Biography:
About:
Education: The Jesuit school of Crescent College, Limerick, Éire; Belvedere College, Dublin, Éire
Career: Radio; TV (Widipedia); Screenonline profile (BFI)
Current position/role: Columnist
Other roles/Main role: Radio and TV broadcaster
Other activities:
Disclosures:
Viewpoints/Insight: Top of the morning, Terry, The Daily Telegraph, 2006; Personal life (Wikipedia)
Broadcast media:
Video: IMDb
Controversy/Criticism: The lunatics have taken over the corporation, says Wogan in attack on BBC
Awards/Honours: Wikipedia reference
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Articles:
- Well, blow me, if it's not the wrong kind of wind - Let's just blame the airport chaos on the elements - 20th May 2012
- The Turner Prize is a funny old game - Now is the time of the year when loonier adherents burst through the common old bonds of painting and sculpture and run amok - 6th May 2012
- Time to appoint a Chief Rainmaker - We should learn the lessons of history - 29th April 2012
- Is obesity really the curse of modern Britain? - Our cavemen ancestors ate nothing but wild berries and fruit, got lots of exercise running away from wild animals and never saw the other side of 35 - 22nd April 2012
- Eating slithery things in south west France - The French have never been as picky as us about what they put in their mouths - 15th April 2012
- Like the Prime Minister, I too have suffered at the hands of a pie - It left me unable to tell Miss Bristol from Miss Oldham - 8th April 2012
- Dig out the rusty bicycle, or you're going to be confined to barracks - The panic-buying of petrol and diesel is sure to be followed by the equally panicked stockpiling of baked beans, frozen pizzas and other essentials - 1st April 2012
- Who'd want to be Chancellor? Or Archbishop of Canterbury? - The top jobs are all poisoned chalices - 25th March 2012
- How can anyone say that eating red meat will give you cancer? - If you give up red meat and alcohol you may not live any longer. It will just seem like it - 18th March 2012
- Wogan's World: in praise of the older woman - Seeing Meryl Streep receive her Oscar for The Iron Lady brought back a little memory of the great lady herself - 11th March 2012
- New research - or the same old story? - The latest 'new research’ indicates that brewing tea in a cup can kill you - 4th March 2012
- The oddities of Britain's kindly weather - It is strange that Britain, on whom it rains steadily throughout the year, apparently won’t have any water by March - 26th February 2012
- You can't beat a good moan about the weather - The recent mild spell has been an awful let-down - 22nd February 2012
- Why nothing seems to be working these days - Clutching at straws has replaced rational thought in economic thinking - 19th February 2012
- The French don’t really see the funny side of things - Paris involved an overcrowded car, a van full of gendarmes, and a Gallic sense of humour failure - 12th February 2012
- It’s not for numpties on the back page to comment on serious events like the cricket - Fame and so-called celebrity get you as many brickbats as applause - 5th February 2012
- Only in the Australian Open does play take place in the early hours to avoid the sun - Melbourne is the tournament that most frequently keeps me from slipping into the arms of Morpheus - 29th January 2012
- Britain’s Corinthian spirit got lost in translation - The sporting gesture is something the British have tried to teach the world - 15th January 2012
- A few resolutions for a truly happy New Year - Mervyn King should give the Voice of Doom a rest - and no more 'big asks', if you please - 8th January 2012
- I don't miss the early starts on the radio, but I do miss the people - and the food - Many’s the BBC newsreader, announcer, presenter, engineer and producer that I kept from starvation’s door - 1st January 2012
- Look on the bright side this Christmas - Forget Europe - could someone do something about those celebrity chefs mucking up a perfectly good turkey - 18th December 2011
- It seems I don't even need to know Albert Wogan to claim his cash - A letter from a stranger promises untold wealth - 11th December 2011
- Tales from the riverbank - with the Da - He would have been shocked to find rejects like eel, pollack and mullet on ritzy menus - 4th December 2011
- A forest was felled to mark the departure of Russell Grant from Strictly Come Dancing - But you'd search the tabloids in vain for mention of a record-breaking Children in Need appeal - 27th November
- The Bunga Bungler isn't the only victim of 'deliberate misunderstanding' - At this time of year, the gaffes seem to arrive like the leaves falling from the trees - 13th November 2011
- How I staged the greatest fireworks displays never seen - Fireworks on radio are magical, cheap, and don't frighten the cat - 6th November 2011
- Spare us from the wrath of the trick-or-treaters - Nothing more embarrassing than a little fellow shouting through your letterbox: 'We know you’re in there!’ - 30th October 2011
