Dick Warner is an environmentalist, writer and broadcaster. He presented three series of the half-hour documentary programme, Waterways, in which he explored Ireland

Ireland

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's canals by barge. Waterways was first broadcast in 1991 on the Republic of Ireland

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's national TV station, RTÉ

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 and later transmitted internationally on channels such as Discovery

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 and Channel 4

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. In 1992, Warner won a Jacob's Award for Waterways.
Warner currently writes a weekly column for the Irish Examiner published every Monday, and a new season of 'Waterways' has begun airing on RTE.

Warner is married with two children and currently resides in Co. Kildare, Ireland.