John Toal is a BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 3 presenter.
A native of Newry he has been a radio presenter since 1989, shortly after he left Queen's University, Belfast where he read for a degree in music.[1]
His Saturday morning radio programme won a gold award at the 2015 Phonographic Performance Ireland (PPI) Radio Awards and another gold award at the 2016 Celtic Media Festival.[1]
On television he has presented Trad Ar Fad! and the BBC NI Last Night of the Proms.[2] [3]