RTÉ has announced the appointment of RTÉ journalist, Richard Downes, as its new Washington correspondent. The post is for a two year period. Currently one of the presenting team of RTÉ's flagship News programme, 'Morning Ireland', on RTÉ Radio 1, Richard started work in journalism in London in 1985 where he worked for the Press Association, Reuters and the Financial Times. He worked for the BBC for ten years, four of which he spent as their Southern Africa correspondent. Richard was in the Middle East in 1998 and 1999 and first visited Baghdad in 1998.
- 4/27/2010
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