Meet Emer O'Neill, the new presenter on RTÉ's Today show

Rowena Walsh meets Emer O’Neill, as she joins Dáithí Ó Sé on RTÉ’s afternoon show

Today Presenter Emer O’Neill. Picture: Andres Poveda

EMER O’Neill says she’s a lucky woman. The new co-host of RTÉ’s Today show was wracked with nerves before she made her first appearance on the live programme back in May. She was filling in as one of several guest presenters during Sinead Kennedy’s maternity leave.

O’Neill couldn’t sleep and couldn’t eat, but then presenter Dáithí Ó Sé walked into her dressing room and all her nerves disappeared. “I think if I’d have had my first live show experience with anybody else, it could have been very different.