Newspapers retain their quality mark
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.
