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Magill was an Irish politics and current affairs magazine founded by Vincent Browne and others in 1977 . " Magill " was widely perceived as groundbreaking , specialising in in - depth investigative articles and colourful reportage by journalists such as Eamonn McCann ( who wrote its anonymous " Wigmore " column ) and Gene Kerrigan . It was relaunched in 2004 after an earlier closure before closing again in 2009 . Conor Brady was the ___MASK14___ of " The Irish Times " for 16 years , between 1986 and 2002 , having previously edited the " Sunday Tribune ". Dame Cicely Mary Saunders ( 22 June 1918  14 July 2005 ) was an English Anglican ___MASK75___ , social worker , physician and writer , involved with many international universities . She is best known for her role in the birth of the hospice movement , emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine . A newspaper is a serial publication containing news about current events , other informative articles ( listed below ) about politics , sports , arts , and so on , and ___MASK63___ . A newspaper is usually , but not exclusively , printed on relatively inexpensive , low - grade paper such as newsprint . The ___MASK57___ organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers . As of 2017 , most newspapers are now published online as well as in print . The online versions are called online newspapers or news websites . Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly . News magazines are also weekly , but they have a magazine format . General - interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news . The news includes political events and personalities , business and finance , crime , weather , and natural disasters ; health and medicine , science , and computers and technology ; sports ; and ___MASK87___ , society , food and cooking , clothing and home fashion , and the arts . Patrick Thomas Murray ( born 5 August 1953 ) in Dublin , Ireland , is a ___MASK94___ and writer . He has written for the " Evening Herald ", " Sunday World ", and spent time as editor of the " Sunday Tribune ". John Waters ( born 28 May 1955 ) is an Irish ___MASK94___ . Waters ' s career began in 1981 with the Irish political - music magazine Hot Press . He went on to write for the Sunday Tribune and later edited In Dublin magazine and Magill . Waters has written several books and , in 1998 , he devised The Whoseday Book -- which contains quotes , writings and pictures of 365 Irish writers and musicians -- that raised some € 3 million for the Irish Hospice Foundation . He wrote a weekly Friday column for The Irish Times . He was briefly fired during a dispute with the then editor , Geraldine Kennedy , but was shortly thereafter reinstated . In March 2014 , Waters left the Irish Times , and shortly after started writing columns for the Sunday Independent and Irish Independent . Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill , terminally ill or seriously ill patient ' s pain and symptoms , and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs . In Western society , the concept of hospice has been evolving in Europe since the 11th century . Then , and for centuries thereafter in Roman Catholic tradition , hospices were places of hospitality for the sick , wounded , or dying , as well as those for travelers and pilgrims . The modern concept of hospice includes palliative care for the incurably ill given in such institutions as hospitals or nursing homes , but also care provided to those who would rather spend their last months and days of life in their own homes . The first modern hospice care was created by Cicely Saunders in 1967 . Eamonn McCann ( born 10 March 1943 ) is an Irish ___MASK97___ , ___MASK94___ and political activist from Derry , Northern Ireland . In the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election , he was elected as an MLA for the Foyle constituency . A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment . The best - known type of hospital is the ___MASK36___ hospital , which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a heart attack . A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region , with large numbers of beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long - term care . Specialised hospitals include trauma centres , rehabilitation hospitals , children ' s hospitals , seniors ' ( geriatric ) hospitals , and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment ( see psychiatric hospital ) and certain disease categories . Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to ___MASK36___ hospitals . In law , receivership is the situation in which an institution or enterprise is being held by a receiver , a person " placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others , including tangible and intangible assets and rights ", especially in cases where a company cannot meet its financial obligations or enters bankruptcy . The receivership remedy is an equitable remedy that emerged in the English Chancery courts , where receivers were appointed to protect real property . Receiverships are also a remedy of last resort in litigation involving the conduct of executive agencies that fail to comply with constitutional or statutory obligations to populations that rely on those agencies for their basic ___MASK49___ . Vincent Browne ( born 17 July 1944 ) is an Irish print and broadcast ___MASK94___ . He is a ___MASK77___ with " The Irish Times " and " The Sunday Business Post " and a non - practising barrister . From 1996 until 2007 , he presented a nightly talk - show on RTÉ Radio , " Tonight with Vincent Browne ", which focused on politics , the proceedings of tribunals on political corruption and police misconduct . He now presents " Tonight with Vincent Browne " on TV3 , which broadcasts from Monday to Thursday at 10 . 30pm . " The Guardian " has described him as an " acerbic host ... Ireland ' s Jeremy Paxman ." The Sunday Tribune was an Irish Sunday broadsheet newspaper published by Tribune Newspapers plc . It was edited in its final years by Nóirín Hegarty , who changed both the tone and the physical format of the newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid . Previous editors were Conor Brady , Vincent Browne , Peter Murtagh , Matt ___MASK80___ and Paddy Murray . The " Sunday Tribune " was founded in 1980 , closed in 1982 , relaunched in 1983 and entered receivership in February 2011 after which it ceased to trade . Gene Kerrigan is an Irish ___MASK94___ and novelist who grew up in Cabra in Dublin . His works include political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s in such publications as " Magill " magazine and the " Sunday Independent " newspaper . He has also written about Ireland for " International Socialism " magazine .