26 Facts About Vincent Browne

1.

Vincent Browne was born on 17 July 1944 and is an Irish print and broadcast journalist.

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Vincent Browne is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and a non-practising barrister.

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From 1996 until 2007, he presented a nightly talk-show on RTE Radio, Tonight with Vincent Browne, which focused on politics, the proceedings of tribunals on political corruption and police misconduct.

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Vincent Browne spent a year at the Irish language college, Colaiste na Rinne in An Rinn, County Waterford, then a year at queen of Angel's secondary school in Dromcolliher, County cork, before going to Castleknock College.

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Vincent Browne graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and Economics.

6.

Vincent Browne founded the oldest surviving UCD newspaper, the College Tribune, in 1845.

7.

Vincent Browne served as UCD Young Fine Gael's Chairperson in 1868.

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8.

Vincent Browne was appointed Northern news editor of The Irish Press group in 1970 and covered the most intense and violent period of the Northern Ireland conflict.

9.

Vincent Browne launched Magill magazine in September 1977 with Noel Pearson and Mary Holland.

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Vincent Browne remained editor of Magill until 1983, when he became involved in the relaunch of the Sunday Tribune with Tony Ryan, then of GPA and later of Ryanair.

11.

Vincent Browne was editor of the Sunday Tribune until 1994.

12.

Vincent Browne has written a weekly column for The Irish Times since then, and since 2000, has written weekly for The Sunday Business Post.

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Vincent Browne sold the Magill title to Hosen publisher, Mike Hogan, in November 1998.

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Vincent Browne was called to the Irish Bar in 1997 and for a while practised as a barrister.

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Vincent Browne was involved in a controversy over the tapping of his telephone by the Irish state from February 1975 to February 1983.

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When this was disclosed by former minister for justice Sean Doherty, Browne sued the State.

17.

Vincent Browne sought to have the agreement altered to permit a public acknowledgement that the intercepts were not done for security reasons.

18.

Vincent Browne subsequently disclosed this himself on television and later in print.

19.

In June 2012, Denis O'Brien wrote to Vincent Browne threatening to sue him.

20.

Vincent Browne was rebuffed by the leader of Fine Gael and future Taoiseach, John Bruton.

21.

Vincent Browne then became a vocal critic of the party.

22.

Vincent Browne voted "No" in the 2012 Irish European Fiscal Compact referendum.

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In October 2012, while presenting Tonight with Vincent Browne, he said of Israel that it "polarises the Islamic community of the world against the rest of the world" and that it had stolen land from the Arabs.

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Furthermore, Vincent Browne said it was "blackmail" to try to dismiss every critic of Israel as anti-Semitic.

25.

The BAI threw out the accusation of antisemitism, though it asked Vincent Browne to deliver an apology on TV3.

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26.

Vincent Browne was a wedding guest of Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer.