John Mulcahy (17 May 1932 – 7 September 2018) was an Irish journalist, magazine and newspaper editor, who founded

The Sunday Tribune The ''Sunday Tribune'' was an Irish Sunday broadsheet newspaper published by Tribune Newspapers plc. It was edited in its final years by Nóirín Hegarty, who changed both the tone and the physical format of the newspaper from broadsheet to tab ...

newspaper and The Phoenix.

Biography

Born in Australia in 1932, Mulcahy was educated at

Clongowes Wood College Clongowes Wood College SJ is a voluntary boarding school for boys near Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, founded by the Jesuits in 1814, which features prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Yo ...

and

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He worked in the financial sector before becoming a full-time journalist. He was writing for monthly

The Hibernia Magazine ''The Hibernia Magazine'' was a magazine published in Ireland, initially as a monthly magazine then fortnightly. The Magazine was started in 1937 had a Catholic ethos, being supported by the Knights of Saint Columbanus It was edited and owned by ...

before 1968. When he became the owner and editor of Hibernia, he changed its ethos to be more left-wing and republican and moved it to a fortnightly schedule. Following the closure of Hibernia in 1980 due to a lawsuit, he co-founded

. After the turmoil in the Tribune, from which he exited early, in 1983 he founded the political, current affairs and business magazine, The Phoenix. In 2002 he became the proprietor of ''The Irish Arts Review''. Another effort at launching a magazine in the early 1980s was ''Digger'', his father's nickname since he was involved in the mining industry in Australia. He was married to Nuala, who worked alongside him at Hibernia and The Phoenix. His son Aengus worked for The Phoenix, his daughter Brigid is also a journalist, and his son Michael Mulcahy was a Councillor, TD and former

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. He retired from The Phoenix in 2007 and died aged 86 in 2018.Founder of The Phoenix John Mulcahy has died
The Journal, 8 September 2018.

References

Irish journalists Irish newspaper editors Irish magazine founders Irish newspaper founders Magazine publishers (people) Sunday Tribune people 1932 births 2018 deaths People educated at Clongowes Wood College Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-journalist-stub