A cub reporter has breakfast with John Wayne... in tribute to the late Paddy Murray, for Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Paddy read My Friend, The Duke above.
It was the eighth of July 1974.
I was then a young reporter with the Evening Herald. And it was the last day of my first year with the paper.
Mid morning would always see an exodus from the newsroom. The first edition was gone and most of the reporters went for tea or coffee. One or two headed for their first pint of the day.
I was the cubbest of cub reporters but just as the newsroom emptied, my news editor took a call. He looked around for a reporter. I was his only option.
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