Zainab Boladale

Zainab Boladale is a journalist, television presenter and public speaker. She was born in Nigeria and raised in Ireland. In 2017, she made her TV debut on RTÉ’s children’s programme, news2day, as the first Afro-Irish woman on Irish TV news. On news2day, she presented stories from around the world to the young people of Ireland. Zainab now travels around the country as a presenter and reporter for Ireland’s long-running factual feature programme, Nationwide. She has also written and directed her first short film, Worthy, released in 2023. Her first book Braids Take A Day was published by The O’Brien Press in August 2024 and is shortlisted for the Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year Award in the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards