Richard Crowley (born 1959), is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. He was formerly Middle East Correspondent for RTàNews, and co-presenter of the current affairs programme Prime Time on RTàtelevision. Prior to leaving RTàin 2017, he had presented the News at One on RTàRadio One and co-presented the radio programme This Week, with Colm àMongáin, on Sundays.
Crowley began his journalistic career in the Derry Journal in 1976. During the 1980s, he was a reporter and news presenter on RTÃÂ television. He also presented a news feature programme called Radharc. He later moved to RTÃÂ Radio where he presented Morning Ireland for six years, and the RTÃÂ News at One.
He returned to RTÃÂ TV News, in 2001, as the Middle East correspondent reporting from the region until 2009. His book, No Man's Land, was published in October 2007. In 2009, he began presenting a new television series on RTÃÂ about Irish business and finance, called The Smart Money. From June 2009, he presented and edited This Week on RTÃÂ Radio 1. Crowley began co-presenting Prime Time in 2010, and resigned from that role in 2012. He presented the News at One on Radio 1 and This Week on RTÃÂ radio until he resigned from RTE in December 2017.
In 2015 he was named News Broadcaster of the Year at the Irish annual radio broadcasting awards, the PPIs.