Donald Cockburn (13 March 1930 – 4 September 2017) was an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader.
He is best known as a long-serving newsreader for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), who anchored the broadcaster's main evening television news programmes during over thirty years of service.
Cockburn was educated at Synge Street CBS,[2] later studying Russian and Spanish at Trinity College Dublin at night after receiving a dispensation from Archbishop John Charles McQuaid to do so.
[2] He originally joined RTÉ as a part-time announcer in 1958, and was made a full-time employee in 1972.
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