Donal Mooney was an Irish journalist and editor.
Born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, he grew up in Abbeyleix, County Laois and in Rathmines, Dublin. He was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, and went to University College Dublin, graduating in English and Commerce. [1]
He first worked as journalist for The Hibernia Magazine. Mooney edited The Catholic Standard from 1971 until 1973, when he moved to the UK, and worked for The Irish Post, which he also became editor of. In later years he edited The Irish World newspaper in Britain. [2]
He died aged 63, in 2004 after a long illness. [3]
The Sunday Tribune was an Irish Sunday broadsheet newspaper published by Tribune Newspapers plc. It was edited in its final years by Nóirín Hegarty, who changed both the tone and the physical format of the newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid. Previous editors were Conor Brady, Vincent Browne, Peter Murtagh, Matt Cooper and Paddy Murray. The Sunday Tribune was founded in 1980, closed in 1982, relaunched in 1983 and entered receivership in February 2011 after which it ceased to trade.
Vincent Browne is an Irish print and broadcast journalist. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and a non-practising barrister. From 1996 until 2007, he presented a nightly talk-show on RTÉ Radio, Tonight with Vincent Browne, which focused on politics, the proceedings of tribunals on political corruption and police misconduct. From 2007 to 2017 he presented Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3, which was broadcast from Monday to Thursday at 11:00pm.
Templeogue is a southwestern residential suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south.
Conor Brady is an Irish journalist, novelist and academic. He was the editor of The Irish Times between 1986 and 2002.
Donal John Lydon is a psychologist and a former Irish politician. He was a Fianna Fáil member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 2007, being elected on the Labour Panel.
The Liffey Champion is a local newspaper for north County Kildare and the Lucan area of west Dublin. It is based in Leixlip. The first edition was printed on 17 May 1991.
Cliff Taylor is the managing editor of The Irish Times, where he has "a lead writing role with the newspaper and on digital platforms in areas ranging from business to politics."
Eoghan Corry is an Irish journalist and author. Since 2002 he has edited Ireland's biggest circulation travel publication, Travel Extra. A former sportswriter and sports editor he has written books on sports history, and was founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.
John S. Horgan is a former Labour Party politician, professor of Journalism at Dublin City University and, from 2007 to 2014. the first Press Ombudsman in Ireland.
David James O'Donoghue was an Irish biographer and editor.
Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, lecturer and freelance journalist.
The Anti-Bin Tax Campaign opposed the introduction of bin charges by local authorities in Ireland. The campaign centred largely in city areas, in particular Dublin. It was locally based with some co-ordination in the Dublin area. Non-payment was the tactic used against the charge.
The Daily Express of Dublin was an Irish newspaper published from 1851 to June 1921, and then continued for registration purposes until 1960.
James Godkin was an Irish author and journalist who was influential on ecclesiastical and land questions.
Damien Kiberd is an Irish journalist and commentator. He is one of the four founders of, and was formerly editor of, The Sunday Business Post. He is also a former business editor of The Irish Press, and of the Sunday Tribune. Kiberd has also worked more recently as a presenter of news-discussion programmes on Newstalk and 4fm. Kiberd was a supporter of the republican lobby group, the Irish National Congress in the 1990s. He is patron of The Ireland Institute at the Pearse Centre in the former home of Patrick and Willie Pearse in Pearse Street.
Cathal Ó Searcaigh, is a modern Irish language poet. His work has been widely translated, anthologised and studied. "His confident internationalism", according to Theo Dorgan, has channelled "new modes, new possibilities, into the writing of Irish language poetry in our time".
Kevin O'Sullivan was the editor of The Irish Times newspaper from 2011 to 2017. He was the thirteenth editor of the paper, succeeding Geraldine Kennedy on 23 June 2011, and succeeded in turn by Paul O'Neill on 5 April 2017.
John Mulcahy, was an Irish journalist, magazine and newspaper editor, who founded The Sunday Tribune and The Phoenix.
Frank Fitzgibbon is an Irish newspaper editor and journalist. He is one of the four founders of The Sunday Business Post in 1989. Fitzgibbon edited the Irish edition of The Sunday Times for 15 years from 2005 until 2020. He worked as a freelance journalist and then editor of the Kevin Kelly's, monthly Irish Business Magazine before setting up the Sunday Business Post. Fitzgibbon also worked for the Sunday Tribune, Business & Finance Magazine and as a presenter and reporter on current affairs for RTE Television. He worked as Business editor of The Sunday Times from 2002 until he succeeded Fiona McHugh.
Alan Ruddock (1960–2010) was an Irish journalist and newspaper editor. He edited The Sunday Times Irish edition from its inception in 1993 until 1996. Educated at Brook House, Monkstown, Co. Dublin and St Columba's College, Dublin, proceeding to Trinity College Dublin where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in History. He worked for a time in South African before returning to Ireland. Emigrating to England, he worked for Today, before returning to Ireland becoming business editor of The Sunday Tribune in 1992 he became deputy editor of The Sunday Times and then editor of its Irish edition in 1993.