Sports broadcaster Gráinne McElwain is the face of Sky Sport’s GAA coverage but while the Monaghan native always had a keen interest in sport, it’s by chance that she ended up taking the plunge and making a career out of her passion.
Gráinne was working as a secondary school teacher in Dublin when, having forgotten her notes for class one day, she picked up a copy of an Irish-language newspaper — and the rest, as they say, is history.
Gráinne told the Irish Daily Star : “I taught history and Irish in Monaghan and then I taught in Castleknock Community School in Dublin for a couple of years and I loved teaching — but I was just like, I don’t know if it’s something I can do for the rest of my life.
