Name Kate Smith | Role Television presenter | |
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Education Queen's University Belfast | ||
Kate Smith (b. Belleek, County Fermanagh) is a former Northern Irish television presenter and journalist.
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Broadcasting career
Smith began her broadcasting career at Downtown Radio as a newsreader and reporter. She later worked as a presenter and reporter for RTÉ in 1980 and moved to UTV in 1983.
Smith hosted her last edition of UTV Live in December 2006. Since her departure from UTV, she has taken workshops in media education, and she was appointed a board member of Northern Ireland Screen in December 2007.
Personal life
Before her broadcasting career, Smith studied sociology and psychology at Queen's University, Belfast and took a postgraduate course in sociology at University College Dublin. Her first journalism work was as an agony aunt for the Sunday News paper.
Smith has worked with a number of charities, including the William Keown Trust, the Prince's Trust and CLIC Sergeant Cancer Care. She is married to chef Michael Deane and they have one adopted son.