Shelagh Fogarty

Shelagh Fogarty is a popular TV and radio presenter and journalist, currently presenting the afternoon show LBC, weekdays from 13:00 until 1600 where she has an audience reach of 1.2 million listeners.

 

During her career Shelagh has interviewed the country's top politicians, sports stars, musicians, and actors. She also excels at live outside broadcast, covering some of the biggest world events internationally and across the UK. including anchoring coverage of the American presidential elections, broadcasting live from St Peters Square in Rome for the funeral of Pope John Paul II and covering the devastation of the Boxing Day tsunami from Thailand. 

 

A compassionate and thoughtful journalist, Shelagh was invited to cover the live service at Anfield marking the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy and was a reporter on the James Bulger murder trial and the Madrid train bombings. 

 

With her intelligent, sometimes irreverent sense of humour, Shelagh has a knack for making politics and hard-hitting news stories accessible to the widest possible audience. There’s also 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 that an intruder had hidden himself in the cathedral organ for days to film Rocco Ritchie's christening. Not opposed to roughing it in the name of broadcasting, Shelagh camped overnight in an Essex field with over 40,000 scouts for the World Scout Jamboree.

 

An experienced presenter and writer, Shelagh has been a guest reporter for ITV on Tonight, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, This Morning and BBC’s The One Show. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Total Politics and The Tablet.

 

Shelagh is an accomplished and engaging speaker and corporate event host.  With years of live radio broadcasting under her belt, there are few situations, guests or audiences that might phase her. She has an endless supply of anecdotes to share.