Examiner founder takes to Twitter 143 years after his death

For movie fans, 2015 is the year Marty McFly came Back to the Future again, but, thanks to modern technology another time traveller has come from a more distant past — and is tweeting about when he founded The Cork Examiner.

To the surprise of all at the Irish Examiner, our very first boss has taken to Twitter — 143 years after his death.

“My name is John Francis Maguire and in 1841, on August 30 I published the first edition of The Cork Examiner,” his first tweet, sent late last week read.