Mairéad Farrell is an Irish radio presenter. She is a long-standing member of Ray D'Arcy's team on Today FM. She has vowed to never leave D'Arcy, who she has described as being "like my mammy".[1]
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Mairead was born and bred in Finglas on the Northside of Dublin. On a 2008 episode of The Panel, she admitted to have completed a year in Dundalk Institute of Technology but dropped out at the end of her first year on the consent of her mother. She has said she was "never academic".
Farrell is featured on The Ray D'Arcy Show 9am to midday every weekday on Today FM.[2] Mairead initially interned on the show before being promoted to broadcasting assistant, and then becoming co-producer and featuring as an on-air contributor.
From November 2006 Mairead became a regular panelist on series five of the popular RTÉ show The Panel.[3] She is often the butt of the other panellists' jokes, as there is usually only one female panelist.
Mairead represented Ballymun Kickhams in the 2010 season of Celebrity Bainisteoir.
She was also a regular on Republic of Telly on RTE 2.
It was announced on July 4th 2010 that her marriage to advertising executive Eamon Fitzpatrick had ended. They have a two-year-old son called Dara.[4] She had married him at the age of 24 after meeting him when her mother died on the eve of her 21st birthday. Her father, 73, is still alive and well. Mairead is now in a relationship with a man called Louie. [5]
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