End of an era for the Irish Examiner but thorough and professional journalism will continue

The ownership of the ‘Irish Examiner’ may have changed but its thorough and professional journalism, hallmarks of a free press, will continue, writes Tom Crosbie.

Mr Public was a gentleman who had really no friends. Mr Public was a gentleman who was liable to much abuse, and probably the only friend he could get if he wanted to find one to take his part, was a free press.