"John Skehan" was a prolific broadcaster on Raidió Teilifís Éireann/RTÉ, radio and television, for four decades.

Prior to joining RTÉ, Skehan served in the Irish Army, reaching the rank of captain during The Emergency (Ireland)/The Emergency.

Skehan began his television career as a reporter on Broadsheet (Irish TV series)/Broadsheet, RTÉ One/Telefís Éireann's first current affairs series. He went on to become a familiar face and voice on later programmes such as Discovery (Irish TV series)/Discovery.

Later he moved to radio and, in 1980, he won a Jacobs' Awards/Jacob's Award for his radio archive series Play It Again, John.

In the late 1980s and 90s he presented a weekly series on RTÉ Radio 1 entitled Words and Music, in which he interviewed notable people and played a selection of their favourite records.

Towards the end of his life, Skehan returned to television as a snooker commentator.

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