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About Denis Tuohy
- Denis Tuohy (born 2 April 1937, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a television broadcaster, actor, newsreader and journalist.
- Tuohy attended Queen's College, Belfast, where he learned to debate and acquired an interest in acting.
- In 1960, he appeared in Over the Bridge, a play written by Sam Thompson and directed by Jimmy Ellis.
- Later that year, Tuohy became the first Catholic broadcaster for BBC Northern Ireland.Tuohy moved to London in 1964 to work for the new BBC-2.
- At the channel's launch that April, he was scheduled to be the first face on air.
- However, there was a disastrous power failure on the opening night, and newsreader Gerald Priestland was seen briefly before transmission was aborted and the official launch postponed until the day after.
- Tuohy headed the successful second attempt, sarcastically referencing the power cut by beginning the show under candlelight, then blowing out a candle on his desk.Tuohy participated in several of the BBC's current affairs programmes of the 1970s, including the long-running Panorama, and also presented ITV's This Week (known for a period of the 1980s as TV Eye).
- He interviewed Margaret Thatcher in the leadup to the 1979 United Kingdom general election.
- Communication specialist Geoffrey Beattie analysed the interview extensively in a work on patterns of interruption in conversation.
- During the 1990s, he was mainly known for his work as a reporter for ITN.After retiring from broadcasting, Tuohy took up acting again, playing roles in the television dramas Fair City, The Clinic, and Fallout.
- He also wrote a memoir, Wide-eyed in Medialand: A broadcaster's journey.
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