Video: Holly Bough editor is named Cork Person of the Month

At the awards ceremony naming John Dolan as Cork Person of the Month were George Duggan, Cork Crystal; Michael Lynch, AV3 Media; Manus O’Callaghan, awards organiser; John Lehane, Lexus Cork; John Dolan; Ann-Marie O’Sullivan, AM O’Sullivan PR; and Pat Lemasney, Southern.

John Dolan, assistant editor and features editor of the Evening Echo, said it was a great honour to take over as Editor of the Holly Bough back in 2002. “The Holly Bough, even though it has input from professional writers and historians, contains, in essence, stories that are written by ‘ordinary’ Cork people who have extraordinary stories to tell — it is written by the people for the people.” said John at the award presentation.

John Dolan, born in Cheshire, now lives in Carrigadrohid near Macroom. He spent many years in print journalism in England, working on such newspapers as the Lancashire Evening Post and the London Metro. He moved to Cork in 2001, and with the backing of Evening Echo chief executive Dan Linehan and Echo editor Maurice Gubbins was appointed the editor of the Holly Bough a year later.