Derek Mooney isIrish radio and television personality as well as a radio producer.

Mooney is one of Ireland's best-known television personalities and is one of Ireland's most prolific broadcasters in the area of natural history. He has presented Habitats, The Nature Line, Nature Trails and Mooney Goes Wild On One, all for RTÉ Radio 1. The latter programme won first Prize at the Prix Europa Radio and TV Awards in October 2000 for a unique program about nesting Jackdaws called Jackie and Daw with Vincent Hyland. The following month Mooney won a second award - the ESB Millennium Environment Award - for the best item during the year on the environment in print, radio or television. His television shows on the natural history world include Wildtrials on RTÉ and Nature Detectives for the BBC. RTÉ Radio 1 dates back to January 1st 1926, when the Dublin radio station 2RN began broadcasting on a regular basis. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jackie and Daw was a video/radio documentary documentary by Vincent Hyland that followed a pair of nesting Jackdaws, named Jackie (male) and Daw (female), over a period of two years. ... The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) (Bord Soláthair an Leictreachais in Irish), sometimes called ESB Ireland to differentiate it from US utilities, is responsible for generating and transmitting most of the electricity in the Republic of Ireland. ... Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; Irish for Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. ... Nature Detectives is an online phenology research and education project for 4-18 year-olds in the UK. It is run by the Woodland Trust, as part of the UK Phenology Network. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ...

His other television credits include being a co-presenter of RTÉ children's television shows Echo Island and TX. Following the retirement of Mike Murphy in 2002 he became the presenter of the hugely popular Winning Streak, a Saturday night game show but was temporarily replaced by Laura Woods while he presented You're A Star. In addition to all of this Mooney has also presented and produced RTÉ's Liveline, and some religious and daily magazine programmes. Echo Island was an Irish television programme for children and young adults, shown on RTÉ Network 2. ... For other people see Michael Murphy Mike Murphy (born October 20, 1941) was an Irish television and radio broadcaster with the national station, Radio Telefís Éireann. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Winning Streak is an Irish game show, shown live on Saturday nights on RTÉ One, and funded by the An Post National Lottery Company. ... Youre A Star is a singing contest in Ireland, created by Screentime ShinAwiL and Radio Telefís Éireann. ... Liveline is an RTÉ radio interview and phone-in chat show. ...