Kate Smith

Kate Smith (b. Belleek, County Fermanagh) is a former Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. Broadcasting career Smith began her broadcasting career at Downtown Radio as a newsreader and reporter. She later worked as a presenter and reporter for RTÉ in 1980 and moved to UTV in 1983. Smith hosted her last edition of UTV Live in December 2006. She was appointed a board member of Northern Ireland Screen in December 2007. Personal life Before her broadcasting career, Smith studied sociology and psychology at Queen's University, Belfast and took a postgraduate course in sociology at University College Dublin. Her first journalism work was as an agony aunt for the Sunday News paper.