WELL KNOWN SKY News presenter Dermot Murnaghan has died after battling a long illness.

Murnaghan was well known to Irish audience with his daily broadcasts on the satellite network.  

He also worked on British station Channel 4, the BBC and ITV Evening News during a career that spanned five decades in news broadcasting.

His death at 68-years-old was announced online today after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. 

In recent years he had become a campaigner for prostate cancer screening and fundraiser for research since his diagnosis in 2024.

In a statement his family asked that people would donate to Prostate Cancer UK and the North London Hospice. 

“He died peacefully with his family at his side. The family wish to thank the medical teams who cared for Dermot with such sensitivity and extraordinary compassion throughout his illness.

“Also, for the many, many kind messages of goodwill that he received over the last year since his diagnosis of stage four prostate cancer and his subsequent campaigning to raise awareness for screening programmes for the disease,” the statement said. 

Sky News executive editor Jonathan Levy said: “He was a presenter of great poise and enormous intelligence, and a hugely formidable interviewer — never riled, never performative, always focused on asking the right questions.”

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— Dermot Murnaghan (@DermotMurnaghan) July 11, 2026

Sky Colleagues Anna Botting, Alex Crawford and Beth Rigby, who worked closely with Murnaghan, also paid tribute to the journalist. 

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron also paid tribute and said his campaign will have helped other men.

“I think it’s really important that Dermot came out in the way that he did – as in his broadcasting life, he did it with incredible clarity and just simplicity.

“And as someone who was so well known to people through his broadcasting career over 40 years, it will have had a huge impact.

“He will have saved people’s lives because people will have heard him say that,” he said.