Godfrey Richard Graham is an Irish former cricket

Cricket

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er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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 bowler, he played just once for the Ireland cricket team, a first-class

First-class cricket

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 match against Scotland in July 1954.

Graham joined RTÉ

RTÉ One

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 Television shortly after it was launched as one of its first lighting cameramen. For the next 40 years, he worked on some of the station's most significant programmes, including Discovery

Discovery (Irish TV series)

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and the visit to Ireland

Ireland

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 of US President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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In 1981, Graham won a Jacob's Award for his role as lighting cameraman on the RTÉ television production of Eugene McCabe's play Winter Music