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Sat 11 Nov 2009Mentor to many of the leading names in Irish journalism
Seán Egan: SEÁN EGAN was the quiet man of Irish journalism under whose tutelage many leading journalists were trained in their craft.
As a news reporter hired by the infant TV station Telefís Éireann, which began broadcasting on New Year’s Eve in 1961, he achieved near celebrity status in his four-year stint in front of the camera. When US president John F Kennedy visited his Irish relatives in 1963 in Co Wexford, Egan was there with his microphone.
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