“It was a very combative interview, and it had gone about as badly as I could possibly have imagined it going.”
Frank McNally knew no journalists when he was growing up. It was not a career that seemed feasible to the son of a dairy farmer in Monaghan. He speaks to Dion Fanning about his circuitous route into journalism, tussling with Vincent Browne and his dilemma when he was asked to take over the Irishman’s Diary.
