iD, The Cafe, Winning Streak, Fame and Fortune, The Trump Card, The Big Money Game, Ireland AM
Laura Woods (born 12 May 1977) is an Irish television presenter and radio host.
Career
Whilst in her third year at Trinity, Woods began her broadcasting career by working as a continuity announcer on RTÉ Radio. In 1999, she presented the Breakfast Show on Trinity FM. She joined RTÉ Television as a continuity announcer in 2000.
Moving from continuity announcing in September 2002, Woods became the face of iD[1] (renamed iD Two in late 2004) and remained there until May 2005. In 2004 she began co-presenting three series of The Cafe with Aidan Power. Woods anchored RTÉ's coverage of the Festival of World Cultures in 2005 and 2006, and joined Dave Fanning in Hyde Park to cover Live8 in July 2005. In September 2005, she began hosting SMS, but left the show to concentrate on presenting the Irish National Lotterygame showWinning Streak from January–March 2006 while regular presenter Derek Mooney was presenting You're a Star.[2]
Woods has since moved to independent station Virgin Media Television in 2011, where she was a panellist on the Midday programme, and she co-presented the breakfast show Ireland AM.[5] She was made redundant in 2021 after Ireland AM got new presenters.[6]