Pádraic Ó Neachtain is a television presenter, director and journalist. He was born in 1973.

Pádraic currently works for Telegael in An Spidéal and presents feature programmes for TG4

TG4

TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....

. A native of Indreabhán, Co na Gaillimhe, Padraic is the eldest of five siblings. He attended Coláiste Chroí Mhuire Secondary School in An Spidéal. He graduated from University College Galway with a B.A in History and Irish in 1995.

Pádraic has a wide range of experience presenting and directing live and pre-recorded broadcasting including sports, cookery, political and children's programmes. He has worked as a news editor with Nuacht RTÉ

Nuacht RTÉ

Nuacht RTÉ is one of two Irish language television news services broadcast by RTÉ News and Current Affairs in Ireland...

. He has presented numerous television programmes including Echo Island

Echo Island

Echo Island was an Irish television programme for children and young adults, shown on RTÉ Network 2. It was shown at 17:00 during The Den. The show effectively took over from Jo Maxi which had been aimed at Teenagers....

 and DEN TV on RTÉ and An Tuath Nua on TG4

TG4

TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....

. He was one of the 1st presenters on TG4 when it started broadcasting in 1996 when he presented the chat show Síbín. He was involved with the production of the Irish language version of Sesame Street and is the voice of Elmo and Bert.

Radio experience include newsreader with Radio na Gaeltachta and he presented the RTÉ Drivetime Farm News on RTÉ

RTE

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 Radio One for a number of years.

He has worked for the Irish Farmers Journal

Irish Farmers Journal

The Irish Farmers Journal is a weekly farm newspaper sold in Ireland. It is the best selling farm magazine in the country selling over 70,000 copies per week...

 and the Irish language newspaper Foinse

Foinse

-History:Foinse was first published in October 1996 as a weekly Saturday newspaper. It was published in Carraroe, County Galway and printed in Tralee. It was first published in October 1996....

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He was campaign manager for Seán Ó Neachtain's

Seán Ó Neachtain

Seán Ó Neachtain is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the North–West constituency from 2002, when he was substituted for Pat the Cope Gallagher, until 2009....

 bid for the European Parliament

European Parliament

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in 2005.