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Paul Dermot Connolly
Born29 September 1983 (1983-09-29) (age 41)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationJournalist
Notable worksDocumentary series:
Paul Connolly Investigates

Paul Dermot Connolly is an Irish investigative journalist, radio personality, and documentary maker, who worked for the Irish commercial television station TV3. He worked as a host for various famous Irish sports shows and also is the host of a series of investigative documentaries self-titled as Paul Connolly Investigates.

Career

Born in Dublin, Connolly studied Journalism and Media Communications at Griffith College Dublin, gaining a degree in that subject. He began his career as editor of "The Bike Buyers Guide", before moving into radio where he worked at Ireland's Newstalk 106-108. He was a regular on-air contributor to Moncrieff, before establishing himself as a sports reporter. He has appeared on both Off The Ball and The Weekend Sports Show, and was a host of 98FM's current affairs programme The Inbox for three years.

On television, Connolly has appeared on Setanta Sports, providing coverage of the Pro14 both as a presenter and reporter, and first joined TV3 as host of The All Ireland County Quiz. His documentary series, Paul Connolly Investigates is aired on TV3 and has looked at a diverse range of topics, including benefit fraud, bogus marriages, and the subcultures of swinging and dogging in Ireland. In 2015 he started hosting Undercover Benefits Cheat on Channel 5.

In 2016, Connolly hosted Season 1 of the documentary series Inside the World's Toughest Prisons, which aired on Channel 5. As part of the documentary, he spent a few days in prisons in Honduras, Poland, Mexico, and the Philippines.

References

  1. ^ "Paul Connolly Investigates-mini bio". TV3. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  2. "For Better, No, Worse". Herald.ie. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  3. Horan, Niamh (4 March 2012). "Swinging sex clubs attracting society's elites". Sunday Independent. Independent.ie. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  4. Doyle, Diarmuid (16 August 2011). "Last night's TV: Bogus Beggars". Independent.ie. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  5. "Ireland's Dole Cheats: Fiddling the System". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  6. Corner, Natalie (12 August 2015). "Benefit cheats sell fake steroids made 'chemical cowboys' in money-making scam". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  7. "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons". Channel 5. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  8. Harding, Nick (10 February 2016). "Inside The World's Toughest Prisons: Paul Connolly spent time in Poland's Piotrkow for Channel 5 series". The Independent. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
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