Marty Whelan Biography
Marty Whelan is a radio and television personality in Ireland who presently works for Raidió Teilifs Éireann (RTÉ). His early television credits include the game series Millionaire, Fame and Fortune, and Open House, which aired on weekday afternoons.
How old is Marty Whelan? – Age
He is 67 years old as of 7 June 2023. He was born in 1956 in Dublin, Ireland.
Marty Whelan
He was the only child in the family.
Marty Whelan Wife
He is married to Maria Whelan. They have two kids. The pair met in 1974 and dated for more than ten years before marrying on August 13, 1985. Maria left her employment as an Irish air hostess with Aer Lingus after their marriage, while they were both living at home.
Marty Whelan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Marty Whelan Show
In the summer of 2005, Whelan filled in for Gerry Ryan on his morning radio program on RTÉ 2fm, which led to a more regular return to the station. Marty in the Morning debuted on September 26, 2005, following the demise of The Rick & Ruth Breakfast Show. Marty in the Morning was announced to cease in March 2007 when Colm and Jim-Jim joined from FM104. He was on vacation when he learned that another show had been cancelled. When Gerry Ryan went on leave, Whelan took over as his replacement.
Marty Whelan Winning Streak
In September 2009, he returned to television to co-host Winning Streak with Kathryn Thomas. He’s been doing it since then. Winning Streak is a game show on Irish television. Between 1990 and 2020, the show aired weekly on RTÉ One in Ireland. In typical episodes, competitors compete in a variety of activities to win automobiles, vacations, and cash prizes worth up to €500,000.
Marty Whelan Career
In 1979, Whelan joined RTÉ Radio 2, presently known as RTÉ 2fm. Before that, he dealt with privateer radio under the name Marty Corridor. During his most memorable residency with the station, he introduced various shows like Drivetime and Marty till 12 PM. He likewise endured three years introducing RTÉ 2fm’s Morning Meal Show in a job he would get back to in 2005.
During the 1980s Whelan started fostering his TV vocation, turning into the main male moderator of the hit design program Head 2 Toe. Other famous Network programs followed, remembering the Where for the World? test program (1987-1989) and Video Document (1983-1989), in which he talked with significant stars of the music world.
In 1989, Whelan left RTÉ radio to join its adversary radio broadcast, Century Radio. At the point when that task bombed he was treated with complete disdain by RTÉ. Whelan got back to the public telecaster during the 1990s when he introduced such shows as Put it all on the line, In Private, and Tycoon. He facilitated RTÉ One’s late spring lottery show Acclaim and Fortune on Saturday evenings for somewhere around a decade. He burned through a decade on TV as moderator of the John Player Tops.
In 1997, Whelan became Speaker at the yearly Rose of Tralee challenge yet, in the first of a progression of misfortunes, he was supplanted by Ryan Tubridy in 2003. Yet again in 2004, RTÉ’s lead evening magazine program Open House was cut out, leaving Whelan jobless. Whelan played filled the part of co-have close by Mary Kennedy beginning around 1998. He was accounted for to be “stunned” and “extremely disheartened”. He likewise said he would “by and by convey each duplicate” of Mary Kennedy’s new book Paper Tigers, thinking, “Sure I have nothing else to do with my time”. From that point forward Whelan has shown up as himself in highlight films, at the co-opening of a Dunnes outlet in Galway with resigned telecaster Gay Byrne and filling an appearance job (again as himself) on the drama, Fair City. He actually commentates on RTÉ’s TV inclusion of the Eurovision Melody Challenge each May.
Whelan gave a two-hour Sunday Marty Whelan show on RTÉ verse fm from Sunday, 1 Walk 2009 at 14:30, taking over from veteran telecaster Gay Byrne, yet just until that September. In July 2009, Whelan gave editorial on the Michael Jackson dedication administration for RTÉ Two. Following on from Sunday with Marty Whelan, he accepted his own work day noon show on verse fm, Marty at Late morning, beginning September 2009. That very month, he started co-introducing Series of wins on RTÉ One every Saturday night, close by Sinead Kennedy.
As of October 2010 Whelan presents Marty In the first part of the day work day mornings somewhere in the range of 7 and 10 on RTÉ Verse FM. His later TV programs separated from Series of wins were in summer 2009 he introduced a series called Somewhat Entertaining followed by A Tad Eurovision in summer 2011.