'The city is poorer for his passing': Council pays tribute to 'icon of Cork', Ted Crosbie

Born Thomas Edward Crosbie in 1931, Ted was the great-grandson of Thomas Crosbie, who took over what was then the Cork Examiner newspaper in 1872

Ted Crosbie pictured in 2018. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Tributes have been paid at Monday's meeting of Cork City Council to Ted Crosbie, the former owner of the Irish Examiner, who died at the weekend aged 91.

Fianna Fáil Cllr John Sheehan described Mr Crosbie as “an icon of Cork”.