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Darragh Culhane

Inside RTE host Joanne Cantwell's family life including partner and kids

The Sunday Game may be over but that does not mean Joanne Cantwell will not grace our screens.

The popular TV host is set to be a regular for RTE's World Cup coverage.

Cantwell will take up hosting duties alongside the likes of Peter Collins for the duration of the World Cup.

Here is everything you need to know about her.

Who is Joanne Cantwell?

Joanne, aged in her early 40s, is a sports journalist and broadcaster from Dublin.

She studied in DCU before working in FM104 and TV3 before her big move to RTE.

Outside of work, Joanne's life revolves around bringing up her two young daughters Emmy and Alex with husband Shay in Kildare.

Mum to two kids

Joanne Cantwell has said that her two daughters, Emmy and Alex, are not massive GAA fans like her.

But The Sunday Game frontwoman is not surprised because none of her four sisters followed sport growing up, it was just her and her father.

She joked that introducing football and hurling with her husband Shay has been a slow burner at home with the youngsters.

Joanne told RSVP Live: "I am trying to get them to become massive GAA fans, if they want to.

"I grew up with four sisters and none of them had any interest in sport, so it was my father and I against five others, my sister and my mother, at home. I am used to having to fight the fight."

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