In October 2015, Donagh O’Doherty was backed into a corner. In the final years of the Celtic Tiger, he had invested heavily in a company called Webprint, which ran a printing facility in Mahon, Co Cork that cost €40 million to build in a joint venture with Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd. The printing press began printing TCH’s titles in 2006 including The Irish Examiner, The Sunday Business Post, and The Evening Echo. Then Enterprise, Trade, and Employment Minister Micheál Martin officiated at the big switch-on, which was seen at the time to form part of TCH’s march out of Munster…

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