Seán Moncrieff
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Seán Moncrieff is an Irish writer, journalist and television presenter.
Sean Moncrieff was born in London to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. When he was twelve, his family moved to Ballinasloe, County Galway, where he attended Garbally College. After school he studied journalism in Dublin and later on did a degree in English and Philosophy in University College Dublin.
Initially, he worked as a freelance journalist in Dublin, writing on everything from flower shows to the conflict in the Middle East. He then moved to London, where he worked for the television trade magazine Broadcast, and then as a researcher for Channel 4.
Upon returning to Ireland, he resumed his career as a freelance journalist, but also began working for RTÉ. He started on radio with the daily It Says In the Papers, and followed this up devising and presenting many hit television programmes: The End, Good Grief Moncrieff, Black Box and Don't Feed The Gondolas, which was nominated was for an IFTA Award. On RTE radio he presented the Saturday morning show The Right Side, and was a regular contributor to The Arts Show, The Marian Finucane Show and A Living Word. In the UK he has worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5, both as a scriptwriter and presenter.
Also on RTE, Sean has presented The Big 40, a celebration of forty years of Irish television, Ireland Undercover, HQ, The Holiday Quiz and is the voice of The Restaurant. He is much in demand as a voice-over artist and writes a weekly column for The Examiner newspaper.
His first novel, Dublin, was published in May 2001 by Doubleday and reached the bestseller lists in Ireland. A non-fiction book, Stark Raving Rulers: twenty minor despots of the twenty-first century, was published in October 2004, followed by God, A Users’ Guide in 2006. A second novel, The History of Things, is due in 2007.
Sean currently presents Moncrieff every afternoon on the Irish independent radio station Newstalk. the show has won several PPI Radio Awards, including one as the Best Light Entertainment Programme
