Aidan Cooney

Aidan Cooney is an Irish television and radio presenter. He is a presenter of Ireland AM on TV3. He also works doing a weekday show on Q102,The Right Song Right Now In The Afternoon from 2pm to 5pm.

He anchors the sports bulletins in between running in and out of the studio kitchen where he interviews various chefs and also helps preparing the food.

Cooney took part in a “Eat less, move more” three month challenge on Ireland AM designed to make him lose part his excess weight, he also underwent laboratory tests.

In 2010, Cooney spoke to Paul Galvin in his first full interview since Galvin was given an eight-week ban from the CCCC.

Cooney also anchors the show on a regular basis and has in the past fronted the stations nightly flagship show Sports Tonight and was frontman for the UEFA Champions League series for three seasons. He was TV3 news anchor from 1998-2003. He took part in the Dublin Marathon in 2006 and 2007.

Cooney began his career with Eamonn Cooke's Radio Dublin in the late 1970s as Aidan Jay. He went on to a number of other pirate stations in Dublin including Annabel Radio, Q102 and Treble TR. Aidan was the weekend breakfast presenter on Century Radio (Ireland's first national commercial radio station) between September and November 1989. He then was involved with Classic Hits 98FM, initially as Head of Sport ("our man Aidan Cooney"). He eventually got to present the weekday breakfast show with Kara Hanahoe, before leaving for TV3 in 1999.

He damaged his ankle in 1999.

He went to the United States to cover the 1994 FIFA World Cup for Classic Hits 98-FM.

He spoke in support of Meteor's controversial advertisement involving the ejection of an elderly lady from a party for not bringing a mobile phone as a gift.