- Why do they keep trotting out this Looney idea about Shakespeare? - A Gateshead schoolteacher's bizarre conspiracy theory has now become the basis for an entire Hollywood blockbuster - 24th October 2011
- Giving birth isn't art, it's life - Performance artist Marni Kotak's next 'work' will be the birth of her child. The words 'Emperor' and 'clothes' spring to mind - 16th October 2011
- This plan for a fat tax is belly credible - The Government should get the nation of its economic backside before worrying about our waistlines - 9th October 2011
- Pasta, roast beef or chicken tikka - which is Britain's favourite food? - The new survey showing that Italian is our favourite food should be treated with caution - 2nd October 2011
- Paying more tax will get us nowhere very fast - Warren Buffet wants to contribute more, but working for charity seems a better way of making a difference - 18th September 2011
- I made it through Escargadon, although the shelling was incessant - In this mighty engagement, a mere 300 humans faced a horde of 20,000 snails - 11th September 2011
- The obesity scare raises its weighty head again - Ignore the doomsayers, and eat what you darn well please - 4th September 2011
- On Celebrity Big Brother, was Sally Bercow really striking a blow for women everywhere? - The appearance of the Speaker's wife on reality TV was an utterly unreal affair - 28th August 2011
- It's infuriating watching 'experts' tell us how to suck eggs - Pontificating about what caused the riots is all very well, but do we have the will to change the lives of the disadvantaged? - 21st August 2011
- Concorde was so good I even took a job on it - The end of Concorde took the glamour out of flying. - 14th August 2011
- Famous? No one has the foggiest idea who I am - Finding out what the public really think of you is quite an eye-opener - 7th August 2011
- What sort of chump pays £75,000 for a bottle of wine and then doesn't drink it? - It doesn't take a genius to work out what to do with the world's most expensive bottle of wine - 31st July 2011
- Phone hacking: what we'll remember when the dust has settled - The Murdoch scandal has given us revelation after revelation, but it's the foam pie and Wendi's punch that will live on - 24th July 2011
- Bad news for the health police - being fat could save your life - Expert health advice brings us nothing but confusion - 10th July 2011
- Everyone has got their favourite Wodehouseism - Once you start talking about Wodehouse, the urge to quote him becomes almost unstoppable - 3rd July 2011
- So, just how many of us are round the twist? - A surprising number of the population are downright lunatics - 26th June 2011
- Lucky old Wogan: two floods in the same week - Life doesn't get easier as you get older - especially when the roof falls in - 19th June 2011
- A relentless diet of bad news - but for the cockeyed optimist, there are breaks in the cloud - 12th June 2011
- From the coverage, you’d think Sepp Blatter, not Ratko Mladic, was the mass murderer - England will never be forgiven for inventing the game, and thinking that it owns its soul – which explains the refusal to back the FA's attempt to postpone Fifa's election - 5th June 2011
- Ah, that selfless hero of free speech - How dare the French keep the truth of their politicians’ peccadilloes from the Man on the Boulevard - 29th May 2011
- Do three cups of coffee a day make a woman's breasts shrink? - Diet, fitness and health have become an obsession - now If only the advice we are given wasn't so contradictory - 22nd May 2011
- The Italians had a way with the Eurovision Song Contest that bordered on carelessness - Terry Wogan on the evening of eccentric delight that has wormed its way into our hearts - 15th May 2011
- Just like the royal wedding, the AV referendum was a Wogan-free zone - 8th May 2011
- Royal wedding: a splendid occasion, but where was my invitation? - You'd think that being Prince William's great-grandmother's favourite broadcaster would count for something - 1st May 2011
- David Cameron should smarten up his act - Knowing when to get dressed up is a valuable skill - but it's an increasingly rare one - 24th April 2011
- Can Kate not be granted some peace? - I still had the remains of post-holiday wellbeing until I made the cardinal error of driving into London - 17th April 2011
- How I placed Phuket under something of a cloud - It hasn't stopped raining in Thailand for weeks, and it's my fault - 10th April 2011
- Let's celebrate the royal wedding with fun and gaiety - The BBC has been accused of 'dumbing down' its commentary for the royal wedding. That's just what it needs - 3rd April 2011
- Wogan's world: If you need cheering up, there's always mashed potato - Keeping the spirits up has not been easy this week - 27th March 2011
- The perils of St Patrick's Day at Cheltenham - One reason why the Irish love Cheltenham is because they can behave in a manner they’d never get away with at home - 20th March 2011
- Why do the beaches and the bush of Africa have an Italian beneath every umbrella? - Terry Wogan enjoys an unusual holiday in Kenya - 13th March 2011
- Please don't take us back to Dallas - TV bosses should leave JR and Sue Ellen to enjoy their retirement - 20th February 2011
