Newspaper man’s memoirs launched

TIM PAT COOGAN, one of the country’s most respected former newspaper editors and author of a number of controversial biographies, has written his own story which was launched in Dublin last night by Professor John Horgan, press ombudsman.

A Memoir, from the personal to the political, begins with his upper middle-class family in 1930s Dublin and traces his formative years against a background of highly-charged political activity in Ireland.

Coogan went on to play a vital role in bringing the IRA/Sinn Féin to the peace talks table, and has always been uniquely placed to comment authoritatively on all aspects of Irish current affairs.