Adrian Logan
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Adrian Logan (b. 1 August 1955, Dungannon) is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. He is currently Sports Editor, and a sports presenter and reporter for UTV Live.
Adrian, affectionately known as "Logie" by his colleagues and often by interviewees, has worked as a sports journalist at Ulster Television since 1985. Before he joined UTV, he worked as a reporter for Scene Around Six and Inside Ulster, BBC Northern Ireland's evening news bulletins, from 1984 to 1985.
Adrian has reported on events across Ireland and around the world, including the Northern Ireland national football team and the Republic of Ireland national football team's progress in qualifying for and participating in FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship tournaments. He has also reported on the progress of Irish Football League clubs, as well as Derry City FC, in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup tournaments. Adrian has also presented, reported and commentated on the Milk Cup tournament. He went on to host a weekly soccer magazine series, The Football Show, for UTV in 2005.
Adrian is a keen Gaelic Athletic Association supporter (he supports his native county Tyrone) and has been UTV's principal reporter on all aspects of GAA sports. When UTV obtained the rights to show matches and highlights of the Ulster Senior Football Championship from 1994 to 1997, Adrian presented UTV's weekly highlights programme, The Gaelic Game, and from 2001 to 2004, he was the main host and reporter for UTV's weekly GAA magazine series, End to End.
Adrian is also involved in UTV's coverage of motorsports. He has presented and reported on UTV's live coverage and higlights of the annual North West 200, and he has also reported and presented from the Isle of Man TT. Adrian was also the presenter of UTV's separate coverage of Ireland's matches in the Rugby World Cup in 2003 and 2007.
In addition to sporting events, Adrian also presented UTV's live coverage of the funerals of two of Northern Ireland's most famous sportsmen, Joey Dunlop in 2000, and George Best in 2005.
Adrian is also a regular presenter of the sports segment of UTV News and Sport on Saturday afternoons, and Sport on Sunday on Sunday evenings.
He was a founder member of the Ulster GAA Writer's Association in 1988.[1]
Adrian is married and has three children.