Joanne Cantwell (born 30 September 1979) is an Irish sports presenter and journalist.
Cantwell was raised in Dublin and is one of five sisters. She studied journalism at Dublin City University. She is married, has two daughters, and lives in Ongar, County Dublin.
Cantwell participated in several competitive sports during her teenage years. She played ladies' Gaelic football for the Dublin county team. She was named Young Dublin Player of the Year in 1997 and received an All-Star nominee in 1998.
Cantwell began her journalism career while still in university, covering weekend sport on radio station FM104. In 2001, she joined the independent Irish channel TV3, where she worked as a producer on news bulletins and presented the programme Sports Tonight.
She later joined RTÃÂ, Ireland's national broadcaster. Cantwell has presented and reported across a range of sports programming, including the weekly former rugby magazine programme Against the Head on RTÃÂ2, and contributed as a match reporter on Premier Soccer Saturday. During the summer months, she was working as a reporter on The Sunday Game, Raidió TeilifÃÂs ÃÂireann's flagship Gaelic games programme aired on RTÃÂ2 every Sunday during the All-Ireland Football and Hurling Championships.
In April 2016, Cantwell became the first woman to anchor RTÃÂ's UEFA Champions League coverage. In February 2018, she was announced as the new studio presenter of The Sunday Game, succeeding Michael Lyster following his retirement at the end of the 2018 GAA season.