Former Irish Examiner journalist Donal Musgrave dies

Former Irish Examiner and Irish Times journalist Donal Musgrave, who has died at the age of 78.

Donal Musgrave, a widely respected journalist and news editor, has died in Cork after a long illness. He was 78. 

The second son of two boys born to Máiréad (née Foley) and Harry Musgrave, of Newcastle West, Co Limerick, he was a brilliant and highly regarded journalist who worked mainly in print, starting out as a journalist in London’s Fleet Street in the early 1960s.