Doireann Garrihy is a Radio Broadcaster on Dublin station Spin 1038. She is one half of the Zoo Crew, which broadcasts weeknights from 7pm-10pm. The show is a mixture of the best music hits as well as great competitions and interviews.
Doireann kicked off her radio career with AA Roadwatch, reporting on both Breakfast Republic and The Eoghan McDermott Show on RTÉ 2FM. It wasn’t long before she had shown her broadcasting potential and within a year, she progressed to a full-time position in Spin 1038 as their Entertainment Reporter in May 2016. In May 2017, she was offered her current role on the Zoo Crew. Doireann has also featured on The Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM, discussing the trending news stories of the week.
Doireann is no stranger to TV Broadcasting. She launched her pilot show called The Doireann Project on the RTÉ Player. The show features a number of impressions of both well known names across Ireland as well as characters we regularly meet every day. Before moving into her current role on the Zoo Crew, Doireann rounded up the best stories from across the entertainment world every Friday on TV3’s The Six O’Clock Show. She acted as Entertainment Contributor to TV3’s Ireland AM. She has also appeared on TV3’s Elaine and Xpose. During RTE’s Dancing With The Stars, she was a panellist on the spin off show Can’t Stop Dancing. Doireann also worked with RTÉ at the 2017’s Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show where she reported on all the fashionable highlights of the day.
Doireann kicked off her radio career with AA Roadwatch, reporting on both Breakfast Republic and The Eoghan McDermott Show on RTÉ 2FM. It wasn’t long before she had shown her broadcasting potential and within a year, she progressed to a full-time position in Spin 1038 as their Entertainment Reporter in May 2016. In May 2017, she was offered her current role on the Zoo Crew. Doireann has also featured on The Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM, discussing the trending news stories of the week.
Doireann is no stranger to TV Broadcasting. She launched her pilot show called The Doireann Project on the RTÉ Player. The show features a number of impressions of both well known names across Ireland as well as characters we regularly meet every day. Before moving into her current role on the Zoo Crew, Doireann rounded up the best stories from across the entertainment world every Friday on TV3’s The Six O’Clock Show. She acted as Entertainment Contributor to TV3’s Ireland AM. She has also appeared on TV3’s Elaine and Xpose. During RTE’s Dancing With The Stars, she was a panellist on the spin off show Can’t Stop Dancing. Doireann also worked with RTÉ at the 2017’s Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show where she reported on all the fashionable highlights of the day.
Doireann rose to attention across social media, becoming known for her uncanny impressions of well-known Irish bloggers and personalities and as such, has amassed a major social following. Her Instagram account boasts over 146,000 followers, 20,400 Twitter followers and over 74,000 followers on Facebook. Organic reaches of the posts far surpass these figures reaching over 2 million people on some posts.
In 2017 Doireann was awarded with the Most Stylish Online Influencer Award at the Peter Mark VIP Style Awards, Best Snapchat Star at the Gossies as well as U Magazine’s 30 under 30 Rising Star Award. In 2018, The Zoo Crew with Martin and Doireann on Spin 1038 won Best Radio Show at the Gossies. Thanks to her warm personality, sharp wit and her ability to make people laugh, Doireann spoke at Zeminar 2017 MC's a number of BEO events, a health and wellness event taking place in various locations across the country. Doireann recently MC'd the Sky Shine Awards. She also took part in the Westport Sea to Summit Adventure Race in aid of the Make a Wish charity and MC’d the X Hale Youth Awards for the Irish Cancer Society.
Doireann graduated from Trinity College with a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies. From there, she enrolled in a Radio Production course with the Today FM School of Radio where she was bitten by the broadcasting bug! Doireann also runs a School of Speech & Drama in Castleknock in Dublin with her sister Ailbhe, teaching 60 children per week.
In 2017 Doireann was awarded with the Most Stylish Online Influencer Award at the Peter Mark VIP Style Awards, Best Snapchat Star at the Gossies as well as U Magazine’s 30 under 30 Rising Star Award. In 2018, The Zoo Crew with Martin and Doireann on Spin 1038 won Best Radio Show at the Gossies. Thanks to her warm personality, sharp wit and her ability to make people laugh, Doireann spoke at Zeminar 2017 MC's a number of BEO events, a health and wellness event taking place in various locations across the country. Doireann recently MC'd the Sky Shine Awards. She also took part in the Westport Sea to Summit Adventure Race in aid of the Make a Wish charity and MC’d the X Hale Youth Awards for the Irish Cancer Society.
Doireann graduated from Trinity College with a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies. From there, she enrolled in a Radio Production course with the Today FM School of Radio where she was bitten by the broadcasting bug! Doireann also runs a School of Speech & Drama in Castleknock in Dublin with her sister Ailbhe, teaching 60 children per week.