Kevin Gearey: Former BBC sports reporter dies
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23 December 202023 December 2020.From the section Sport
Kevin Gearey travelled across the world to cover sporting events for the BBC, including England s cricket tour to the West Indies in 1994
Tributes have been paid to former BBC sports correspondent Kevin Gearey, who has died aged 66 after a long illness.
Gearey worked at the BBC for 32 years before leaving the corporation in 2011.
He joined the BBC in March 1979 and appeared on BBC news bulletins across television and radio, covering a range of sporting events. For more than three decades, Kevin covered the sporting world for the BBC with great insight and panache, said BBC head of sports journalism Stephen Mawhinney.