20100725_BOY012_e1_NWSNorth 15/07/2010 12:55 Page 12 Warm front Niamh BYRNE S A TG4 presenter it's hard to escape the `TG-PHWOAR' tagline ­ the station is renowned for using gorgeous Gaelgoirs to sex up the Irish language with national beauties like Grainne Seoige and Sharon Ni Bheolain cutting their teeth on the Galwaybased station. Weather girl Sínead Ní Loideáin is no different ­ a regular feature in online listings of the `top TV totty' ­ but after nine years onscreen she has learned to laugh off the sex symbol tagline. The 29-year-old also finally quashes rumours that she is planning to strip for a lad's mag, asserting that she is just too shy ­ sorry lads. Check out Sínead's Wikipedia page and the two sentence description reads: "Ní Loideáin is a native of Connemara and a native Irish language speaker. She says she suffers mild panic attacks before appearing on air, and has received offers to pose nude in men's magazines." The reference to stripping for lads' mags is something that haunts the weather girl as she said it is completely untrue. "I did an interview about four years ago and when the feature came out it said I would do a saucy shoot for a lads' mag. "It's so embarrassing, it's so not me, my friends had a great laugh at it which put me at ease slightly. "I still hear about it all the time now, and it's completely untrue, I wouldn't strip for a lads' mag, not now, not ever. I'm far too shy." The news will come as a disappointment to Sinead's following of male fans who flood online discussion rooms with pictures and compliments about their favourite weather girl. For the down-to-earth presenter, the sex-symbol tagline has always been a bit of an embarrassment. She admits her male fans probably wouldn't be as impressed if they saw her off-screen. "I don't see myself as a sex symbol. "I don't pay attention to it, most of the time in the studios I look like I've been dragged through a bush. "We do 11-hour shifts, there is a lot of working behind the A SHOW: Sinead with Síle Ní Bhraonáin Another in a long line of TG4 beauties, Sínead Ní Loideáin puts paid to talk of lads' mag shoots and says she`s certainly not a sex symbol STYLE: S inead claims she doesn't worry too much off camera "It was a crazy house already with my two sisters and two brothers so in the summer time it was madness. "I didn't have any romance with any of the boys they were awful messers. "They used to be breaking out of the house, breaking the toilet, drawing on our family photos on the wall, one guy even put his hand through the wall." Sínead is currently on the road again in search of the very best of Irish entertainment for TG4 programme, Féilte. Co-hosting the show with Síle Ní Bhraonáin, the pair will travel to festivals in Gaoth Dobhair, Achill, Clifden, Kilkee, An Daingean, Clonakilty, Dungarvan, Carlingford and Belfast. "I'm really lucky, I basically get paid to talk to people and have a laugh. "In the future I'd love to work on a travel show, there are so many opportunities in TG4 so hopefully that will be in the pipeline." Tune into Féilte every Thursday evening at 8.30pm on TG4. `I don't see myself as a sex symbol ... most of the time in the studios I look like I've been dragged through a bush' and I just try and take it on the scenes so most of the time I'm chin." walking around in slippers and a Growing up in Carraroe, Galway, tracksuit. "As soon as I'm off screen I take Sínead was used to male attention from an early age as each my makeup off, and when I go summer her mother would out I wouldn't wear as much take in students from the makeup so people don't really local Gaeltacht Coláiste recognise me. Chiaráin. "If I am recognised I usuIt would be most ally lie and say `Oh no that's teenager's dreams to have not me I just look like the girl their house filled with off TG4." boys from around the Sinead confesses that she country but Sínead even gets the odd insult when said it wasn't as fun she is recognised in her as it sounds, and dressed-down gear. she definitely did"It does sting sometimes. I n't have any have frizzy hair and someromance with the one might say, `Well, you students. don't look like you do on "We used to have the telly'. "People are entitled to S T U N N I N G : 21 students staying in our house, they were either all their own opinion. I have Sharon Ni girls or all boys. good days and bad days Bheolain 14 The mag