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Martin 'Marty' Whelan (born 7 June 1956) is a Jacob's Award-winning Irish radio and television personality currently working for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Frequently seen and heard on RTÉ radio and television, he has presented a variety of shows. Whelan's early television credits included his own gameshows, ''Millionaire'' and ''Fame and Fortune'', as well as the weekday afternoon show, ''Open House''. Whelan was master of ceremonies at The Rose of Tralee contest until Ryan Tubridy replaced him in 2003, a role which Whelan had held since 1997. His RTÉ 2fm radio show, ''Marty in the Morning'' was axed in 2007 and replaced with ''The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show''. Whelan has since made a return to television, winning the reality series ''Celebrity Bainisteoir'' in 2008. Since winning the series, he has made another return to television to guest-host the RTÉ One topical comedy show ''The Panel''. He also acted as guest judge in RTÉ's ''Charity You're a Star'', standing in for Louis Walsh in one programme. ''Marty at Midday'' saw Whelan receive his own weekday lunchtime show on RTÉ lyric fm, commencing September 2009. He then returned to television again in September 2009 to co-present ''Winning Streak'' with Kathryn Thomas. He has been doing this ever since. He closes the shows, and his previous show Fame and Fortune, with the phrase: "How do you play? You buy a ticket!" Since 2000, Whelan has provided the television commentary for RTÉ's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, although Whelan provided the Irish commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest 1987. ==Early life== Whelan was born in Dublin in 1956. An only child, he was overprotected by his parents but was always surrounded by other children. He later commented on his childhood, "I had cousins, friends constantly to play with -- my memories are all in the company of children." Whelan attended school in Killester. He spent five years working with an insurance company before he made the break into radio with the pirate radio station Radio Dublin. Left this station as part of a split along with most of the DJs to form the Big D in April 1978 - Whelan still working on weekend shows, but in a new schedule in September 1978 he got his first daytime slot doing the drivetime show each evening which rather established him with the car bound audience. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marty Whelan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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