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Mairead Ronan (née Farrell; born 3 April 1980)) is an Irish television and radio presenter.
Early life
Mairead was born in Finglas on the Northside of Dublin. She attended a HR Management course after leaving school, but switched to a media course at Ballyfermot College of Further Education.
Radio career
Ronan was featured on The Ray D'Arcy Show that originally aired every Monday to Friday 9am to midday every weekday on Today FM. Mairead initially interned on the show before being promoted to broadcasting assistant, and then becoming co-producer and also featuring as an on-air contributor.
When Ray D'Arcy left Today FM, Ronan became the producer of The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. In 2017, after fifteen years with the radio station Ronan left the radio station to focus on other projects.
Television career
From November 2006 Mairead became a panelist on series five of the popular RTÉ show The Panel.
Ronan coached Ballymun Kickhams in the 2010 season of Celebrity Bainisteoir. She was also a regular on Republic of Telly on RTÉ 2.
She did Hello Baby, Bye Bye Body, an RTÉ programme on post-pregnancy body issues, in December 2011.
In October 2012 she was the main presenter of Celebrity Bainisteoir:the Rivals, and in November 2012 she was a presenter on the new The Movie Show on RTÉ Two.
Since 2013, Mairead has hosted the RTÉ competition reality programme, Ireland's Fittest Family. In 2018, she stepped down from hosting the sixth series of the show to have her third child.
In 2017, Ronan became the co-host of the RTÉ travel show, Getaways, with Joe Lindsay.
She was the winner the 2019 series of the Irish edition of Dancing with the Stars.
Business ventures
In April 2016, in partnership with Debbie Lawless, Ronan launched FARO, a hairstyling equipment brand.
Personal life
It was announced on 4 July 2010 that her marriage to advertising executive Eddie Fitzpatrick had ended. She had married him at the age of 24 after meeting him when her mother died on the eve of her 21st birthday. Mairead got engaged to businessman Louis Ronan and they were married in the village of Ballyclerihan in County Tipperary in June 2015.
As a result of her marriage, she subsequently changed her surname and now goes by "Mairead Ronan".
Mairead has three children: a son, Dara, from her first marriage to Fitzpatrick whom she had when she was 26, and two daughters, Eliza and Bonnie, from her second marriage to Ronan.