Rick O'Shea

This article is about the radio personality. For the comic strip, see Rick O'Shay.
Paul Crossan (born on 7 May 1973; assigned Rick O'Shea at the age of 20 while working for the now defunct longwave pop music station Atlantic 252) is an Irish radio personality. He was born in Drimnagh, Dublin 12, and attended Drimnagh Castle CBS and later UCD. He has been a presenter on RTÉ 2fm since 2001. O'Shea has also presented The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 since January 2015.

Before joining RTÉ 2fm in 2001, he had worked for East Coast Radio, Atlantic 252 and FM104. O'Shea presented the weekday afternoon show on 2fm until 2015, when the show was moved to the weekend schedule.

He began presenting The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 in January 2015.

O'Shea was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 16. and has been a patron of Brainwave, the Irish Epilepsy Association since 2006. He represented the charity in an Irish celebrity version of the quiz show Mastermind in 2012, winning the competition.

O'Shea has been nominated for Best Irish Radio DJ at the Meteor Music Awards on three occasions, in 2002, 2008 and 2009. O'Shea has also been nominated for three PPI National Radio Awards], winning a bronze award in 2011. In 2009 he was winner of Entertainment.ie's "Sexiest Radio Voice" award and was quoted as saying "This is the first thing I've ever won in 16 years of being a broadcaster. I am thus very excited and hideously embarrassed at the same time. Thanks."