Katherine Lynch

Katherine Lynch (born 1973) is an Irish television personality from County Leitrim. She has had several television series broadcast on RTÉ Two, with titles like Working Girls, Wonderwomen and Single Ladies. Lynch also participated as a bainisteoir in the second series of the RTÉ One's Celebrity Bainisteoir. She is said to have established a following among the Irish gay community.

Katherine Lynch's Wonderwomen began airing on 20 October 2008.

An Audience with Katherine Lynch followed this in December 2008, described by Irish Independent critic John Boland as "an hour-long show in which Katherine Lynch's ego was allowed to run rampant in front of an audience of minor celebrities."

Lynch was a bainisteoir in the second series of Celebrity Bainisteoir in 2009. Upon reaching the final, she appeared alongside her opponent Derek Davis on Tubridy Tonight.

A 2009 DVD outsold efforts by Neil Delamere and PJ Gallagher, though did not manage to outsell Des Bishop.

Her series Katherine Lynch's Single Ladies began in January 2010, achieving a 29 per cent audience share for its first episode which featured nudity and an encounter with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Lynch appeared on The Cafe on 8 January 2010 before the show began in order to promote it.

Characters Lynch is known for her multiplicity of characters and her confusion over which one is her personal favourite. When asked by the Irish Independent which was her favourite she initially declared it was "like asking a woman to pick her favourite child" but when prompted chose Liz Hurley, described as a "sexually confused small-town girl of 35 who still lives at home with the Mammy, coaches the local ladies' GAA team, plays bass in small-town AC/DC Tribute act 50-50". had her as granddaughter of the acclaimed Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Revelations concerning her links to the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara were also discussed on RTÉ Radio 1 by songwriter, Shay Healy. This comes about through her connections to the Galwegian Patrick Lynch and his relatives who also include the naval officer Patricio Lynch, and the writers Benito Lynch and Adolfo Bioy Casares.