A former RTE head of religious programmes, Billy Fitzgerald, has died in Gloucestershire.
Fitzgerald had been a priest of the Dublin archdiocese for 35 years and was a member of the groundbreaking Radharc film team.
He was head of religious programmes at RTE from 1975 – succeeding Bishop Edward Daly of Bloody Sunday renown – until 1992. Fitzgerald subsequently moved to England where hemarried journalist and broadcaster Rowanne Pasco, by whom he is survived.
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Fitzgerald wrote for several newspapers and magazines and in the week before his unexpected death he had contributed to the Rite and Reason column in the Irish Times .
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