On 7 October 2008, Bird was announced as the latest person to fill the post of RTÉ News and Current Affairs Washington correspondent. In this collection of documentary programmes, he visited the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Arctic.
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He presented the Charlie Bird Explores series in 2006, 20. In 2008, a man pleaded guilty to violent disorder and assaulting Bird. Bird's appearance on the Six O'Clock News was criticised by The Sunday Times in its edition the following day, as it felt "Bird makes himself the story".
Witnesses included Sunday Independent journalist Daniel McConnell, who reported on the event the following day. On RTÉ News broadcasts later that evening, he spoke of his personal experience-and of how his assailants had recognised him and called him an "Orange Bastard". īird was attacked during the Dublin Riots of 25 February 2006, suffering a fractured cheekbone, soft tissue damage and bruising. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin in 2002. On the international front, Bird reported on both Gulf Wars and was in Syria for the release of Brian Keenan. In 1998, Bird and his colleague George Lee broke the story about tax evasion at National Irish Bank. He witnessed at first hand the ceasefires and the subsequent twists and turns of the peace process. Career įor many years in the 1990s, Bird was the only point of contact between RTÉ and the Provisional IRA. In the early 1970s he joined Official Sinn Féin and in 1973 was their director of elections in Dublin South-Central. Charlie Bird was recruited into RTÉ by Eoghan Harris in the mid-1970s. A photograph of the funeral shows Ali and Bird giving a clenched fist salute at the grave. In this role, along with Tariq Ali of the International Marxist Group, he attended the funeral of Peter Graham of Saor Éire who was assassinated on 25 October 1971 in an internecine dispute. In the late 1960s, Bird took an active interest in far left politics, being a member of Young Socialists. He was educated at Sandymount High School. I had the chance to make my community look better.Bird was born in Sandymount, Dublin in 1949. How many times are you riding around your town and you say to yourself, Why don’t they fix that? Why don’t they clean the streets up? And here I had the chance to do that. I felt like I was really accomplishing something. “It was outdoors, you were around your friends. He drove a garbage truck, a job he later told Sports Illustrated that he loved. Bird had a daughter after the marriage had broken up and in order to support himself and his daughter, he left school and worked for the city. He returned to French Lick and briefly attended a junior college.īird also was involved in an unhappy marriage at the time. Bird lasted 24 days at the school as he was overwhelmed by the size. He was recruited by several schools, but ultimately decided to stay in-state and play for Bobby Knight at Indiana University. In high school, Bird averaged 30.6 points and 20 rebounds per game. Joe Bird committed suicide when Larry was 18. His parents divorced when he was in high school and then Joe made good on a threat to kill himself. Bird’s mother Georgia was a waitress and worked multiple jobs to support Larry and his five siblings.
Larry Bird was raised in French Lick, Indiana, which was among the poorest towns in the state. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. Bird also made the NBA’s All-Defensive Team three times. He finished his career with a shooting percentage of. A tremendous free-throw shooter, he led the league in shooting percentage from the foul line in four seasons. Bird was named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year.īird averaged a double-double in points and rebounds for the first six years of his career. In his first year, Bird played in all 82 games and averaged 21.3 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. He was an NBA All-Star in 12 of those seasons and he helped guide the Celtics to three NBA titles. The Celtics had Bird’s rights until the 1979 draft kicked off and the two were able to hash out a deal.īird went on to play all 13 of his NBA seasons with the Boston Celtics. Bird was actually drafted sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1978 NBA draft, but Bird elected to play out his final year at Indiana State and re-enter the draft in 1979. Larry Bird put himself on the basketball map in college when his Indiana State team met Magic Johnson and Michigan State in the NCAA title game in 1979.
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