Mike Burns
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Publishing, for John Mulcahy, was ‘a passion, not just a job,’ mourners told
- Social Affairs
- September 13, 2018, 16:46
For John Mulcahy, journalism and publishing was not just a job or a career, it was his passion, his memorial Mass heard on Thursday. Though ill for (...)

David McCullagh joins RTÉ ‘This Week’ presenting team
- Media & Marketing
- September 4, 2018, 12:58
RTÉ Prime Time presenter David McCullagh will join the team on the This Week programme with Carole Coleman and Justin McCarthy part of a new on-air te(...)

Friends in media, politics gather for James Downey funeral
- Irish News
- April 23, 2016, 18:08
James Downey had journalism and politics in his blood, but last Wednesday he decided he could wait no longer for a government to be formed, mourners a(...)
![The Sunday Press was “a family, a very dysfunctional one at times, but [Willie Collins] loved every minute of his working life and all the people at Burgh Quay” [Irish Press group offices above]. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times The Sunday Press was “a family, a very dysfunctional one at times, but [Willie Collins] loved every minute of his working life and all the people at Burgh Quay” [Irish Press group offices above]. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times](/polopoly_fs/1.2500947.1453129149!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Funeral of journalist Willie Collins told of ‘self-effacing’ man
- Irish News
- January 18, 2016, 14:59
The late Willie Collins was no fan of emotional eulogies. “He had a strong view that in the eyes of God everybody is equal in death,” said son Stephen(...)

Miriam Lord: O’Herlihy’s family at the heart of final farewell
- Irish News
- May 30, 2015, 01:00
Together for the last time, they moved slowly towards the church door as the funeral bell tolled. And in our imagination, we half expected to hear Joh(...)

Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death
- Religion & Beliefs
- September 11, 2013, 20:25
The actor Susan Fitzgerald, who died last Monday, had no fear of dying and had sympathised with the doctor who had to tell her she had little time lef(...)

Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
- Irish News
- September 3, 2013, 01:00
Poet Seamus Heaney’s last words were in a text message to his wife Marie last Friday, minutes before he passed away, his son Michael said yesterday. “(...)

Huge turnout for Justice Kevin Feeney funeral in Dublin
- Social Affairs
- August 19, 2013, 18:46
The four passions of Justice Kevin Feeney’s life “were family, friendship, work and sport,” recalled President of the High Court Justice Nicholas K(...)