Kirsty Young board' stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs", replacing Sue Lawley; she began on 1 October 2006. According to the odds given by bookmaker William Hill she was an outsider for the job at 20/1. She returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Five News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor. On 29 August 2007, she presented her last show for Five News. On 29 September 2007,
Mairead Farrell (radio presenter) subsequently changed her surname and now goes by "Mairead Ronan". Mairead has three children, a son, Dara from her first marriage to Fitzpatrick whom she had when she was 26 and two daughters, Eliza and Bonnie from her second marriage to Ronan. Mairead Farrell (radio presenter) Mairead Ronan (born 3 April 1980; née Farrell) is an Irish television and radio presenter. Mairead was born in Finglas on the Northside of Dublin. She attended a HR Management course after leaving school, but switched to a media course at Ballyfermot College of Further Education. Ronan was featured on "The Ray D'Arcy Show"