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- ↑ Frank Fitzgibbon stepping down as Sunday Times editor Archived 2020-12-04 at the Wayback Machine by Mark Paul, The Irish Times, October 22, 2020.
- ↑ Fitzgibbon, Denis (‘Din Joe’) Archived 2021-01-28 at the Wayback Machine by Patrick Long, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University/Royal Irish Academy.
- ↑ Frank Fitzgibbon Archived 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine Members of the Press Council, www.presscouncil.ie.
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