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Simon Rowe is an Irish journalist. He is a former journalist at Business & Finance magazine and producer on Newstalk 106 talk radio station. He is the former editor of The Irish Catholic , from which he resigned after a disagreement over an article which criticised the sale of church property by Ireland's senior prelates. [1] After leaving the Irish Catholic he founded and edited the magazine The Voice Today [2] [3] (which closed in 2006). He has been a contributor on radio and TV including Newstalk 106 and RTÉ.[ citation needed ]

A graduate in History and Politics from University College Dublin, Rowe also worked as an editor with Ocean Publishing prior to editing The Irish Catholic. [4]

As of 2016, he was writing for the Sunday Independent [5] and Belfast Telegraph on business matters.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Irish Catholic editor lasts nine months". The Business Post. 20 June 2004. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
  2. "Catholicism Confronts Faith Crisis in Ireland". Reading Eagle . 15 July 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  3. Rival Voice to strike fear into Irish Catholic paper, The Sunday Times, 7 November 2004.
  4. New editor of Irish Catholic is appointed by Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times, 19 August 2003.
  5. INM trio shortlisted for journalism awards by Michael Cogley, www.independent.ie, 16 November 2016.