Background
Born in Dublin in 1969, Jonathan Philbin Bowman, the son of the historian and broadcaster John Bowman, was educated at Sandford Park School and at Newpark Comprehensive School in Dublin.
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Education
He chose to leave formal education in his early teens, a decision he announced to the nation on RTÉ"s flagship talk programme The Late Late Show.
Career
Bowman worked mostly as a freelance journalist. He co-presented a radio show The Rude Awakening on Dublin"s FM104 for two years between 1993 to 1994 before joining the Sunday Independent newspaper as a columnist. He later presented television programmes on RTÉ, such as the quiz show Dodge the Question.
Bowman died in a fall at his home on Fitzgerald Street in Harold"s Cross, Dublin, on 3 March 2000.
Tribute was paid to him to by the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. (Saul DMehigan).
