Ronan Clarke

He worked as a production assistant, researcher, presenter and producer. He was the young European journalist of the year in 1996. He also produced other Irish language programmes for TG4 and GAA magazine programmes, before he left the media world to retrain as a primary school teacher. He returned to his native Mayo to teach and started a family with his wife Sinead, with whom he had three daughters, Aoibhinn , Saorla and Méabh. Ronan was also an accomplished sportsman, captaining his local club Killala to a Connacht Junior Championship in 2006. His father Sean is well known within farming circles through his involvement at local and national level in Macra na Feirme, the IFA and Connacht Gold.