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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Colette Fitzpatrick<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974|06}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Holycross]], [[Thurles]], [[County Tipperary]], Ireland<br />
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|nationality = Irish<br />
|education = Journalism<br />
|alma_mater = [[Dublin Institute of Technology]] (DIT)<br />
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|occupation = News anchor<br />
|employer = [[Virgin Media Television (Republic of Ireland)|Virgin Media Television]]<br />
|partner = Niall McDermott<br />
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'''Colette Fitzpatrick''' (born 25 June 1974) is one of the main [[News presenter|news anchors]] at [[Virgin Media News]] (formerly known as "TV3 News"), since September 2006.<ref name="midday">{{cite news | url= http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4281506&tpl=archnews | title= TV3's Colette Fitzpatrick Talks 'Midday' TV Presenting | publisher=[[Irish Film and Television Network]] | date= 18 September 2008 | accessdate=25 February 2010}}</ref><ref name="anchor">{{cite news | url= http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4279814&tpl=archnews&force=1 | title= Colette Fitzpatrick Is TV3 News Anchor | publisher=[[Irish Film and Television Network]] | date= 14 September 2006 | accessdate=25 February 2010}}</ref> She is a native of [[Holycross]], [[Thurles]], [[County Tipperary]].<ref name="from">{{cite news | url= https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-136099396 | title= THE TV3 DREAM TEAM-Meet the three beauties who have us switching on to channel's news. | newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]] | date= 13 September 2005 | accessdate=25 February 2010}}("Colette, 31, from Thurles, Co Tipperary")</ref><br />
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Fitzpatrick is a Virgin Media News anchor. She presents the weekday bulletins: ''News at 12.30'' and ''[[Virgin Media News at 5.30|News at 5.30]]''. She has also hosted the prime time current affairs show ''Midweek''.<br />
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Fitzpatrick began working in the TV3 newsroom in March 2001. She has edited and anchored bulletins for the morning news programme ''[[Ireland AM]]'' and also reported on a range issues for the main evening news. She reported from Kashmir on the aftermath of the earthquake. She was also a regular stand-in as main presenter on ''Ireland AM'' alongside [[Mark Cagney]], Alan Hughes and [[Aidan Cooney]].<br />
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Fizpatrick previously worked in the newsroom in [[Today FM]] where she edited and presented hourly bulletins and reported on a range of stories including courts and tribunals. She produced ''The Sunday Supplement'', presented by Sam Smyth, and also previously worked at [[East Coast FM]] in [[County Wicklow]] where she first began her broadcasting career. Colette graduated in journalism from DIT in Aungier Street.<ref name=Personally>{{cite web |url=https://www.personallyspeakingbureau.com/speaker/colette-fitzpatrick/ |title=Colette Fitzpatrick – Personally Speaking Bureau|accessdate=9 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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Fitzpatrick is married to studio director Niall McDermot. In June 2010, Fitzpatrick confirmed that she was expecting her first child, due in November.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0628/fitzpatrickc.html|title=Colette Fitzpatrick confirms pregnancy|date=28 June 2010|accessdate=28 June 2010|work=RTÉ Ten}}</ref> Son Milo was born on 18 November 2010, but it was a nightmare birth as chronicled by Fitzpatrick herself.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/colette-going-private-for-baby-no2-after-hse-crisis-2971325.html|title=Colette going private for baby No2 after HSE crisis|date=22 December 2011|accessdate=22 December 2011|first=Melanie|last=Finn|work=Evening Herald}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1974 births]]<br />
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