Tribune says farewell to Baggot Street

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Gerard Siggins

Former Editors Peter Murtagh

Former Editor Matt Cooper

Former Editor Paddy Murray;

Then editor-in-chief Jim Farrelly receives the award in Vienna won by the Sunday Tribune design team for Europe's Best Designed Newspaper of 2003

AFTER spending 26 years in Baggot Street, close to the seat of political power, the Sunday Tribune this weekend moves offices to the heart of Dublin city in Talbot Street.

When the newspaper was revived in 1983, it was based in the top two floors of Number 8-11 Lr Baggot Street, where it remained until January 1989. The growth of the paper necessitated a new HQ and it was found close by at No 15, previously the site of Zhivago's nightclub.

For just over 20 years, this has been our home and the place where dozens of journalists cut their teeth and produced many of the stories that rocked the nation.

It is sad to leave behind Baggot Street, where Tribune staff made a large contribution to the community over the decades. It was an era which saw newspapers change at a great pace and several colleagues moved on over those years.

We leave a few ghosts too, notably Dublin Tribune editor Michael Hand, as well as valued colleagues Roberta Gray, Peter Ball, Veronica Guerin, Nuala O'Faoláin, Ray Taljaard, John Conway, Denis Byrne and Melissa Chung. RIP.

Perhaps fittingly for the site of a club with the motto 'where love stories begin', the paper has also been responsible for at least ten marriages.

A newspaper is not just a building, of course, and the heart of the Tribune will continue to beat in Talbot Street, where its staff continue to produce your favourite newspaper every Sunday.

Ger Siggins is Assistant Editor of the Sunday Tribune and has worked for the newspaper since 1987

April 5, 2009

Comments

#1 Kieran Fagan commented, on April 9, 2009 at 11:38 a.m.:

What about the first Sunday Tribune? Edited by John Mulcahy and then Conor Brady, employing "no hopers" like Geraldine Kennedy, Jim Farrelly, Mary Holland, Seamus Martin, Paddy Prendeville, Eamon Dunphy, John McCririck, David Quin, Tom Widger - who happily still writes for the Tribune - and myself? i thought I was chief sub, but maybe I imagined it all?

Regards Kieran Fagan

#2 Ger Siggins commented, on April 9, 2009 at 3:38 p.m.:

Cheers Kieran. The piece says "When the newspaper was revived in 1983" and clearly marks the end of our time in Baggot Street. The 1981-82 Trib was based elsewhere. No insult intended to our antecedents!