Biography
Myers was born to an Irish emigrant family in Leicester, England, where his father was a general practitioner. He attended Ratcliffe College, a Catholic independent school.
Myers was accepted by University College Dublin (UCD), where he subsequently obtained a degree in History in 1969. He began to work as a journalist for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), and reported from Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles from 1971 to 1978. In the 1980s, he covered the Lebanese Civil War, and in the 1990s the Bosnian War. Otherwise he has been based in Dublin and Liverpool.
Myers is married and lives near Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare. He is the brother-in-law of TV presenter, producer and UK Big Brother housemate Anna Nolan.
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