Vale NZ sports broadcaster Garry Ahern

25 June 2025 · News

Veteran New Zealand sports broadcaster Garry Ahern has died aged 75.

Ahern joined Radio New Zealand in 1969, retiring in 2015, and specialised in golf reporting while presenting sports bulletins on Morning Report for two decades.

Ahern first joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in 1969 (later RNZ) as an accounts clerk in Whanganui.

In 2013 Ahern’s contribution to sports journalism was recognised when he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Sports Journalists Association.

The award citation described him “as the consummate broadcasting journalist who asks the right questions, gets the information and presents it knowledgably and in an entertaining fashion.”

 

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