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- He retired twenty years later on 15 December 1992, having served as a newsreader for many years. His was known for cycling to RTÉ's Montrose Studios every day. He died on 4 September 2017.
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Sep 5, 2017 · Former RTE news anchor Don Cockburn has died. The 87-year-old worked for the national broadcaster for over 30 years. He joined RTÉ as a part-time Raidió Éireann announcer in 1958, before ...
Sep 8, 2017 · Former RTÉ newsreader and journalist Cockburn died aged 87 in hospital in Dublin on Tuesday following a short illness. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel. Stay up to date with all the...
Sep 5, 2017 · Former RTÉ newsreader and journalist Don Cockburn has died aged 87 in hospital in Dublin following a short illness. Mr Cockburn joined RTÉ as a part-time Raidió Éireann announcer in 1958 before...
Sep 10, 2017 · Donald 'Don' Cockburn, who has died at the age of 87, was an accidental news reader in the sense that his early ambition was to join the Irish diplomatic service, to which end he learned Russian...
Sep 7, 2017 · Thu Sep 07 2017 - 13:30. Long-serving RTÉ television news anchor Don Cockburnwas a deeply religious man who loved his family, community, radio and poetry and possibly invented the cycle to work...
Jan 18, 2005 · Is he still alive, I wonder? (elderly RTÉ newsreader, last seen in the early '90s) Help me - I need to know. :confused:
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.
