Kieran Devaney

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Seamus Finn: he was just 24 when he became the youngest editor in the country. Photograph: The Sligo Champion
Editor who insisted on balance and had a zeal for highlighting injustice
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  • September 16, 2017, 01:00

Seamus Finn, the former editor of the Sligo Champion who has died aged 70, was as a cub reporter banned by Sligo Rovers from their home turf, the Show(...)

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin reading Easter 1916 by WB Yeats in Hargadons Bar, Sligo. Photograph: Brian Farrell
The Sligo pub which hosted a daily Yeats reading for a year

Even over Christmas, the regulars at Hargadons pub in O’Connell Street, Sligo refused to let Yeats down. The pub – which in 1864 opened its doors the(...)