- Will Meryl Streep capture the Margaret Thatcher I knew? - Ahead of the new film on the Iron Lady, Terry Wogan recalls his own encounters with Margaret Thatcher - 13th February 2011
- Football clubs have been spending like Irish bankers - Last week's transfer fees make the bankers' bonuses look positively miserly - 6th February 2011
- Everyone's entitled to their own opinion - In the last week it might have been better if some people had kept their opinions to themselves - 30th January 2011
- The Irish will rise again - Ireland's people have a history that puts the present into perspective - 23rd January 2011
- Radio and television are not jobs for life - As Miriam O'Reilly knows, being a TV presenter is a risky old game - 16th January 2011
- A Frenchman's home is his castle - with drawbridge pulled firmly up - The French guard their land and their privacy fiercely - 9th January 2011
- Strictly Come Dancing might be gone, but Delia's lurking in the wings - The end of Christmas means it's business as usual on the TV schedules - 1st January 2011
- From a Christmas glutton to a doting grandpa - Terry Wogan isn't quite the man he was around the turkey and the trimmings - 26th December 2010
- A year after retiring, I've got less free time than ever - Terry Wogan thought giving up his BBC radio show would give him more time for grouting - not so... - 19th December 2010
- This Christmas, let's have a moratorium on turkey - Terry Wogan offers a plan to improve the festive season - 5th December 2010
- Why aren't I hosting Strictly? The truth can now be told... - Terry Wogan, former host of Come Dancing, reveals why he wasn't beckoned back to the ballroom - 28th November 2010
- Ageism is part of the package when you're on TV - The row over Countryfile ignores the reality of the industry - 21st November 2010
- Children in Need needs your support - Terry Wogan gets out the annual begging bowl - 14th November 2010
- The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing show the problem with public opinion - Terry Wogan on the difficulties of trusting the people's judgment - 7th November 2010
- The health scares that pass like the wind - We are constantly in a state of mild panic about our survival - 31st October 2010
- TV could do with some fantasy - When there’s little else apart from 'reality’ on TV, leave us our dreams at least - 24th October 2010
- Rugby rekindles my love of sport - After my scathing column on the death of sportsmanship, a rugby game has set me straight - 17th October
- Something great has been lost in the world of sport - The Ryder Cup apart, the scandals that haunt the sporting world paint a depressing picture - 10th October 2010
- Who'd want to be a celebrity? - Terry Wogan explains why he won't be flying out to the I'm A Celebrity jungle, or tapping his toes on Strictly Come Dancing - 3rd October 2010
- Using an airport is like being a double agent slipping across Checkpoint Charlie - The air of suppressed panic in the traveller's bosom has been only grown in recent years - 26th September 2010
- Why do we listen to these comedians? - Stephen Fry’s opinions are revered in a way that those of, say, Michael Winner, can never be - 19th September 2010
- Is retirement a thing of the past? - As the French strike over their pensions, Terry Wogan ponders our strange attitude towards retirement - 11th September 2010
- What's in a name? - Naming a baby is an awesome responsibility - so steer clear of Panatella and Santorini - 5th September 2010
- Wogan's World: I've often pondered what to eat before I die - I’m always disappointed by the final breakfast choice of the condemned man: a burger and fries. Junk. I’d insist on an ‘Ulster fry’ - 29th August 2010
- Why not let a man walk his owls? - Walking weird pets is a time-honoured British tradition - 22nd August 2010
- Blood diamonds: no one's interested in Charles Taylor, it's the Naomi Campbell Show - If it weren't for the supermodel sideshow, the world's press wouldn't be interested in this trial - 15th August 2010
- My role in controlling the planet's weather - It's not for nothing that I'm known as The Rainmaker - 8th August 2010
- Stand up for the motorist - Last week I saw a cyclist spit in a motorist's face. There's a metaphor for you - 1st August 2010
- While everybody else is having a whale of a time, the musicians look as if they're playing at a funeral - Terry Wogan continues his journey around the coast of Ireland - 18th July 2010
- A soft rain beats steadily down - They say our childhood memories are only of the sunny days. Not if you were born in Limerick - 11th July 2010
- World Cup 2010: In two years' time, the insanity will begin again - The memory of England's abject failure will fade, and the hype and nonsense will return - 3rd July 2010
- George Osborne should be praying that England wins the World Cup - If England bring the World Cup home, the Government might get a bit of breathing space - 13th June 2010
- Bellowed at by bullfrogs - Terry Wogan savours the nightlife in deepest France - 9th June 2010
