Vincent Browne
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Vincent Browne (born 17 July 1944) is an Irish print and broadcast journalist.
He is a columnist for The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post, as well as a non-practising barrister.
He hosted a nightly talk show on RTÉ Radio, Tonight with Vincent Browne, which emphasized politics, law reform, and police abuse from 1996 to 2007.
He appeared on Tonight with Vincent Browne from 2007 to 2017, which was broadcast from Monday to Thursday at 11:00 p.m.
Early life
Born in 1944, he grew up in Broadford, County Limerick, where he attended the local national school. Coláiste Rinne in An Rinn, County Waterford, spent a year at St. Mary's secondary school in Dromcolliher, County Limerick, before moving to Castleknock College (1957-1962). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and Economics from University College Dublin. In 1989, he founded the College Tribune, the oldest operating UCD newspaper. In 1968, he served as the chairperson of UCD Young Fine Gael.
Personal life
Browne is married and has two children. In June 2011, he sold his €2.6 million house in Dalkey to pay off debts incurred since the inception of Village magazine, as well as a pension. He now lives in Dn Laoghaire, D.C.
Career
In 1967–68, he appeared on The Late Late Show on RTÉ. In 1968, he wrote about the Soviet and Warsaw Pact resurrection of Czechoslovakia and later edited Nusight, a monthly news newspaper published in 1969-1970.
In 1970, he was appointed Northern news editor of The Irish Press company (working with The Irish Press, the Evening Press, and The Sunday Press), which covered the most dramatic and violent period of the Northern Ireland conflict. He joined Independent Newspapers in 1974 and, after a brief time in the Evening Herald, worked for the Sunday Independent, Conor O'Brien, and later by Michael Hand.
In September 1977, Noel Pearson and Mary Holland launched Magill magazine, which was published in the United States. Magill was Ireland's top investigative journal. Gene Kerrigan, Pat Brennan, and Paddy Agnew were among its writers. He served as editor of Magill until 1983, when he joined the Sunday Tribune as a relaunch of the Sunday Tribune, first of GPA and then of Ryanair. He published a series of articles in Magill highlighting the differences between the Workers' Party of Ireland and the Official IRA in the 1980s, causing him and other journalists to be killed. Following the publication of "The Official IRA and the Workers' Party," it was revealed that the Official IRA had intended to assassinate him by planting a bomb on his boat, but the operation was called off at the last minute. He was the editor of the Sunday Tribune from 1994 to 1994. Since then, he has been writing weekly for The Sunday Business Journal, and since 2000 has been writing for The Irish Times. In 1996, he began broadcasting on RTÉ radio.
He revived Magill magazine, which had stopped being published in 1990. The magazine published 13 issues back then, and it included numerous popular stories. Mr Justice Fergus Flood's Flood was the founding of the Planning Tribunal; another caused a committee of the Oireachtas to look into the DIRT scandal; another led to an inquiry into insurance "churning" by Irish Life, a major Irish insurance company. In November 1998, Mike Hogan, a Hosen publisher, sold the Magill series to Hosen publisher Mike Hogan. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1997 and spent a while as a barrister. He no longer practices law.
In October 2004, he founded Village, a contemporary affairs newspaper of which he was editor, which he founded. Village stopped publication in August 2008 before being re-launched under the supervision of Michael Smith, a new editor. Browne now writes a column for Village magazine.
He was implicated in a controversy over the tapping of his phone by the Irish state from February 1975 to February 1983. Browne sued the state after it was revealed by former justice Seán Doherty. Browne reached a deal with the state in early 1997 that included an understanding to publish a statement stating that Browne had intercepted his telephone calls for reasons of State protection, among other things, while acknowledging that Browne had never been involved in subversion or criminal activity. Browne said that although being given access to the transcripts from 1981, it was clear that the motives behind his phone calls during the eight-year period had little to do with the state's security; it was primarily aimed at gaining details on his work as a journalist, rather than his coverage of the IRA. Browne attempted to have the deal changed to allow for the public to know that the intercepts were not done for security reasons. The Fine Gael-Labour-Democratic Left government refused. He later revealed it on television and later in print.
He hosted the programme Tonight with Vincent Browne on RTÉ Radio 1. He substituted John Bowman for John Bowman on the RTÉ television show Questions and Answers in August 2000. On RTÉ One, he also spoke at Prime Time.
He appeared on Tonight with Vincent Browne, a nightly current affairs television show on TV3, from January 14 to July 2017, before stepping down from his role in July 2017. Despite airing on what is usually thought of a graveyard slot, the program was extremely popular, with 166,000 viewers.
Denis O'Brien wrote to Browne in June 2012, threatening to sue him. Browne also sent this letter to the general public.
Browne wrote a piece for The Irish Times about why O'Brien "is not a fit person to head INM [Independence News & Media]]. "I'm sure it's true that Sam Smyth's ouster from a Sunday morning radio show on Today FM, which Denis O'Brien owns, and his subsequent ostracization attempt against Sam Smyth in 2010?" says the author (not one article by him) isn't part of the same campaign that Denis O'Brien and [one of his then representatives on the board of INM] Leslie Buckley under surveillance.
He led a posse of journalists and camera crews into Gorse Hill, the up-market house at the center of a court conflict in 2015.