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Eamonn Holmes (born 3 December 1959) is a journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, best known for presenting Sky News, Songs of Praise and This Morning.
Holmes co-presented GMTV for twelve years between 1993 and 2005, before joining Sky News Sunrise in 2006, which he presents from Monday to Thursday with Isabel Webster. Since 2006, he has co-hosted This Morning with his wife Ruth Langsford on Fridays and during school holidays.
Holmes was educated at Holy Family Primary School in Belfast and St Malachy's College, a Roman Catholic grammar school for boys, on the Antrim Road in Belfast. He then studied journalism at the Dublin College of Business Studies.
Holmes worked for a Dublin-based business magazine before going into broadcasting.
In 1979, he joined Ulster Television, the ITV franchise contractor for Northern Ireland. Here Holmes hosted and reported on the station's Farming Ulster programme. Afterwards, Eamonn was teamed up with Ulster Television’s legendary sports reporters, Leslie Dawes (1922–2014) and Jackie Fullerton, to assist the extensive coverage of the important sporting events throughout the province.
Greet the fabric pattern chain
Seen the time and time again
Pick it up where others fall
Rush to replicate it all
They return in silver suits
Sparky helmets, silver boots
Sparky helmets
When you're restless, when you're bored
Play the first card that you call
This machine sounds like a song
Touch the pedal, sing along
Swing a left to check the bail
Trace the fabric to the trail
Run the cards unto the bell
Tore the stitches, wear the fur
Run the cards in
When you're restless, when you're bored