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George Hook presented the Fine Gael election candidates.

George Hook is an Irish broadcaster, journalist and rugby union pundit. He had a career as a rugby union coach and businessman, before becoming a rugby pundit with Irish television station RTÉ. He hosts The Right Hook on the Irish nationwide radio station Newstalk and appeared as a coach on RTÉ's reality TV show, Celebrity Bainisteoir.


In 2009, he visited the impoverished Caribbean island nation of Haiti where he was moved to tears by the plight of the poor people who lived there so much that he organised a recruitment drive to get volunteers to go there on a house building week. The next day a vicious earthquake struck Haiti. After the earthquake Hook was heard to say: "It is a godforsaken place. God has literally forsaken it." Following the January 2010 earthquake. Hook urged his radio listeners to donate money.

Hook is also the patron of 'Comber - for a future without orphanages' an Irish charity working in Romania since 1990, of which his daughter Michelle McGill, is on the board of directors. The charity provides homes in the community for adults with disabilities who grew up in institutions and orphanages.
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Author William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland

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