Colette Fitzpatrick

Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary.

Fitzpatrick is a TV3 news anchor. She presents TV3's daily news bulletins at 5:30 and is the host of TV3's Midday. She also hosts the prime time current affairs show Midweek every Wednesday at 10.00pm.

Fitzpatrick began working in the TV3 newsroom in March 2001. She has edited and anchored bulletins for the morning news programme Ireland AM and also reported on a range issues for the main evening news. She reported from Kashmir on the aftermath of the earthquake. She was also a regular stand-in as main presenter on Ireland AM alongside Mark Cagney, Alan Hughes and Aidan Cooney.

Fizpatrick previously worked in the newsroom in Today FM where she edited and presented hourly bulletins and reported on a range of stories including courts and tribunals. She produced The Sunday Supplement, presented by Sam Smyth, and also previously worked at East Coast FM in County Wicklow where she first began her broadcasting career. Colette graduated in Journalism from DIT in Aungier Street.

Colette

Colette (French: [kɔ.lɛt]) (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi (1944), was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist.

Life and career

Family and background

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on January 28, 1873, to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie ("Sido"), nėe Landoy, in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in the departement of Yonne, Burgundy. The family was initially well off, but by the time she was of school age poor financial management had substantially reduced her father's income and she attended a public school from the ages of 6 to 17 — this was, nevertheless, a fairly extensive education for a girl of the period.

Early years, 1893 – 1912

In 1893 she married Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859 – 1931) or 'Willy', his nom-de-plume, a well-known author and publisher, and her first four novels — the four Claudine stories, Claudine à l'école (1900), Claudine à Paris (1901), Claudine en menage (1902), and Claudine s'en va (1903) — appeared under his name. They chart the coming of age of their heroine, Claudine, from an unconventional fifteen year old in a Burgundian village to the literary salons of turn-of-the-century Paris. (The four are published in English as Claudine at School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, and Claudine and Annie). The story they tell is semi-autobiographical, but not entirely — most strikingly, Claudine, unlike Colette, is motherless.

Colette (boutique)

Coordinates: 48°51′55″N 2°19′51″E / 48.86528°N 2.33083°E / 48.86528; 2.33083

Colette is a French "brick-and-click" clothing and accessory retailer. The three floor 8,000 square feet (740 m²) concept store is located in Paris and contains an exhibition space, bookshop, and a "water bar" serving more than 100 brands of bottled water.

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Colette (given name)

Colette is a French feminine given name. It may refer to: