Simon Rowe

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Simon Rowe is an Irish journalist. He is a former journalist at Business & Finance magazine and producer on Newstalk 106 talk radio station. He is the former editor of The Irish Catholic, from which he resigned after a disagreement over an article which criticised the sale of church property by Ireland's senior prelates.{{cite web|url = http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/06/20/story971856175.asp |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929150558/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/06/20/story971856175.asp | archivedate = 29 September 2007 |work= The Business Post | title = Irish Catholic editor lasts nine months | date = 20 June 2004}} After leaving the Irish Catholic he founded and edited the magazine The Voice Today{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M2MxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MqIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1267,6855470&dq=simon-rowe+church&hl=en|title=Catholicism Confronts Faith Crisis in Ireland|date=15 July 2006|work=Reading Eagle|accessdate=2 September 2011}}[https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/rival-voice-to-strike-fear-into-irish-catholic-paper-qlnpg7nww6t Rival Voice to strike fear into Irish Catholic paper], The Sunday Times, 7 November 2004. (which closed in 2006). He has been a contributor on radio and TV including Newstalk 106 and RTÉ.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

A graduate in History and Politics from University College Dublin, Rowe also worked as an editor with Ocean Publishing prior to editing The Irish Catholic.[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/new-editor-of-irish-catholic-is-appointed-1.370038 New editor of Irish Catholic is appointed] by Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times, 19 August 2003.

As of 2016, he was writing for the Sunday Independent[https://www.independent.ie/business/media/inm-trio-shortlisted-for-journalism-awards-35219304.html INM trio shortlisted for journalism awards] by Michael Cogley, www.independent.ie, 16 November 2016. and Belfast Telegraph on business matters.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}