Cathal O'Shannon (TV presenter)
[7][8] After air crew training he was posted to the Far East,[2] as a rear gunner in an Avro Lancaster bomber to take part in the Burma Campaign, but the war ended with the downfall of the Japanese Empire before he was required to fly combat sorties.[9][10][11] He received a Jacob's Award for his 1976 TV documentary, Even the Olives are Bleeding, which detailed with the activities of the "Connolly Column" in the Spanish Civil War.[13][14] In 1978, he left RTÉ to join Canadian company Alcan which was setting up an aluminium plant at Aughinish, County Limerick in 1978.He had submitted proposals to the station's editors for television documentary series on the Civil War, and also one on the wartime Emergency period, but they had been rejected.[4] In a 2008 television documentary O'Shannon admitted that throughout his marriage he had been a serial womaniser, who had repeatedly engaged in extra-marital affairs unbeknownst to his wife.