Best known for his stand-up comedy and hosting shows like Mock the Week and The Panel, Dara Ó Briain has quite the interesting background.
The 50-year-old was born in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland. He was adopted at a young age and studied at UCD, where he was both the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university's oldest debating society) and the co-founder and co-editor of The University Observer college newspaper.
In 1994, he won the Irish Times National Debating Championship and The Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish language debating championship; he is a fluent Irish speaker, and speaks to his father only in that language. As well as his Irish skills, He played both Gaelic football and hurling for Bray Emmets and hurling for the Wicklow County minor team. Did we mention he also writes?
