THE Irish Independent engaged in an unseemly and competitive effort to claim the late Jim Downey as its very own and downplay his quintessential Irish Times persona and association with the latter newspaper following his death recently. The IT cleverly quoted the late Vinnie Doyle – himself a former Indo editor – whose apposite comment… Read more »
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