Enda Caldwell (born in National Maternity Hospital, Dublin on 28 March 1975) is an Irish radio personality and voice actor from Kilberry, Navan, County Meath.
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As a child Caldwell studied Speech and Drama with the London College of Music. He attended Wilkinstown N.S. first as his primary education began and later transferred to St.Oliver Plunkett's in Navan for his final year of Primary. From 1988 to 1993 Enda attended Navan Community College now known as Beaufort College Navan where he completed his leaving cert. Though his first passion was for cars and the motor industry Caldwell was always interested in music and broadcasting through his love of drama listening to Pat Courtenay on Energy 103 breakfast with all the characters he created. He DJ'ed his first disco at the age of 14. He studied Radio Production and Journalism at Ballyfermot College of Further Education in Dublin from 1993 to 1995 where he achieved a merit profile in Radio Production and Journalism (Media) with a HND from BTEC.
Caldwell's Media career began with helping out at Atlantic 252 as an assistant to Tony West. In 1991 he went on to do a course in Television with Navan Community Television now known as Province 5 Television. His radio career began on Irish pirate radio in 1992 at Kiss FM in Dundalk. Later in 1994 Enda presented some Friday afternoon shows for "Dublin's Dance Music Factory" Sunset 107, as Enda Story. He and Greg Parke were instrumental in establishing Navan's Energy Radio on October 1, 1994.
After graduating from BCFE, Caldwell worked evenings at Tipp FM in Tipperary, WLR FM in Waterford and LMFM in Louth and Meath before debuting at Wexford's radio station South East Radio in 1997 with "South East Radio's Power FM." He worked briefly at Q102.9 and Midlands 103 before moving to Kiss 106 (Northern Ireland) where he launched the station's live programming and presenting its first ever live breakfast show.
In late 1998 he played the hospital porter in Angela's Ashes, a 1999 film based on the memoir of the same title by Frank McCourt. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen as young Frank. Enda is to be seen pushing the hospital trolley with Joe Breen as young Frank after his character develops appendicitis.
Caldwell was later to become Head of Production at the satellite station Radio Limerick One and RLO TV, based in Limerick. In late 1999 and early 2000, Caldwell was also DJing live at many venues across Ireland.
In February 2000, John O'Hara hired Caldwell as the overnight presenter with the newly relaunched Atlantic 252. Caldwell earned an international reputation working for RTE and RTL Group for almost two years, presenting every possible shift on the station. His work there included the final live drivetime show from their studios at Mornington House in County Meath on Thursday 20 December 2001, at approximately 4.55pm this was followed by a specially compiled Tribute show produced by Enda Caldwell and Eric Murphy celebrating the station's 12 year history of broadcasting and featuring classic airchecks and playlist tracks from each year of Atlantic 252's history.
For the next several years, Caldwell worked at a number of radio stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including Today FM, where he most notably launched Planet Hits the "Saturday Night Hitmusic show" on May 26, 2001 and later went on to present key shifts on the station. He also regularly filled in for Tim Kelly on The Today FM Top 40. In 2003, Caldwell launched the very first "Nothin' but 90's" show on Today FM and presented that show for over two years. He has also presented mainstream daytime shows for Cool FM, Wyvern FM, Beat 102-103, Kiss 100, Xfm, Real Radio, Reading 107, Choice FM in Ireland and Dublin's Country Mix 106.8 before moving to Luxembourg to work for Radio Luxembourg.
On September 26, 2006, Caldwell moved to Luxembourg to take up a programming and presentation position at the newly relaunched Radio Luxembourg.
From July to December 2008 Enda hosted Drivetime at Riviera Radio in Monaco. More recently he has been heard on Kevin Branigan's temporary licence Classic Rock station 94.9 The Rock where he presented "The Classic Album at Midnight" and some 90's shows on The 90's Network, also a Dublin temporary licence station.
Since 2002 Caldwell has operated his own Freelance voice-over and Media business Enda Caldwell Productions.
Currently he is the male station imaging voice of Beat 102-103 the number one youth radio station in Ireland. He has also voiced radio imaging for other stations including Galway's 958 and Iur FM.
Most recently he played a character voice for an Italian children's cartoon animation called "Pipi Pupu and Rosemarie" penned by the Oscar award winning screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami which and is due for syndication with BBC and on Canadian TV and many other outlets internationally.
Caldwell can be heard now head nowadays occasionly on Dublin's radio station FM104 and more recently has joined the Sunday afternoon slot on Wicklow's radio station East Coast FM.
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