Irish Examiner view: King of Cork news Maurice Gubbins brought traditional values into a brave new world

'The Echo' editor, who is retiring after 44 years with the Examiner group, has been a strong campaigner for social justice and a supporter of community values in the county he loves so dearly

Managing director Karen O'Donoghue, Maurice Gubbins, retiring after 44 years with the Examiner Group, Gráinne McGuinness, newly-appointed editor of 'The Echo', and 'Irish Examiner' editor Tom Fitzpatrick. Picture: Larry Cummins

In these confused times the expression “old school” is often used as a pejorative, a means of signalling that someone has failed to move with the fashions and demands of our tech-driven lives. 

But there is another, and better, interpretation: That an individual has found a way to carry traditional values and beliefs into the shiny, brave new world.