Don Cockburn

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Birth Date:
00.00.1930
Death date:
05.09.2017
Length of life:
87
Days since birth:
34423
Years since birth:
94
Days since death:
2398
Years since death:
6
Categories:
Journalist, Telecaster, TV announcer
Nationality:
 irish
Cemetery:
Set cemetery

Don Cockburn (1930 – 5 September 2017) was an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader. He is best known as a long-serving newsreader for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), who anchored the broadcaster's main evening television news programmes during over 30 years of service. He originally joined RTÉ as a part-time announcer in 1958, and was made a full-time employee in 1972. He retired 20 years later on 15 December 1992, having served as a newsreader for many years. His one eccentricity was that he cycled to RTÉ's Montrose Studios every day.

He died on 5 September 2017.

Source: wikipedia.org

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