Chapter 3: State of the nation

The big issues were always in Vincent Browne's sights, writes Elaine Byrne

A flair for getting under the skin of those in power would be a persistent theme throughout Browne’s career, writes Elaine Byrne

Vincent Browne started as he meant to go on. Before he was 25 years old, Browne had very publicly collected four targets which would sustain his journalistic hunger for outrage over the next half century.

Any viewer of his decade-old TV3 current affairs programme, Tonight with Vincent Browne, will immediately recognise ...