Mick Clifford: Gene Kerrigan engineered a new view of Ireland

Columnist's departure brings down the curtain on a career that transformed Irish journalism and lit a few rockets in the general posterior area of the powers that be

Gene Kerrigan brings down the curtain on a career that transformed Irish journalism. Picture: Mark Condren/Independent

Gene Kerrigan saved me from engineering. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that he saved the world of engineering from me. Last Sunday Kerrigan wrote what he said was his last regular column for the Sunday Independent. 

His departure brings down the curtain on a career that transformed Irish journalism and lit a few rockets in the general posterior area of the powers that be.