John Mulcahy: an appreciation

The man behind the Phoenix magazine, who died last Friday aged 86, was a daring and fearless force in Irish journalism who will be sorely missed, writes Barry J Whyte

John Mulcahy 1932-2018

I recently got a belt of the crozier from the Phoenix.

I had written a brief news story about a company – it doesn’t matter which one – for this newspaper. In the very next issue of the Phoenix, in the magazine’s share analysis section Moneybags, they wrote that the chief executive of the company had “turned to The Sunday Business Post to sell the idea that he is apparently working on assorted ...