Town honours journalist ‘Johnny’ as he puts typewriter away after 46 years

TRIBUTES were paid by people from all walks of life at a special reception to mark the recent retirement of Irish Examiner journalist John Murphy, who has put away the typewriter after 46 years.

Mayor of Midleton, Mary Woods, said the town council reception for John was to acknowledge many years of service to the community not just in her town, but in other parts of East Cork and West Waterford.

She recalled that, as a staff reporter with the newspaper, he attended his first Midleton Town Council meeting in 1969, and continued to write about its goings-on for 37 years.