Simon Rowe is an Irish journalist. He is a former journalist at

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magazine and producer on Newstalk 106 talk radio station. He is the former editor of ''

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'', from which he resigned after a disagreement over an article which criticised the sale of church property by Ireland's senior

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s. After leaving the Irish Catholic he founded and edited the magazine ''The Voice Today'' (which closed in 2006). He has been a contributor on radio and TV including

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and

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. A graduate in History and Politics from

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, Rowe also worked as an editor with Ocean Publishing prior to editing The Irish Catholic. As of 2016, he was writing for the Sunday IndependentINM trio shortlisted for journalism awards
by Michael Cogley, www.independent.ie, 16 November 2016. and Belfast Telegraph on business matters.

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