Dil Wickremasinghe is a broadcaster and journalist living in Ireland. She was a radio presenter with Newstalk and is a panellist on TV3's Midday programme. ^[1] She has also done stand-up comedy. ^[2]

Born in Rome to Sri Lankan parents, who rejected her at the age of 17 after she told them she was gay and she became homeless as a result. ^{[1] [3]} Her mother, a Jehovah's Witness, attempted to "cure" her of her lesbianism after she fell in love with a girl. ^[1] She is also a survivor of sexual abuse. ^[4] While in Sri Lanka, she had a job on the radio but was dismissed in a dispute over her sexual orientation. ^{[1] [5]} As well as Italy and Sri Lanka, she lived for a time in Bahrain where she dated an Irish woman. She moved to Ireland in 2000; within 24 hours she was dancing down O'Connell Street, singing along to " It's Raining Men" at the Dublin Pride festival, an event which she regarded as crucial to her decision to settle in Ireland. ^[1]

She later experienced depression and received counselling from One in Four (the charity founded by Colm O'Gorman). ^[1] She first met her partner, the psychotherapist Anne Marie Toole, when they were forced to share a room at a weekend mental health conference in Wicklow on 30 April 2010, the day of Gerry Ryan's death. ^[1] They started dating one month later. ^[1]

In 2014, she announced she was pregnant. In doing so, she became the first lesbian in Irish public life to start a family with her partner. ^[4] Despite past difficulties with her parents, she reported they were delighted at the idea of becoming grandparents for the first time. ^[5] During her pregnancy she became a target of David Quinn and his Catholic Iona Institute, as well as numerous other anonymous individuals who questioned her fitness for motherhood. ^{[1] [5]}

On 4 February 2014, she received the Lord Mayor of Dublin's Frederick Douglass Award. ^{[4] [6]}

• Official website
• Dil Wickremasinghe Archived 17 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine at Newstalk
• 2014 Interview on Ireland AM