Laura Woods is an Irish television presenter and radio host.

Career

Whilst in her third year at Trinity, Woods began her broadcasting career by working as a continuity announcer on RTÉ Radio. In 1999, she presented the ''Breakfast Show'' on

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. She joined RTÉ Television as a continuity announcer in 2000. Moving from continuity announcing in September 2002, Woods became the face of ''iD''(renamed ''iD Two'' in late 2004) and remained there until May 2005. In 2004 she began co-presenting three series of '' The Cafe'' with Aidan Power. Woods anchored RTÉ's coverage of the Festival of World Cultures in 2005 and 2006, and joined Dave Fanning in

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to cover Live8 in July 2005. In September 2005, she began hosting ''SMS'', but left the show to concentrate on presenting the

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game show '' Winning Streak'' from January–March 2006 while regular presenter Derek Mooney was presenting ''You're a Star''. Woods hosted another

game show ''

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'' in June 2006, and went on to present the show's successors, ''

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'' from June–August 2007, and ''

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'' from June–August 2008. In 2007, she also began presenting an event guide on 2fm's ''The Will Leahy Show'' and made an appearance on the People in Need Telethon. She appeared as a participant on ''

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''Anonymous website''. URL last accessed 2007-03-16 in the first half of 2008. Woods has since moved to independent station Virgin Media Television, where she was a panellist on the ''Midday'' programme, and she now co-presents the breakfast show '' Ireland AM''.

References

External links

Laura Woods' profile
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