Lynette Fay is a freelance broadcaster, producer and newspaper columnist. A graduate of NUI, Galway and fluent Irish speaker, she began her professional career working on Irish language programmes in BBC Northern Ireland. Lynette has vast experience presenting and producing both live and documentary strands across television and radio and is well known as a champion of local voices, local music and stories.
She has worked as a presenter and producer with TG4 and RTÉ and has produced documentary series for television with independent companies for TG4/BBC – including Píobairí Ard Mhacha –the story of the pioneering Armagh Pipers’ Club. Based in Belfast, Lynette currently anchors the BBC Radio Ulster afternoon show The Lynette Fay Show, produces and presents the station’s flagship folk and traditional music programme, Folk Club and writes a weekly column for the Irish News.