In 2004, Gerry Collison was editor of The Clare Champion but he had a problem: He wasn’t getting on with the paper’s owner, John Galvin. There had been a row about editorial independence, which went as far as the Labour Court. Founded in 1903, the Champion had Clare sewn up, with a massive penetration throughout the county. In a booming economy, Collison wasn’t the only one who thought there might be an opportunity to take it on – if you had access to decent money. Dómhnal Slattery was a Clareman on the up. The son of a greengrocer, he had…

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