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Joanne Cantwell is an Irish sports presenter.

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Cantwell was raised in Dublin, one of five daughters. She studied journalism at Dublin City University. Cantwell is married with one daughter and lives in Ongar, Co. Dublin.

Sporting career

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Cantwell participated in a number of competitive sports from her early teens. She played Ladies Gaelic football for the Dublin senior women's team, and was part of the team that won Dublin's first-ever senior Leinster Ladies Senior Football Championship. She was named Young Dublin Player of the Year in 1997 and was awarded an All-Star in 1998.

Journalism career

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Cantwell began her journalism career while still in university, covering weekend sport on radio station FM104. In 2001, she joined the independent Irish channel TV3, where she produced news bulletins and presented the Sports Tonight show.

She then joined state broadcaster RTÉ. Cantwell is the presenter of weekly rugby magazine programme Against the Head on RTÉ Two, and was also a match reporter on Premier Soccer Saturday. During the summer months, Cantwell works as a reporter on The Sunday Game, Raidió Teilifís Éireann's main Gaelic games television programme. It is shown on RTÉ Two every Sunday during the Football Championship and Hurling Championship seasons.

In April 2016, Cantwell was the first woman to anchor RTÉ's coverage of the Champions League.

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