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Henry Kelly
April 17, 1946 – February 25, 2025 · aged 78 Dublin, Ireland
Patrick Henry Kelly known professionally as Henry Kelly, was an Irish radio and television broadcaster, and journalist, who was based in the United Kingdom. Kelly was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, and educated at Belvedere College SJ, and at University College Dublin, where he was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. After university he worked as a journalist and was the Belfast-based Northern Editor of The Irish Times in the 1970s. He wrote How Stormont Fell in 1972, a work still highly regarded. In 1976, he moved to London to work on Radio 4's The World Tonight and then, in a complete career change from serious journalism, in 1980 moved into television. Kelly beca…
