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Happy birthday Mary Maher


Family, friends and NUJ colleagues united this month in celebrating the 80th birthday of Member of Honour Mary Maher. A founder member of the Irish Women’s Liberation


movement, first MoC of The Irish Times chapel and former Cathaoirleach of the IEC, Mary has made a unique contribution to Irish journalism, to the NUJ and the wider trade union movement, a legacy celebrated in a special Irishwoman’s Diary in The Irish Times on her birthday. Born in Chicago on November 9th, 1940, Mary is


currently resident at Shannagh Bay Nursing Home, Bray following the onset of dementia. With characteristic resilience she recently


Gerry O’Hare, leading figure in Irish journalism


The death has taken place of Gerry 0’Hare, (79), a leading figure in Irish journalism and a veteran of the Irish Press chapel. Gerry O’Hare started working for the Irish Press


Group in the late 1970s and went on to work on the newsdesk before becoming the Irish Press travel editor. Following the closure of the Irish Press in 1985 he


founded the magazine Travel Extra. He had also served as editor of An Phoblacht. prior


to moving to Burgh Quay. Uniquely for a travel writer, he was banned from


travelling to both the US and UK arising from his conviction and imprisonments for IRA membership. Gerry was a committed member of the Press


The late Gerry O’Hare pictured after exiting the Irish Press building following the 1995 occupation, with his wife Anne Cadwallader, who cared for him during his long illness, and former wife Rita O’Hare.


chapel, noted for lively interventions at NUJ meeting during turbulent times. He was one of the group who occupied the irish


Press building in 1995 during the final strike prior to the closure of the titles.


Journalists to address online harassment in workshop


Journalists Patricia Devlin, Kathryn Johnston and Felicity McCall will speak about online abuse directed at women in an online workshop later this month. Compass Rose Network will host a Zoom workshop


at 7pm on Wednesday, Nov. 25th, that looks at how women in journalism have been abused, harassed, and threatened on social media. The new group, Compass Rose Network, based in


Northern Ireland, provides online workshops based largely around conflict and trauma. The upcoming workshop will involve discussions


around online abuse as well as a question-and- answer session. Anyone who would like to receive an invitation for


the workshop can contact the network by email at ka- walk@hotmail.com or by phone at +4477 02262083.


Mary Maher


survived Covid-19 infection. Mary cannot receive visitors, but NUJ friends are


encouraged to send cards to Mary at Shannagh Bay Nursing Home, 2-3 Fitzwilliam Terrace, Strand Road, Bray, A98 FV48, Wicklow.


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