Fergal Bowers (born November 1961) is an Irish journalist. He is the
health correspondent for
RTÉ News
RTÉ News and Current Affairs ( ga, Nuacht agus Cúrsaí Reatha RTÉ), also known as RTÉ News (''Nuacht RTÉ''), is the national news service provided by Irish public broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Its services include local, nationa ...
.
Previously he worked as an editor for ''
Irish Medical News'' from 1988 to 2000, and irishhealth.com from 2000 to 2004.
Career
Bowers began his career as an editor for ''
Irish Medical News'' in 1988
and won an ESB National Media Award in 1996. On 31 October 2000, it was announced that he would be a new editor for Ireland's independent health website irishhealth.com.
In August 2004, he was appointed by
RTÉ
(RTÉ) (; Irish language, Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the Public broadcaster, national broadcaster of Republic of Ireland, Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on RTÉ Television, telev ...
to the senior position of health correspondent.
References
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1961 births
Living people
Irish journalists
RTÉ newsreaders and journalists