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Éamonn Lawlor (born 1951) is an Irish radio broadcaster on RTÉ lyric fm. Éamonn Lawlor was born in
Delvin Delvin () is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland; it is located on the N52 road at a junction with the N51 to Navan. The town is from Mullingar (along the N52). The word Delvin comes from Delbhna. That tribe settled in what is present-da ...
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County Westmeath "Noble above nobility" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg , subdivision_type = Sovereign state, Country , subdivision_name = Republic of Ireland, Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Provinces o ...
. He was educated at Rockwell College, Cashel, and University College Dublin where he received a Master of Arts in Modern English and American Literature. Lawlor is one of Ireland's leading current affairs broadcasters. He was RTÉ News and Current Affairs's Europe Correspondent from 1979 to 1989. He became the second male presenter of '' RTÉ News: Six One'', from 1992 to 1996. He then joined Brian Farrell and Miriam O'Callaghan as one of the co-presenters of the current affairs programme ''
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'' on RTÉ One. In May 1999 Lawlor left the current affairs department of RTÉ and joined RTÉ lyric fm. He currently presents ''The Lyric Concert'' every weekday nights. Lawlor is also a visiting lecturer at the International Academy of Broadcasting in Montreux, Switzerland.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawlor, Eamonn 1951 births Living people Irish television personalities Broadcasters from County Westmeath RTÉ lyric fm presenters Alumni of University College Dublin People from Delvin