Aoife Ní Thuairisg is an Irish language

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 presenter on TG4

TG4

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Aoife Ní Thuairisg was born in Inverin

Inverin

Indreabhán is a Gaeltacht village between Spiddal and Casla in County Galway, Ireland. Inverin is more strongly Irish-speaking than Spiddal, partly due to fewer commuters from Galway living there. There are a number of Irish-language summer colleges in the area, most notably Coláiste Lurgan and...

 in Conamara and has two brothers and one sister. Before working in television, she ran her own business. She started working as a presenter on TG4 in 1997, and now presents the weather and is also a continuity announcer. She has presented various programmes in the past, including Ceol Tíre, the popular country music show, and the Féilte series, as well as live coverage of the Wimbledon Championships. She has also produced several programmes herself.

She produced several episodes of the successful series Paisean Faisean. However, she became involved in controversy when she refused to present a show featuring gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 men, citing her Jehovah's Witness religious beliefs.

External links

• http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=777273669
• http://www.rte.ie/tv/turasteanga/guest1.html
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2101403/
• http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/paper-prophet-aoife-ni-thuairisg-132075.html