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Irish broadcaster Nuala McGovern is set to join the presenting line-up on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
The BBC announced that Nuala will present the popular programme from Monday to Wednesday each week from May 13, replacing Emma Barnett.
Nuala, who has had a career spanning three decades in journalism, previously hosted the programme in 2023 to cover Barnett's maternity leave.
In her 20 years with the BBC, she has established herself as one of the leading presenters on the World Service.
She has reported for the broadcaster from more than 30 countries and at many important events including at both the funeral of the late Queen and the coronation of the King.
Nuala McGovern (pictured) has been appointed a permanent host of BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour
Nuala’s 20-year career in TV and radio has taken her around the world to cover some of the most important stories in recent history
Nuala met her husband Tristan Agates, who was a banker, while she was in the Big Apple. He is now a gardener at Kew Gardens (Pair pictured together)
The presenter said being chosen as the next presenter of Woman's Hour 'fills me with joy'.
She added: 'It is a real privilege to present this extraordinary programme. I'm looking forward to working with the superb Woman's Hour team on the rigorous journalism expected on women's issues but also making time for escapism and fun.
In her career, McGovern has reported for BBC from more than 30 countries
'I'm especially looking forward to getting back to the Woman's Hour listeners, I have missed them.'
It all started for Nuala back in Dublin in the 1980s. Her father was a publican and owned the Goblet pub in Artane, which is now run by her two brothers and sister-in-law.
Meanwhile, her uncle owned McGovern's pub in Drumcondra, which later became Quinn's pub. She also worked as an ice cream server, a handbag seller and a cocktail waitress.
She later studied English and Italian at University College Dublin and then taught English in Italy.
Afterwards, she started her journalism career and moved to New York where she got a job as a researcher and producer on an Irish community radio programme, the Adrian Flanelly Show.
The presenter later joined the Brian Lehrer Show which is broadcast on WNYC, New York's public radio station.
The journalist has won multiple awards for her reporting including a Peabody Award
After 13 years in New York, she moved to London to join the BBC in 2009.
Explaining the early part of her career, she said: 'I was in my early twenties and I hadn't really considered America. I felt it was going to be something like Wall Street, financial and that type of life.
'When I got there, I found a different picture of New York and how amazing and alternative it was and loved it.'
She met her husband Tristan Agates, who was a banker, while she was in the Big Apple. He is now a gardener at Kew Gardens.
A stand-out moment was when she was one of the few journalists to be invited to visit Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which houses ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists.
The BBC Journalist flew via Washington DC, first to interview politicians there about the controversial base before travelling to Florida.
She said of in the interview: 'We went to this unmarked gate and we get on a plane that brings you to Guantanamo. Nobody in the airport would know where you were going, just the flight number, no destination.
'So we got to see everything, when we went in, the area where they do forced feeding, for example, that they have to do if people are on hunger strike. They showed us all the equipment, which was quite chilling in a way.'
Nuala also got to visit eastern Ukraine shortly after the annexation of
