Background
His father worked for Great Southern Railways (later International Commission on Illumination) and his mother was a nurse, originally from Company
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His father worked for Great Southern Railways (later International Commission on Illumination) and his mother was a nurse, originally from Company
Bowman was educated at Belvedere College and Trinity College Dublin where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in political science.
He chaired the audience-participation political programme Questions and Answers on RTÉ One for 21 years. He is the father of comedian and journalist Abie Philbin Bowman and the broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Philbin Bowman. Bowman was brought up in Ballsbridge in south Dublin.
In the 1980s, he presented the current affairs programme Today Tonight, the precursor to Prime Time.
In April 2008, he commented on RTÉ television coverage of the state funeral of former President of Ireland Patrick Hillery. Bowman chaired the audience-participation political programme Questions and Answers on RTÉ One television for 21 years, the final edition airing on 29 June 2009.
He is the presenter of Bowman Sunday Morning (previously Bowman Saturday) on radio, a weekly compilation of material from broadcasting archives at home and abroad. He has also co-anchored RTÉ election coverage since the early 1980s.
In May 2011, he fronted RTÉ television coverage of Queen Elizabeth II"s visit to the Republic of Ireland.
Bowman wrote a history of RTÉ Television called Window and Mirror. RTÉ Television: 1961-2011. lieutenant was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the National Museum in Dublin on 23 November 2011.
Bowman was President of The Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Relations in 1993 and of Comhar, an environmental pressure group, from 1999 until 2004.
He joined Radio Éireann in 1962, later becoming the presenter and commentator on numerous current affairs programmes, as well as an analyst of political developments and interviewer of politicians on radio and later on television
