OBITUARY: Peter Corrigan, former Observer sports editor and acclaimed columnist

‘Everyone loved him for his generosity of spirit, compassion, and fun’. Peter Jackson looks at the career of acclaimed columnist Peter Corrigan.

Charlie Corrigan followed his yellow brick road out of Donegal towards the fag-end of the 19th century without a clue where it would take him, never mind his descendants.

His journey from Moville to Barry Docks during the boom that made the Welsh port the world’s biggest exporter of coal just before the Great War paved the way for another equally implausible journey, as taken by the eldest of his three grandsons long after Charlie’s death in the 1950s.