He oversaw the introduction of Ireland’s first all-colour property supplement in 1988 and was a tactful mentor to scores of young journalists
Jack Fagan was a veteran property editor and journalist with The Irish Times with a little black book of contacts that was so synonymous with him it was brought to the altar during his funeral as a symbol of his life.five years earlier, after a career spanning six decades with the newspaper. He was also a talented footballer and was part of the Meath team that won the All-Ireland minor title in 1957 and part of the Navan O’Mahonys team that won five senior championships in a row.
His promotion to aviation correspondent in the late 1960s led to many exciting jaunts across the globe. In December 1969 he was among a group of journalists who flew from New York to Seattle on the new Boeing 747 before the jumbo jet began its commercial flights. “And even in this day and age of American men on the moon, the Americans still managed to reserve some awe and wonder for the 747, the official designation for the flying village,” he wrote.
He was deputy news editor when the then editor Conor Brady appointed him to the property desk in 1988. While he had always been a versatile journalist, covering everything from farmers’ protests to men’s fashion, he made the property section his own and became a well-known figure on the property scene. He oversaw the introduction of the first all-colour property supplement in 1988 and ceaselessly worked at building up his black book of contacts to generate stories.
He became editor of the commercial property section in the 1990s, and his colleague Orna Mulcahy recalled how he would start the week fretting that he had “no stories at all”. A day later he would have “a whole raft of good stories by sheer dint of working his contacts”.
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