Kirsteen MacDonald

Kirsteen MacDonald (Scottish Gaelic: Kirsteen NicDhomhnaill) is a Scottish broadcaster for BBC Alba. She has presented the children's magazine show De a-nis? and been a Glasgow-based reporter for BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.

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• Catriona Shearer and Kirsteen MacDonald BBC Scotland HD Reporting Scotland News and Weather March 13
• Sally McNair and Kirsteen MacDonald BBC Reporting Scotland HD News and Weather October 4th 2018
• References

MacDonald was born in Inverness, and educated at the Gaelic-medium unit at the city's Central Primary School, and at Millburn Academy.

She is now a weather presenter on BBC Alba's news programme, An La (The Day) and is the first Scots Gaelic weather presenter. She also presents the weekly news review programme, Seachd La (Seven Days) on Sunday nights.

Macdonald won the prestigious women's Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod in 2006. In 2008, she had an operation to remove her appendix, shortly after her operation she entered the Mod in Falkirk, where she won the women's traditional medal. MacDonald received the "Gaelic Ambassador of the Year Award" at the 2014 Royal National Mod.