Shane Ó hEochagáin (pronounced [oː ˈhoːxəɡaːnʲ] oh-HOE-khu-gawn; (of the tribe of Uí Néill) born 17 August 1969), known mononymously as Hector, is an Irish television and radio presenter born in Drogheda, County Louth, and raised in Navan, County Meath.
Born as Shane Keogan in Drogheda, County Louth,[1] Ó hEochagáin attended St Patrick's Classical School in Navan at the same time as Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran.
Others included a penalty shootout with goalkeeper Shay Given at Newcastle United; taking on Ken Doherty in snooker; and, most recently, spending time with Aidan O'Brien, one of the world's most successful race horse trainers.
[6] Ó hEochagáin worked as a mechanical effects assistant on films such as "The Haunting of Hell House" and "Knocking On Death's Door".
[14] In 2019 he presented Hector USA - Ó Chósta go Cósta, where he takes on a road trip in the US from Coast to Coast, across the Southern States from Savannah on the Atlantic to San Diego on the Pacific, road-tripping from Georgia through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana into Texas, New Mexico and Arizona before finishing up on the Pacific seaboard in California, covering 8 states and more than 5,000 miles on the road.