- Wogan's world: Notes from Rome - Terry Wogan recalls his experiences from the Eternal City in Italy - 30th May 2010
- There's no hunger for politics in rural France - Wogan's World: In deepest Gascony, weeks are given over to celebrating the snail, oyster, prune and duck.'If it moves, eat it is the philosophy - 23rd May 2010
- Goodbye to George and his raincoat - If I never see George Alagiah standing outside No 10 again, it'll be too soon - 16th May 2010
- General Election 2010: Plenty to see if not to enjoy - This election made no one happy, including the TV pundits who covered it - 8th May 2010
- Why yellow is the new black - Nick Clegg's sunny tie has set the fashion world alight - 3rd May 2010
- Trial by television is not a good idea - A three-man head-to-head is a contradiction - 25th April 2010
- Nobody likes a smart alec, so I'll do my gloating quietly - The swine flu panic has subsided - just as Terry Wogan predicted - 11th April 2010
- Whoever heard of a three-man head-to-head? - The early stages of the election campaign have been disappointing - 4th April 2010
- It's easy to be an oaf about art - I don't want to be the sort of person who says "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like" - 28th March 2010
- TV political debates will be a question of image - The confrontation, just like Kennedy/Nixon, will be won and lost on image and appearance - 7th March 2010
- Bring back Jose Mourinho! - The Special One would have turned the John Terry saga into a proper circus - 28th February 2010
- Radio 2 did the impossible - so why tell it to stop? - Ordering the station to abandon younger listeners is a mistake - 21st February 2010
- No love is worth going dutch on a Big Mac - White knights are in short supply, but we still crave romance come Valentine's Day - 13th February 2010
- What a week to be a WAG! - When I saw the 'Terry' headlines, I thought they'd finally got something on me - 7th February 2010
- I used to be proud to be a banker - When I joined the profession, we bankers were poor but honest folk - 31st January 2010
- Swine flu? Sorry, I'm right as rain - I haven't got swine flu, but I do have something to get off my chest... - 24th January 2010
- Don't blame the Met Office - blame the weathermen - Things have never been the same since Bert Ford hung up his mackintosh - 17th January 2010
- Home thoughts from abroad... - Even in Gascony, it's possible to feel sorry for those trapped by the snow - 10th January 2010
- It's the women who bear the real pain of retirement - If you want to know how I'm faring since my retirement, don't ask my wife - 3rd January 2010
- My final fond farewell - As Terry Wogan bows out of his beloved breakfast show, the Togmeister recalls his most cherished radio ramblings - 20th December 2009
- Sir Terry Wogan ponders French swimwear - Divided as we are by a narrow body of water, and given our interlinked histories, it's a constant source of wonder just how divided the British are from the French - 29th August 2009
- Terry Wogan fears for BBC - Sir Terry Wogan has warned that the BBC is suffering a crisis of confidence which has left it in a "vulnerable position" - 11th April 2009
- Rather than teaching happiness, schools should equip pupils with the three Rs - helping them to earn a few bob and maybe some happiness too - 14th December 2008
- As with Democracy, the price of Health and Safety is eternal vigilance, and examples of local councils' insane strictures roll in - 7th December 2008
- John Sergeant, Somalian pirates and sparrows - 23rd November 2008
- Are YOU a responsible pet owner? - Hats off to our leaders for New Guidelines for Pet Owners. Hurrah! Just what the country needs: anthropomorphism - 9th November 2008
- Does every news bulletin has to open like Armageddon is just around the corner? - 2nd November 2008
- Gifts that would beggar a sheik - Gamely staring recession and inflation in the face as we are, it's refreshing to be bombarded with suggestions for Christmas gifts - 19th October 2008
- Advice for Alistair Darling - 12th October 2008
- Urging the media to get glum - 5th October 2008
- US election fever, plus diva - John McCain looks unwell - 28th September 2008
- Of all the nations of the known world, the Brits are the least likely to have a go at the wrongdoer... - 7th September 2008
- The extraordinary architectural triumph of the athletics stadium known as the "Bird's Nest", how can we better that? And what catchy, typically British name shall we call it? - 31st August 2008
- Finding myself struck down by some benighted bacillus last week, there was little for it but to lay back on the jewel-encrusted ottoman with the reviving dish of Lobsang Souchong, and let Team GB's triumphant Olympics wash over me... - 24th August 2008
- Paris Hilton for President - 17th August 2008
- The good news that our caring Government is to offer us more choice as to where we would like to pop our clogs brought an overwhelming surge of gratitude from the grateful citizenry... - 20th July 2008
- We're separated from the United States by more than just the Herring Pond - 13th July 2008
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