Vincent Browne

Vincent Browne
Browne in 2011
Born (1944-07-17) 17 July 1944 (age 80)
EducationCastleknock College
Alma materUniversity College Dublin (UCD)
Occupation(s)Broadcaster and journalist
Employer(s)The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, TV3
Known forPresenting TV3's Tonight with Vincent Browne
SpouseJean Browne
ChildrenEmma
Julia

Vincent Browne (born 17 July 1944) is an Irish print and broadcast journalist. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and a non-practising barrister. From 1996 until 2007, he presented a nightly talk-show on RTÉ Radio, Tonight with Vincent Browne, which focused on politics, the proceedings of tribunals on political corruption and police misconduct. From 2007 to 2017 he presented Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3,[1] which was broadcast from Monday to Thursday at 11:00pm.[2]

  1. ^ "Five things we learned from Leo Varadkar's final appearance on 'Tonight with Vincent Browne'". Irish Independent. 27 July 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  2. ^ White, Michael. "An Irish election in a time of staggering debt and quiet rage" Archived 17 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian. 14 February 2011. "And what of Enda Kenny, the man set to inherit this mess? He ducked last week's leaders debate on TV, ostensibly because its acerbic host, Vincent Browne, Ireland's Jeremy Paxman, had suggested he shoot himself, but actually because he's hopeless on TV."