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Shelagh can currently be heard co hosting the Radio 5 Live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell.  Having co hosted the show for the last 4 years Shelagh has interviewed the country's top politicians, sports stars, musicians and actors and covered some of the biggest events across the UK including broadcasting live from East London the morning after the city won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics.  With her irreverent sense of humour Shelagh makes politics and the most hard hitting news stories accessible to a mass audience.

After gaining a Degree from Durham University in Spanish, French and Portuguese Shelagh then started her career with the BBC as a Broadcast Journalist, she trained across Britain reporting and producing for various BBC Radio and TV regions including Radio Four and BBC North West with programmes from The World at One, PM, Sunday Service and Euronews.

Whilst at the BBC Shelagh anchored the extensive coverage of the American Presidential Elections, broadcast live from St Peter's Square in Rome for the funeral of Pope John Paul 2^nd and travelled to Thailand to cover the devastation from the Boxing Day Tsunami.  A compassionate and thoughtful journalist, Shelagh was asked to cover the live 20^th Anniversary service at Anfield for the Hillsborough tragedy, the James Bulger murder trial and he Madrid train bombings.

As always there is a lighter side to life and Shelagh knows how to enjoy it.  She had great fun covering not only Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie but also exclusively breaking the story for Five Live that an intruder had hidden himself in the cathedral organ for days to film Rocco Ritchie's christening.  Not opposed to roughing it and all in the name of broadcasting, Shelagh has also camped overnight in an Essex field with over 40 thousand scouts for the World Scout Jamboree! More recently. Shelagh participated in the BBC's Sports Relief campaign by swimming a mile in the vastly unpleasant waters of the Serpentine in Hyde Park.

An experienced presenter and writer, Shelagh has been a guest reporter for ITV on Tonight with Trevor McDonald and presented for BBC North West.  She is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Total Politics and The Tablet.

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Shelagh Fogarty is co-host of Sony Award winning BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, and is also currently enjoying a successful run as Andrew Neil's partner in crime on Daily Politics for BBC2. She is a radio and print journalist who is a regular contributor to publications such as the Daily Telegraph.

Having been born and bred in Liverpool, Shelagh still maintains very strong connections to the North West, where she worked at BBC Radio Merseyside in the early days of her broadcasting career and also with the Mersey Partnership to promote the area. Shelagh comes from a big Irish family (she is one of 7 siblings) and so also has very strong connections to Ireland.

After a year spent in Barcelona, and many returns to Spain since, Shelagh is fluent in Spanish. She also studied languages at Durham University, and in addition to speaking Spanish, has a basic knowledge of both French and Portuguese.

Shelagh is a trustee of the De Paul Trust, a charity that works with young people who are homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged. In addition to that, Shelagh is also a supporter of Women @ The Well, which is a charity formed to help vulnerable women who have been sexually exploited through prostitution, and who have experienced sexual trafficking.

Shelagh is a great speaker, quick witted, humourous, sharp, warm and incredibly intelligent. She's happy to talk about all aspects of her professional life, both on-screen and on-air. 

• Awards host and on-stage interviewer
• Facilitator
• Business networking events
• Debate mediator

Previous engagements include charing a debate on internet usage at the House of Commons, speaker at the Ormond Historical Society in Ireland, and a regular speaker at the BBC College of Journalism.