Education
Cumbers was educated in Saint Patrick"s Classical School in Navan, County Meath.
Cumbers was educated in Saint Patrick"s Classical School in Navan, County Meath.
He was editor of his school magazine, Tuairim, and a local radio broadcaster with pirate radio station Royal County Radio. While at Saint Patrick"s, Simon worked initially with the Drogheda Independent and the Ipswich Evening Star, as a features writer, before becoming the Chief Reporter of Dublin"s Capitol Radio (now called FM104). In 1990 Cumbers moved to the United Kingdom to work with a variety of British broadcasters, including Sky News, ITN, APTN, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Cumbers worked both as a journalist and a producer.
Cumbers and British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Frank Gardner were filming an First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda safehouse in First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Suwaidi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia when they were attacked.
Gardner was critically wounded while Cumbers died instantly from a gunshot wound to the head He was 36.
Coroners ruling
The Simon Cumbers Media Fund is administered by Division of Human Rights Communications and is funded by Irish Aid.
The fund is aimed at assisting and promoting more and better quality media coverage of development issues in the Irish media. Coverage of shooting
Yemen Times report of the shooting of Frank Gardner and the killing of Simon Cumbers
Committee to Protect Journalists calls for probe into shootings - IFEX
Reaction and obituary
Reaction to Cumbers killing in his local Irish newspaper, the Meath Chronicle
Obituary for Simon Cumbers by Orla Guerin published in The Guardian
Comments by then Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen Territorial Decoration on the murder of Simon Cumbers
British Broadcasting Corporation Obituary for Simon Cumbers
Messages paying tribute to Simon Cumbers.
