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Darren Kennedy is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

television presenter currently working for the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

Education

Kennedy went to Dublin Institute of Technology

Dublin Institute of Technology

Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...

(DIT) to study International Business and Languages, a year of which was spent at L'École de Commerce at Université de Bordeaux. He holds a first-class honors degree and is a fluent French speaker. He later attended London's premier fashion college Central Saint Martins.

Channel 5

Kennedy is currently filming a new travel series for Channel 5 which will begin broadcasting in January 2012.

BBC

Kennedy co-presented the 13 part series Project Parent with Angellica Bell broadcasting on BBC1, BBC2 and CBBC.

Channel 4

In November 2011, Kennedy hosted highlight coverage of Channel 4's activities as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week for C4 online.

RTE

In 2010, he presented on the third series of Operation Transformation
Operation Transformation (TV series)
Operation Transformation is an Irish health and fitness programme. The show is a cross-media event broadcast via radio, web and television on RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ.ie and RTÉ One since 2008...

on RTÉ One

RTÉ One

RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

, on radio with The Gerry Ryan Show
The Gerry Ryan Show
The Gerry Ryan Show was RTÉ 2fm's mid-morning radio show...

, as well as hosting a daily online TV show. He was also a regular guest on RTÉ's Four Live and hosted a series of reports from around Ireland on home interiors. From 2005-2008 he was Entertainment News presenter on RTE2's TTV
TTV (RTÉ)
TTV was a youth-aimed programming strand broadcast on RTÉ Two in Ireland, from 17:00 - 19:00, on weekdays. TTV replaced iD Two, which was basically the same show with few differences, on Monday 19 September 2005...

http://rte.ie/ttv Ireland's most-viewed youth TV show. He has also appeared on The Daily Show
The Daily Show
The Daily Show , is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998...

, The Afternoon Show
The Afternoon Show
The Afternoon Show was Raidió Teilifís Éireann's live flagship daytime show. It ran from 2004 until May 2010. The programme was dropped by RTÉ as part of its new season of television in 2010, to be replaced by two afternoon programmes 4 Daily presented by Maura Derrane and The Daily Show hosted by...

, Off the Rails, Ireland AM
Ireland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...

and Seoige and O'Shea. An experienced live radio broadcaster, he was a regular guest with RTÉ 2fm's The Gerry Ryan Show
The Gerry Ryan Show
The Gerry Ryan Show was RTÉ 2fm's mid-morning radio show...

and on Derek Mooney's daily programme on RTÉ Radio One. In 2008, Kennedy co-hosted the 10-part series The Showjumping Premier Series on Sky Sports

Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

Style

As of May 2010, Kennedy writes a weekly style column in the Irish Independent
Irish Independent
The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper that is published in both compact and broadsheet formats. It is the flagship publication of Independent News & Media.-History:...

Weekend Magazine

In 2009, he founded online magazine Helpmystyle.i.e.

He also contributes to various publications including Irish Tatler The Men's Issue, GCN
Gay Community News (Dublin)
Gay Community News, based in Dublin, is Ireland's longest-running LGBT publication. First published on 10 February 1988 when Tonie Walsh and Catherine Glendon, both activists on the Dublin gay scene, decided it was time for Ireland’s gay and lesbian population to have a free publication of their...

, The Wedding Journal and Joe.i.e.

TV production

Kennedy learned his craft behind the camera working at every level of TV production starting out as a runner. He has worked on numerous top rated TV programmes as researcher, assistant producer, studio stage manager and producer.

His production credits include CBS's The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...

, Operation Transformation
Operation Transformation (TV series)
Operation Transformation is an Irish health and fitness programme. The show is a cross-media event broadcast via radio, web and television on RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ.ie and RTÉ One since 2008...

series 1, 2 & 3 http://rte.ie/ot, The IFTA's, The Restaurant
The Restaurant (Irish TV series)
The Restaurant is a successful Irish reality television programme broadcast on RTÉ One. The seventh series began on 16 November 2008, running on Sundays at 20:30. In each episode a celebrity head chef takes on the culinary challenge of producing a top class, three-course meal with two...

, Showhouse
Showhouse
Showhouse is an Irish makeover reality television series broadcast on RTÉ One. Presented by the interior architect Neville Knott, it is a creation of Vision Independent Productions, responsible for the popular television shows, The Restaurant and Colm and Jim-Jim's Home Run...

, Celebrities Go Wild, Holiday Quiz, Diary of a Debutante, Quizone, Ireland AM
Ireland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...

and Holiday Quiz for RTÉ.

Education

Channel 5

BBC

Channel 4

RTE

Style

TV production

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