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Dermot Murnaghan
Born
Dermot John Murnaghan
(1957-12-26) 26 December 1957 (age 66)
Barnstaple, Devon, England
Education
University of Sussex
Occupation(s)
Journalist, television presenter
Years active
1984–present
Employers
Channel 4
CNBC Europe
ITV
BBC
Sky News
Notable credits
The Business Program
The Channel Four Daily
ITV Lunchtime News
ITV Evening News
BBC Breakfast
Eggheads
Sky News Today
Are You an Egghead?
Murnaghan
Sky News Tonight
Spouse
Maria Keegan
(m. 1989)
Children
4
Dermot John Murnaghan (/ˈmɜːrnəhən/; born 26 December 1957) is a British media personality, notable as a journalist, news reporter and television host. He has been a presenter for numerous networks including at Channel 4, a news presenter at CNBC Europe, Independent Television News and BBC News. He has presented news programmes in a variety of time slots since joining Sky News in 2007, until the end of February 2023.
He also presented the BBC quiz show Eggheads between 2003 and 2014 before Jeremy Vine took over full-time.
On 8 September 2022, Sky News was the first British television media outlet to report that monarch Queen Elizabeth II had died, with Murnaghan presenting the afternoon rolling coverage live.
Dermot John Murnaghan (/ˈmɜːrnəhən/; born 26 December 1957) is a British media personality, notable as a journalist, news reporter and television host...
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(formerly BBC Two) quiz programme Eggheads, taking over from former host DermotMurnaghan full-time in 2014. In 2015, he was a contestant on the 13th series...
was revamped, this time with a returning Julia Somerville alongside DermotMurnaghan. Owen and Barnes remained as relief presenters. On 8 March 1999, coinciding...
weekday presenter of Breakfast in 2008, rejoining Williams and replacing DermotMurnaghan. Turnbull was also an occasional relief presenter of News at Six and...
Brazier. From Tuesday 8 January 2008, former BBC Breakfast anchor DermotMurnaghan replaced Julie Etchingham as main presenter of the show. Etchingham...
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Radio Times. Retrieved 27 April 2021. "On the Sky News Daily podcast, DermotMurnaghan speaks to comic and virologist, Ria Lina about whether Covid has changed...
Starmer took on the role later that year. She accused Sky News presenter DermotMurnaghan of sexism after he asked her to name French minister of foreign affairs...
well-known newscasters in the UK. Julia Somerville, John Suchet and DermotMurnaghan each presented News at Ten when McDonald was absent. The bulletin carried...
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main female presenter of BBC Breakfast, presenting initially with DermotMurnaghan and then Bill Turnbull from 2008. Williams left BBC Breakfast on 15...
2000, which she presented alongside Jeremy Bowen and in later years, DermotMurnaghan, on Monday–Thursdays, and sometimes with regular relief presenters...
at 5:40 – the time at which the programme began. Around this time, DermotMurnaghan became the main relief presenter in addition to his role as the lead...
a similar programme called Murnaghan, with DermotMurnaghan, was broadcast in the 10:00am Sunday slot. In 2017 Murnaghan moved to present Sky News Tonight...
Left 26th August 2023. DermotMurnaghan Left 23 February 2023, after 16 years on Sky News. The last Tonight News with Dermot was broadcast on 28 February...
television sector | News | Broadcast". Broadcast. Retrieved 11 April 2015. "Dermot O'Leary to leave The X Factor". BBC News. BBC. 27 March 2015. Retrieved...
Eamonn Holmes. Sky News. 6 October 2005. * BBC Breakfast. Presenters: DermotMurnaghan, Natasha Kaplinsky. BBC One. 20 October 2005. Media attention worldwide:...
Owen and Carol Barnes. DermotMurnaghan, Sonia Ruseler and Julia Somerville acted as relief newscasters until 1995, when Murnaghan and Somerville became...
Friday at 11:00pm. The 20-minute bulletin, originally presented by DermotMurnaghan, was introduced as part of a major overhaul of news on ITV that saw...