One of Ireland's best-known broadcasters, Derek Mooney has been leading the development of wildlife radio broadcasting here for over a decade. His achievements in the natural history field include Habitats, The Nature Line, Nature trails and Mooney Goes Wild On 1, all for RTÉ Radio 1,
Wildtrack on RTÉ TV and Nature Detectives for the BBC.
He has also presented and produced RTÉ's most popular phone-in show Liveline, and a host of other daily magazine programmes for RTÉ Radio.
Derek is also one of Ireland's most popular television personalities - he presents the weekly national lottery programme Winning Streak on Saturday nights on RTÉ One.
