A look back at a legendary epoch of Irish journalism

The Irish Press Group was a remarkably volatile and dysfunctional place

The Irish Press NUJ chapel in the newsroom at Burgh Quay on May 26, 1995, discussing the company’s summary dismissal of its 600 employees

Non-fiction The Press Gang: Tales From the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers; Edited by David Kenny; New Island Books, €16.95

When Eoghan Corry was features editor of the Sunday Press, he received a letter of complaint written by an inmate at St John of God’s Hospital. It began: “As you can see from my address, I am mentally unsound.” Surveying the newsroom around him, Corry could not resist starting his reply with the ...