Ger Gilroy is leaving Newstalk and joining RT\u00c9 to present a daily sports podcast.<\/p>\n
The new show will launch later this year and will cover GAA, soccer, rugby, athletics, boxing and other sports.<\/p>\n
Mr Gilroy has worked across radio, podcasting, TV and digital video over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n
His most recent roles were as Managing Director of Off The Ball and host of Off The Ball Breakfast every Monday to Thursday.<\/p>\n
He was born in Belfast, grew up in Athy, Co Kildare and then moved to Dublin in the 90’s.<\/p>\n
Mr Gilroy said he is “thrilled to be joining and can’t wait to start chatting with new audiences across RT\u00c9\u2019s podcast network about the things they love”.<\/p>\n
“It’s great to have two-way conversations that include the audience, so we’ll be wherever they are online -talking to them, but also listening to what they’re interested in.<\/p>\n
“Frankly, that’s more important than ever in the face of the onslaught of AI and, let’s face it, some made-up stuff,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Belfast native added: “I\u2019m also looking forward to collaborating with some of the great people in RT\u00c9 Sport, which has borne witness to many of the most electrifying moments this country has had over the years.<\/p>\n
“I can’t wait to get started, it’s going to be some craic.”<\/p>\n
In a statement, RT\u00c9 officials said the new show is part of an “ambitious” new strategy.<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9\u2019s Director of Audio Patricia Monahan said Mr Gilroy\u2019s appointment, “the original slate of podcasts that we are rolling out in the coming months and the launch of our new Audio App later this year are signs of how that promise is now coming to life in RT\u00c9 Audio and our ambition to provide for audiences wherever they are”.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Head of RT\u00c9 Podcasts Hugh Ormond said: “We are really excited to work with Ger because of his obvious on-air charisma and his standing in the sports community – but also his innate understanding that love of sport is rooted in stories, characters, opinions and humour.<\/p>\n
“We are looking forward to growing Ger\u2019s RT\u00c9 audience, bringing them amazing sports coverage, and seeing where else this might take us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ger Gilroy is leaving Newstalk and joining RT\u00c9 to present a daily sports podcast. The new show will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-524364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}