadcast on RTÉ Two in Ireland, from 17:00 - 19:00, on weekdays. TTV replaced iD Two, which was basically the same show with few differences, on Monday 19 September 2005...

until July 2007. In September 2007, he co-presented one series of Class Act

Class Act (Irish TV series)

Class Act is an Irish talent show which last aired on RTÉ One on Sundays at 18:30 throughout September and October 2008. It was presented by Derek Mooney...

with Síle Seoige

Síle Seoige

Síle Seoige is an Irish television presenter and Gaeilgeoir. She is fluent in both Irish and English, and has worked for Raidió Teilifís Éireann and the Irish language station TG4...

. He hosted Celebrities Go Wild with Anna Nolan

Anna Nolan

Anna Nolan is an Irish television presenter, producer and former business manager, waitress and Irish international basketball player. She has presented numerous television programmes in Ireland and the UK...

 in October 2007 In September 2008, he began co-presenting Winning Streak: Dream Ticket

Winning Streak: Dream Ticket

Winning Streak: Dream Ticket was a weekly Irish game show in which five contestants play a number of games to win cars, holidays, and cash prizes up to €500,000. Broadcast on Saturday nights between 13 September 2008 until 6 June 2009 on RTÉ One, the game show is among the channel's most popular...

with Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn Thomas is an Irish television presenter from Carlow. She does be doing the holiday programme on RTÉ. Now she does a Winning Streak every week with Marty Whelan...

. He quit Winning Streak: Dream Ticket

Winning Streak: Dream Ticket

Winning Streak: Dream Ticket was a weekly Irish game show in which five contestants play a number of games to win cars, holidays, and cash prizes up to €500,000. Broadcast on Saturday nights between 13 September 2008 until 6 June 2009 on RTÉ One, the game show is among the channel's most popular...

in 2009 to present a behind-the-scenes show of The All Ireland Talent Show Backstage.

In 2010, he started presenting SuperCrew on TRTE, and he began working on Celebrity Bainisteoir

Celebrity Bainisteoir

Celebrity Bainisteoir is a prime-time reality programme produced for Radio Telefís Éireann, which was produced by Animo Television/Kite Entertainment...

. He is also currently presenting the 98fm Morning Show with Clare Solan.

Notable incident

Power was surprised on 23 October 2008 when wrestling superstars Joe Legend and Scotty Too Hotty come in to talk about the wrestling events around Ireland but in a strange turn of events end up taking on Power and trashing the Cafe. Power later admitted this was the highlight of his broadcasting career.

External links

• Aidan Power at The Cafe
  The Cafe (chat show)
  The Cafe was an Irish chat programme aimed at youthful persons. It was broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of the TTV strand each Friday evening at 19:00, having switched from its previous location in the Thursday scheduling from 7 November 2008....