Newspapers retain their quality mark

MANY papers were founded by politicians. The Irish Examiner is no exception.

On August 30, 1841, John Francis Maguire founded The Cork Examiner to communicate with the electorate. Quickly becoming a true newspaper, it became the main source of news and opinion for Cork and Munster. You can imagine how important it was for families during the 1914-1918 war, reading the descriptions of battles in which sons were fighting — and dying, as recorded in the lists of names of those killed or missing in action...

Some families learned of their financial ruin in the Great Depression through this newspaper.