Death of Maureen Fox, doyenne of journalists in the south

THE death has taken place of one of the best-known and most popular female journalists in the south of Ireland.

Former Cork Examiner journalist and columnist Maureen Fox died at her home in Brittany, France, yesterday. She was 72.

She was described by former Examiner colleagues yesterday as fiesty, independent and a barrel of laughs, and as the doyenne of journalism in the south.