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Book review: Eamonn Mallie memoir documents a maverick journalist’s refusal to play nice
This blend of autobiography, anecdotes, character sketches and political analysis is delivered with the author’s characteristic intensity
“What a horrible man!” That was Margaret Thatcher’s assessment of Eamonn Mallie after he had subjected her to some tough questions during an interview in Belfast’s Parliament Buildings. A memo from the Iron Lady’s press secretary, Bernard Ingham, complained that the Downtown Radio reporter had got “close to choking you with his microphone”.
As Mallie stresses in this passionate, revealing but haphazard memoir, he makes no apology for occasionally treading on politicians’ toes. Covering the ...
