Irish BBC Radio and TV broadcaster, and former Irish Times journalist, Henry Kelly has died aged 78, APA reports citing the Irish Times.
Kelly shot to fame in the 1980s as presenter of BBC’s Going for Gold quizshow and ITV’s Game for a Laugh. However, his journalism career began two decades earlier when he started writing obituaries and theatre reviews for The Irish Times while studying for a degree in English at UCD.
The proudest period of his career were the years he spent reporting on the Northern Ireland Troubles for The Irish Times, his daughter Siobhán Kelly said.
Kelly was sent to Belfast on a week’s holiday cover in 1969 and ended up spending four years covering the Troubles as a reporter and editor, Ms Kelly told The Irish Times. “He always held The Irish Times very firmly in his heart and was very proud of the work he did in Northern Ireland and the time he spent there. I think probably looking back that was his proudest time.”
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