Life
b. Belfast; grew up in Newcastle, Co. Down; studied law at QUB; BBC Broadcaster in N. Ireland (Scene Around Six and Inside Ulster); presented chatshow on BBB Ulster [sound] as Rafferty; afterwards joined BBC3 as drive-time music presenter (In Tune), 1997; Radio Broadcaster of the Year, 2004; MBE 2017; keen musical amateur; chairman of Open Theatre Co. (Dublin), and board-member of Opera Northern Ireland; .
Namesake: Sean Rafferty (d.1994), a Scottish poet; Ed. Edinburgh U. (Classics); settled in England in 1948; became landlord of Duke of York inn in Iddesleigh, Devon, where he moved with his second wife; iss. Poems (Etruscan Books 1999); Collected Poems, ed Nicholas Johnson (Manchester: Carcanet 1995), 146pp.; obit. The Independent (7 Jan. 1994).