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RTE’s Richard Downes’ life with wife Mairead, loss of brother & mental struggle as a war reporter
Richard Downes has covered some of the world’s biggest stories for both the BBC and RTE. From reporting in Baghdad and Iraq to spending three years in the United States as a Washington Correspondent, he travelled around the world for many years working, …