Rick O'Shea
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- This article is about the radio personality. For the comic strip, see Rick O'Shay.
Rick O'Shea | |
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 Rick O'Shea in January 2009 | |
| Born | Paul Crossan May 1973 (age 50) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | UCD |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
| Employer | RTÉ |
| Known for | Daytime Radio Show |
| Height | 5' 9.5" |
| Website | Personal weblog |
Paul Crossan (born on 7 May 1973; assigned Rick O'Shea at the age of 20 while working for the now defunct longwave pop music station Atlantic 252) is an Irish radio personality. He was born in Drimnagh, Dublin 12, and attended Drimnagh Castle CBS and later UCD. He has been a presenter on RTÉ 2fm since 2001.[1][2] O'Shea has also presented The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 since January 2015.[3]
Activities
O'Shea was known amongst Ireland's blogging community and founder of his own blog. In April 2006, he hosted the inaugural Irish Blog Awards, and has regularly presented the annual Irish Web Awards and Irish Social Media Awards ceremonies. In 2010, he announced his permanent retirement from blogging but does use Twitter.
Before joining RTÉ 2fm in 2001, he had worked for East Coast Radio,[4] Atlantic 252 and FM 104.[5] O'Shea presented the weekday afternoon show on 2fm until 2015, when the show was moved to the weekend schedule.[6][7]
He began presenting The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 in January 2015.[8]
Rick also presents the 2XM new music show "Dawn of The Deadly" Wednesdays at 7pm repeated Fridays at 11am and Sundays at 4pm.[citation needed]
O'Shea was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 16.[9] and has been a patron of Brainwave, the Irish Epilepsy Association since 2006.[10] He represented the charity in an Irish celebrity version of the quiz show Mastermind in 2012, winning the competition.[11][12]
Awards and nominations
O'Shea has been nominated for Best Irish Radio DJ at the Meteor Music Awards on three occasions, in 2002,[13] 2008[citation needed] and 2009.[14] O'Shea has also been nominated for 3 PPI National Radio Awards, winning a bronze award in 2011. In 2009 he was winner of Entertainment.ie's "Sexiest Radio Voice" award and was quoted as saying "This is the first thing I've ever won in 16 years of being a broadcaster. I am thus very excited and hideously embarrassed at the same time. Thanks."
Trivia
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- On Monday 28 May 2007, while interviewing actor and singer Jason Donovan on his radio show, he mentioned Donovan's previous role as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. O'Shea then spoke of his part as narrator in the play as a 16-year-old where he stood at the side of the stage wearing a stick-on beard.
- On Thursday 24 July 2008, while guest hosting The Gerry Ryan Show on RTÉ 2FM, he became the first Irish DJ to use a live Twitterstream as a back channel on national radio.
- The late Richard Whiteley noted that he would have called himself Rick O'Shea if he had been an Irish DJ after a contestant made up the word ricochet on the Channel 4 game show Countdown.
- On 24 March 2011, Rick posed the question to the nation "What questions would an Irish Citizenship Test include?" The topic later became a global trend on Twitter under the hash tag #citizenshiptest.
- In May 2011, Andrea Corr, former lead singer with The Corrs, gave a special on air concert during the show. After her performance O'Shea presented her with a birthday cake as she had recently celebrated her 37th birthday.
- The name "Rick O'Shea" was assigned to him when he first began working for national UK radio station Atlantic 252 at the age of 20. It is a play on the word "Ricochet." When Rick moved to FM104 and later RTÉ 2FM he retained the name. O'Shea worked at East Coast Radio and South East Radio under his real name.
References
- ^ Una Mullally (17 January 2013). "PopLives #29: Rick O'Shea". Irish Times.
- ^ Jonathan deBurca Butler (22 January 2015). "Rick O'Shea gets well-versed in poetry for new programme". Irish Examiner.
- ^ Rosita Boland (22 January 2015). "Rick O'Shea: an unversed choice for RTÉ's new poetry show". Irish Times.
- ^ "PAPER PROPHET Rick O'Shea". Irish Independent. 20 August 2006.
- ^ Melanie Finn (4 February 2009). "We're still friends says 2fm's Rick as he splits from wife". Herald.ie.
- ^ "Rick O'Shea's 2FM radio show is moving to the weekend". TheJournal.ie. 28 August 2015.
- ^ "Rick O'Shea moves to 2fm weekends with Cormac Battle". Hot Press. 28 August 2015.
- ^ Aoife Kelly (12 January 2015). "2FM DJ Rick O'Shea to present new Poetry Programme on RTE Radio 1". Irish Independent.
- ^ "DJ Rick O'Shea reveals his battle with epilepsy and says he won't be beaten by it". Irish Independent. 3 July 2012.
- ^ Hilary Fennell (10 August 2014). "This much I know: Rick O'Shea". Irish Examiner.
- ^ "O'Shea wins Celebrity Mastermind". Breakingnews.ie. 23 July 2012.
- ^ "How would you do in the Mastermind chair? Take the test". The Daily Edge. 23 July 2012.
- ^ "2FM DJs up for Meteor Awards". RTÉ. 1 March 2002.
- ^ "Meteor Music Awards nominees revealed". RTÉ. 29 January 2009.