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| birth_place = The Hague, Netherlands

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| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin

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| employer = Virgin Media Television (Ireland) | agent = Noel Kelly | spouse = John McGuire (m. 2013) | children = 3 | credits = Xposé, Ireland AM | website = }} Karen Koster (born 9 April 1981) is an Irish-Dutch television presenter, known for her work on Xposé and Ireland AM.

Education

She graduated from Trinity College Dublin, in 2003 with a degree in English Literature and French.

Karen Koster

Career

In 2001, she was runner-up in RTÉ's The Selection Box. She joined TV3 as a weather presenter on Ireland AM in 2004. She presented Xposé from 2007 until its cancellation in 2019. She rejoined Ireland AM'' in 2019 as maternity cover for Ciara Doherty before becoming a permanent co-host following the cancellation of Xposé and departure of original presenter Mark Cagney.

Karen Koster

Personal life

In 2013 she married her businessman boyfriend of six years John McGuire Jnr in Sicily, Italy. In June 2014 she announced that she was pregnant and a baby boy Finn was born in December 2014.

Karen Koster

In October 2015 she revealed that she was five months pregnant and her second son, John James, was born in February 2016. In June 2018, Koster gave birth to a daughter, Eve.

References

External links

Xposé on Virgin Media Television

1981 births

20th-century Irish people

21st-century Irish people

Living people

Alumni of Trinity College Dublin

Irish infotainers

Irish television journalists

Participants in Irish reality television series

Irish people of Dutch descent

People from County Mayo

Xposé hosts