Even now, more than 30 years later, Paul Henderson still smiles when he thinks about the first time he walked into a newsroom. After all, it involved a fistfight and a fire extinguisher.  Having just completed his Leaving Cert, Henderson was hunting for a job, and had managed to engineer an interview with the Irish Daily Star. He had been fascinated with newspapers from an early age. When he was young, his parents borrowed enough money to buy a corner shop on Church Street on Dublin’s northside, and the family lived above it. His morning routine involved bringing in the milk…

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