Sarah Mulkerrins

Sports Journalist and Broadcaster

Sarah Mulkerrins is an Irish sports broadcaster, known mostly for her work over the last decade on BBC TV and radio, where she has covered Summer and Winter Olympics, World Cups, World Championships, Golf Majors and many of the biggest sporting news stories.

After working with Setanta Sports in Dublin, she moved to Manchester over a decade ago to work on the BBC’s football league magazine show ‘Late Kick Off’. She quickly progressed to presenting the flagship sports show ‘Sportsworld’ on BBC World Service Radio, where she brought listeners live coverage of the Premier League, as well as anchoring the programme from major events, like two Women’s World Cups, the Rio Olympics and Wimbledon.

Sarah is also a familiar face on BBC TV, where she worked as a sports news presenter across BBC Breakfast, the News at Ten and the BBC News Channel. Well-versed in breaking news live on air, she has covered many major stories and events over the years, most notably, anchoring BBC News’ output from the Tokyo Olympics. She was also the presenter of the BBC’s sports news podcast, The Sports Desk.

For BBC Sport and 5 Live radio, Sarah has become a regular presence on their live event output. She presents and commentates on much of the BBC’s golf coverage, which included covering Tiger Woods' most recent Masters victory and Shane Lowry winning the Open. She has anchored shows and reported from the Six Nations and the Rugby World Cup. Sarah was one of the few BBC Sport reporters sent to cover the covid impacted 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, before spending the Summer at the World and European Athletics Championships working as the BBC’s trackside reporter.

The versatile broadcaster has also presented and reported from Wimbledon for the BBC World Service and the ATP Tour Finals in London.

She currently reports on the Men’s BBC’s FA Cup coverage, anchors live Women’s Super League games and the flagship WSL highlights show.

Sarah is the BBC’s GAA Presenter, and will have the privilege of bringing UK audiences the All-Ireland hurling and football finals on the BBC.

Sarah is also an event host and moderator delivering events for the Global Irish Forum, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, Broadcast Sports and the London Irish Business Society.