Background
Kingston grew up in the small seaside area of Inchydoney, the third eldest in a family of eight children.
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Mary Kingston
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In college, she studied Communication studies and graduated with an Honours Degree.
Career
She is the current presenter of The Disney Club on RTÉ Two. In 1981, after leaving primary school, she started attending the Sacred Heart Secondary School, Convent of Mercy, in nearby Clonakilty. After leaving college, she joined Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) as a children"s television presenter, and has worked there since.
She was a regular on The Den before hosting The Disney Club and Mary K in The Loft on Sunday mornings.
Foreign the next five years she has presented The Children of Ireland Awards with the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. In 2003, she took part in Celebrity Farm on RTÉ.
In 2005, she took part in The Restaurant, her star studded performance is one of her proudest moments. Kingston has authored a children"s book, Fantastic Far-Flung Facts for Fun.
The book describes her journey from Africa to Asia to South America to Madagascar, it"s a compilation of the many Fantastic facts she learned along the way, it includes hundreds of the photos Mary K took and endorses her sentiment " Leave only footprints, take only memories.....and photos!".
