Books by Jimmy Magee

Jimmy Magee (1935-2017) was an institution in Irish broadcasting life. He was born in New York in 1935. Three years later the family returned to Ireland and settled in the Cooley Peninsula in Co. Louth. Jimmy's early working experiences were in a pharmacy in Carlingford and as a railway clerk in Greenore. But his dream was always to work in radio, and by 1957 he managed to fulfil that dream. His varied and much-travelled life, as it evolved, is told in Memory Man, including his 11 Olympic Games, 12 FIFA World Cups, 29 European Cup finals, 11 athletics world championships, 30 world title fights and 10 Tours de France. Jason O'Toole is a well-known journalist, celebrated for his interviews. He is joint author of The End of the Party (with Bruce Arnold) as well as a biography of Brian Cowen.