Goodnight to Vincent Browne, an unorthodox, tenacious man of paradoxes

Have you ever the heard the story about how Vincent Browne sought and secured the help of then-taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to save the now defunct Sunday Tribune, asks Daniel McConnell.

It was the mid-1980s and Ireland was in the economic doldrums.

The Tribune had lived on the edge financially and had, by this stage, come to the attention of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, which was seeking to wind up the company.