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Presenter Zainab Boladale: ‘I’m embedded in youth culture and I reflect that in what I do on Nationwide’

She “missed the memo” when, fresh out of college, Zainab Boladale turned up at an audition for RTÉ children’s news show, news2day, wearing trainers, jeans and a Penneys top, with her hair in coloured braids. Her talent shone through all the same and this “little Clare girl” landed the gig. Five years on, and today Boladale is injecting the cool into Nationwide with her zeitgeisty reporting style — and turning the TikTok generation on to the TV show their grannies love.

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Presenter Zainab Boladale: ‘I’m embedded in youth culture and I reflect that in what I do on Nationwide’

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