Richard Crowley is an

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journalist and broadcaster. He was formerly

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Correspondent for

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, and co-presenter of the current affairs programme ''

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'' on

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television. Prior to leaving RTÉ in 2017, he had presented the News At One on RTÉ Radio One and co-presented the radio programme This Week, with Colm Ó Mongáin, on Sundays.

Career

Crowley began his journalistic career in the ''

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'' in 1976. During the 1980s, he was a reporter and news presenter on

television. He also presented a news feature programme called ''Radharc''. He later moved to

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where he presented ''

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'' for six years, and the ''

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''. He returned to RTÉ TV News, in 2001, as the

correspondent reporting from the region until 2009. His book, ''No Man's Land'', was published in October 2007. In 2009, he began presenting a new television series on RTÉ about Irish business and finance, called ''The Smart Money''. From June 2009, he presented and edited '' This Week'' on

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. Crowley began co-presenting

in 2010, and resigned from that role in 2012. He presented the News At One on Radio 1 and This Week on RTÉ radio until he resigned from RTE in December 2017. In 2015 he was named News Broadcaster of the Year at the Irish annual radio broadcasting awards, the PPIs.

References

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Richard Crowley on a career reporting from the heart of the Arab/Israeli conflict
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