I remember it well. It was a lovely sunny, mid-June day in 1977 and I was especially pleased with myself. I had just cast a vote for the first time in a general election and I felt all grown up.
Veteran journalist and broadcaster Eamonn Mallie tells of his heated encounters with Margaret Thatcher, members of the royal family’s staff and government officials in a new book.
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There’s a famous scene around half an hour into the 1975 movie Jaws the same year Eamonn Mallie began his career in journalism where Quint (maverick actor Robert Shaw who lived the final years of his life in Ireland) announces his presence to the room.