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Patsy McGarry is Religious Affairs correspondent with ''The Irish Times''. He succeeded Andy Pollak as editor in the mid-1990s. He also is the commissioning editor for articles which are published in the paper's ''Rite and Reason'' column every Monday. McGarry also writes occasionally on social issues for the newspaper. He has worked for Independent Newspapers, the ''The Irish Press'' group, ''Magill'' magazine, and freelanced briefly for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). ==Career== A native of Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, he is a graduate of University College Galway (UCG), and was Auditor of the College's Literary and Debating Society in 1974-1975. In 1989 he set up the first independent radio newsroom in the Republic at Capital Radio (now FM104) in Dublin, having previously worked for four years on pirate station Sunshine Radio in the city. He was theatre critic at the ''The Irish Press'' from 1990 until 1995. He received a national media award for comment and analysis in 1992 for ''Sunday Independent'' articles on the fall of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach and was awarded the 1998 Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year for articles in ''The Irish Times'' on Drumcree, the papal visit to Cuba that year, and articles criticising the Irish Churches for failing to practise what they preached on reconciliation. In 2001 he edited ''Christianity'', a collection of essays published by Veritas. A collection of weekly columns he wrote for ''The Irish Times'' in 2000 was published by that paper in 2001 under the title ''The Book of Jesus Report'', a contemporary account of the four Gospels. In 2006 Patsy wrote ''While Justice Slept: The True Story of Nicky Kelly and the Sallins Train Robbery''. He also wrote the official biography of President Mary McAleese, entitled ''First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency''. He appears on TV3 occasionally. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patsy McGarry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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