Andy O'Mahony
| Andy O'Mahony | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 August 1934 Clonmel, County Tipperary |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin, University College Dublin, Harvard University |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
Andy O’Mahony is an Irish broadcast journalist who worked for RTÉ (Raidio Telefís Éireann) from 1961 to 2013. He was one of the network's first television news anchors, and thereafter was a radio and television host of various long-running series. He also made radio and television programmes for BBC between 1977 and 1988, including a number of television arts documentaries for BBC2.
The programmes he was most closely identified with over the years consisted of a number of book-based radio series for RTÉ. Series such as Books and Company, Off The Shelf and Dialogue provided a regular forum for the discussion of ideas in economics, politics and culture. From 1988 to 2000, he presented The Sunday Show, a current affairs talk show for RTÉ Radio 1. He earned four Jacob's Radio awards.
A lifelong book collector, he donated his personal library in February 2015 to the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick. This collection of over 7000 volumes reflects the donor's various interests, ranging from philosophy, religion and literature to economics, politics and the history of ideas.
His autobiographical memoir Creating Space: The Education of a Broadcaster was published by the Liffey Press in 2016.
Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1934, he was educated locally by the Christian Brothers, and in Limerick by the Redemptorists, who taught him Latin and Greek. At the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin he was a student of the English baritone, Dennis Noble. He graduated in Commerce from Trinity College, Dublin and in Philosophy and Logic from University College, Dublin. He has a PhD in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University
After a year’s clerking with Clonmel Foods Ltd, in Co. Tipperary in 1952/1953, he worked for the Bank of Ireland from 1954 to 1961. During his last year in banking, he was also a part-time announcer/newsreader with Raidio Éireann.
In November 1961 he joined Raidio Éireann as a radio announcer/ newsreader. Two years later he became a news anchor with Ireland’s new television service, Telefís Éireann (later RTÉ). In that first decade of broadcasting, he also presented arts and music programmes on radio. In 1972, he quit radio and television news to concentrate on feature programmes and pursue academic research interests.
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