NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ Clodagh Lawlor has landed a new country music show on Today FM.
Country Music Hits is one of the five new shows now part of Today FM’s weekday schedule with Clare’s very own Clodagh Lawlor behind the mic for the show which airs every Wednesday from 10pm to 12am.
Also part of the new line-up is Ciara Revins, a former breakfast show presenter on Clare FM. Now based in Cork, she is presenting Today FM Chilled on Mondays from 10pm to 12am.
In 2022, Clodagh was named as the new female country artist of the year at the 2022 Hot Country TV Music Awards while in May 2019 she was in the national spotlight when she was announced as the winner of the Late Late Show’s search for a country music star.
Clodagh previously presented her own country music show on Clare FM from April 2022 to December 2023 and also fronted a weekend music show for Live95FM. She graduated from the Today FM School of Radio and recently featured on Matt Cooper’s ‘The Last Word’ where she was a guest for the ‘Culture Club’ segment.
Speaking to The Clare Echo, Clodagh said it was “so surreal” to be presenting a show on the national airwaves. “I still can’t believe it when I go online and I see my face on the Today FM website. It is such an amazing opportunity, if anything I’m so thankful to Today FM for believing in me, for believing in country music and letting us play country music on national radio more than anything because that is not something you hear on radio every day, I’m so delighted that they chose me to represent that, when I say that out loud it is huge”.
She continued, “I never thought that I’d be working with Today FM firstly and secondly I never thought that I’d be working at Today FM as a country music presenter but I can guarantee you that this show is going to be big. There’s so many country music artists coming to Ireland, in the past I’ve got to interview Lainey Wilson, Midlands, Zach Bryan, for a show I had on Clare FM, they are going to be coming back to Ireland and I can guarantee you that they are going to be on Today FM and we’re really going to showcase country music for what it is, please God as well not just the American country music artists but also try generate the movement of country music in Ireland that you can be a country music artists and sing your own songs and be like the pop artists in Ireland, that is what I want to do.
“I want to try generate that movement if I can in the most positive way but as well having Today FM behind me and knowing they believe in me. I was on the Dave Moore Show last week and hearing him talk about country music, he played my song that I wrote with all my passion about country music and knowing he played my song on the radio I could not believe it so I said to myself ‘Clodagh you are going the right way here, there is something happening and you have to stick at it. I’m so excited for it, it’s going to be cool because country music is cool again. On top of it all, I’m a proud Clare woman up there talking about country music and we’ve got to see where it goes now”.
