Gráinne Seoige

IHDI Launch Event MC

Gráinne is one of Ireland's most popular hosts, and a regular MC at AGM’s, award ceremonies and conferences. Her easy presenting style and wonderful ability to inform and communicate important messages to an audience transfers flawlessly into the corporate sector.

A highly experienced presenter, Gráinne is the only television personality to have worked with all four Republic of Ireland television stations: TG4, TV3/Virgin Media, RTÉ one and RTÉ two. Gráinne is currently presenting "Ireland AM" after a successful stint on "The Six O’Clock Show" and is hosting a second season of "Grá Ar An Trá", Virgin Media’s bilingual dating show.

Born in Spiddal, Co. Galway in a bilingual household, she began her TV career in 1996 with the launch of TG4, anchoring the 10pm news bulletin. Gráinne was subsequently launch anchor for TV3 News and Sky News Ireland before moving to London to become Features Editor with ITV’s breakfast show, Daybreak and presenting on the BBC One primetime series "That’s Britain". Other high-profile roles for Gráinne have included presenting "The All Ireland Talent Show", co-presenting "Up for the Match", hosting the "People of the Year Awards", documentary series "Gráinne Seoige’s Modern Life", famine documentary "Great Irish Journeys" and daytime chat show "Seoige", as well as the award nominated menopause documentary "Menapás: Meon Nua".

Gráinne performed well on the 2022 series of "Dancing With The Stars" and was a winner of the VIP Style Award. She was presented with the Hewlett Packard Award for Irish at the 2007 University of Galway (then NUIG) Alumni Awards for services to the Irish language.