John Bowman (born 28 July 1942) is an Irish historian and a long-standing broadcaster and presenter of current affairs and political programmes with RTÉ.
[2] Bowman chaired the audience-participation political programme Questions and Answers on RTÉ One television for 21 years, the final edition airing on 29 June 2009.
Bowman served a two-year term as president of The Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Relations from 1991 and of Comhar, an environmental pressure group, from 1999 until 2004 [1].
[1] His eldest son Jonathan Philbin Bowman, a journalist, television and radio presenter, died in an accident in March 2000.
His middle son Abie Philbin Bowman is a columnist[7] for The Dubliner magazine and a stand-up comedian,[8] while in 2005 his youngest son Daniel initiated Be Not Afraid; a charity wristband campaign which raised over €80,000 in aid of Turning the Tide of Suicide and the Irish Red Cross[9] and later set up a youth marketing firm, Spark.