Fergal Bowers

Fergal Bowers
Born1961 (age 64–65)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • health correspondent
EmployerRTÉ

Fergal Bowers (born November 1961) is an Irish journalist. He is the health correspondent for RTÉ News.[1][2][3] Previously he worked as an editor for Irish Medical News from 1988 to 2000, and irishhealth.com from 2000 to 2004.[4][5]

Career

Bowers has been a journalist since 1980. He began his career working for Rod & Gun, a monthly fishing and shooting magazine and Sail N' Power, a boating and sailing magazine, both published from Rathfarnham in Dublin. He was editor of Irish Pro & Am Golf News, a monthly Irish golf newspaper from 1983 to 1985. He was editor of The Oracle, a monthly newspaper for the Dublin South West region, based in Tallaght from 1987 to 1988. He was a senior reporter and later appointed editor for Irish Medical News in 1988[5] and won an ESB National Media Award in 1996 for his coverage of the Hepatitis C blood infection scandal.[6]

On 31 October 2000, it was announced that he would be a new editor for Ireland's independent health website irishhealth.com.[5][7][8] In August 2004, he was appointed by RTÉ to the senior position of health correspondent. Bowers is most associated with Ireland's national public service broadcaster, RTE News, and his radio, TV and online coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland between 2020 and 2022.[4][9][10][11]

Bowers is the author of three non-fiction books, The Work: An investigation into the history of Opus Dei and how it operates in Ireland today (1989), Suicide in Ireland: A national study (1994) and Hep C Niamh's Story (1997).

In April 2020, Bowers was involved through COVIDAID Ireland in the release of a charity single On Horseback, in aid of Age Action Ireland and the Irish Red Cross Hardship Fund, for families affected by the pandemic. [12]

References

  1. ^ "Fergal Bowers". RTÉ News and Current Affairs. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  2. ^ "The magnificent obsession of Fergal Bowers". Irish Independent. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Fergal Bowers - RTÉ journalist - Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Top RTE post for editor". irishhealth.com. 11 August 2004. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Top journalist is new Editor of irishhealth.com". irishhealth.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  6. ^ "irishhealth.com wins media award". inmo.ie. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Fergal Bowers' Spooks". thephoenix.ie. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  8. ^ Culliton, Gary (6 July 2009). "Fergal Bowers to judge Irish Healthcare Awards". imt.ie. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Colleagues Diarmuid Peavoy, Fergal Bowers and Paul Maguire win Awards." superannrte.ie. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Health Correspondent Fergal Bowers explains what this first case of coronavirus in Northern Ireland, involving a person who landed at Dublin Airport, means for passengers on that plane?". facebook.com. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020 – via Facebook.
  11. ^ "Fergal Bowers - Health Correspondent - RTÉ News - LinkedIn". linkedin.com. Retrieved 28 August 2020 – via LinkedIn.
  12. ^ "Irish artists reimagine Oldfield classic for charity". www.rte.ie. RTE News. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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