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Mike Burns   Sligo native now living in Co. Donegal in alleged semi-retirement, a status that is frequently interrupted by freelance contributions to the national media and a residency as anchor on a Saturday morning current affairs programme on Ocean FM!
Presenter of It Says In The Papers on RTE radio for almost a quarter of a century until April 2008; Dublin Bureau Chief of The Sun and News Editor of The Irish Sun 1992-2003; Founder(1979) Ireland International News/Features; Staff reporter in London with Daily Telegraph(1968-74) and Daily Express(1974-79).
Commenced career on Sligo Champion(1961), moving on to Donegal People’s Press, Irish Press and Brighton Evening Argus before move to Fleet Street in 1968.
Short-lived residencies as News Editor of Daily News, Dublin, which shut down after 16 issues, and Century Radio which survived two years before it also closed.
Married to Bernadette(the world’s greatest confidence-booster), father of three and grandfather of five.
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