Presenters
Brendan Courtney
Brendan Courtney is a broadcaster and art director both in Ireland and the UK. He studied Art Direction from London's premier fashion college Central Saint Martins.
Recently Brendan established a successful styling service "Ihatemylook.com" for personal styling and fashion advice, where has built up a devoted clientele.
He also masterminded the return of iconic fashion brand The Clothes Show and has just completed the third series as presenter and producer.
Brendan has been nominated for the Best TV Presenter Award twice and won most stylish presenter at The Belfast TV Awards in July last year.
His TV career began in Ireland as a researcher, after which he moved on to create and present Ireland's hit internet chat room dating show, Wanderlust. The format was sold to 11 countries and was picked up by Living TV in the UK. Following the International success of 'Wanderlust', ITV promptly offered Brendan a presenter's role on ITV2's extra shows for Ant and Dec's Saturday Takeaway and Blind Date.
Brendan hosted RTÉ's 40th Anniversary Celebrations and reality show Treasure Island. He has since presented and produced many TV shows with his production company Giant Film & TV. His self authored documentary ALIAS RICKY GERVAIS was Bravo's highest rating show in 2006.
Brendan is honoured and excited to be presenting the latest incarnation of 'Off the Rails' with his fabulous co-presenter Sonya Lennon.
Sonya Lennon
Sonya Lennon is widely regarded as one of Ireland's top fashion stylists, having established a reputation for creative excellence over almost twenty years. Her work is distinguished by a meticulous attention to detail for fashion and styling and intuitive awareness of the demands of each production.
Coupled with Sonya's reputation in the fashion industry, she is fast being recognized as a leading Costume Designer in Film and more recently Theatre.
Her styling and editorial work is clearly recognisable by the continuous use of narrative as a key creative tool in the development and creation of original fashion stories for Irish and international publications. Her reputation and experience has enabled her to not only manage the fashion and styling for many of her clients but to art direct, conceive and produce all aspects of the fashion stories - this alone marks her out as being unique amongst her peers.
While her editorial work reflects the cutting edge of her practice her portfolio of work has broadened to include costume for television, costume design for film and stage, styling for advertising and production for fashion shows. Since its beginning, Sonya has been a regular contributor to RTÉ's Off the Rails, and is delighted to be presenting the newly formatted series with co-presenter Brendan Courtney.
