Paul Clark (presenter)

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Paul Thompson^[1] Clark (b. 4 December 1953, Belfast)^[2] is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. He is currently a presenter and reporter for UTV Live.

Paul trained as a journalist at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education having attended St. Mary's CBGS. In the past, Paul has been a presenter on Downtown Radio and RTE Radio 2. In the early 1980s, he hosted a series of debates, Milestones or Millstones, for UTV, and he co-hosted a cookery show with local chef Clare Connery, Cooking with Claire, for BBC Northern Ireland.

In the early 1980s, Paul joined the reporting and presenting team of BBC Northern Ireland's Inside Ulster, and in 1989 he moved to UTV present Six Tonight. He was also the presenter, and reported for UTV's current affairs series Counterpoint between 1990 and 1993. Paul has also presented and produced a number of religious and historical documentaries for UTV, and from 1996 and 2005, he presented and narrated coverage of UTV's annual School Choir of the Year competition.

Paul is known for his work with local Down's syndrome charities in Northern Ireland. He is married and has two children.