The Big Interview: Anchorman Molloy ready to go mainstream

Tomorrow evening, Joe Molloy will take the next step in a lauded but relatively low-key career when he debuts as anchor of TV3’s Six Nations coverage. Even his dad has told him this one is huge so he is nervous, anxious not to ‘make a balls of it’, but also determined to trust the instincts that have made him a three-time radio sports broadcaster of the year.

The voice will be familiar to quite a few of you but the face won’t be to most. Which is much of the appeal of Joe Molloy to TV3, if part of the trepidation for the man himself. When unveiling the station’s lineup for its inaugural coverage of the Six Nations, executive producer Niall Cogley spoke about how their choice of anchor was “a bit of a statement”.

“We think he is a real talent for the future,” Cogley would elaborate.