Newspaper proprietor Ted Crosbie enters Cork Person of the Year Hall of Fame

With ink in his veins and who once famously described himself as “a chemist by training, a shovel engineer by vocation, and a manager by desperation” is the first person in the history of the Cork Person of the Year Awards to be inducted into a Hall of Fame.

Miriam O’Callaghan, who was joint MC for the awards ceremony along with RTÉ Prime Time colleague David McCullagh, announced the special award for Ted Crosbie, pointing out that he had done as much as any other “to enhance Cork’s reputation and to ensure that it makes headlines day by day, and year by year”.

She said the Cork Examiner/Irish Examiner had survived the Famine, First World War, the War of Independence, Civil War, the Great Depression of 1930, de Valera’s Economic War, the Second World War, and a number of recessions.