[4] He attended University College Dublin (UCD), where he studied English literature and history and edited two student publications.
Shannon is the most westerly airport in Europe and an important fuel stop for both eastward and westward traffic.
[2] He interviewed every United States President from Harry Truman to George H. W. Bush and many Soviet leaders, including Andrey Vyshinsky and Andrei Gromyko.
A 4 am interview with George H. W. Bush on the Middle East left U.S. journalists perplexed as to why an Irish 'stringer' had managed to get hold of such a story.
[3] Quinlan taught Fidel Castro how to make an Irish coffee and was the only western journalist to have interviewed Che Guevara.
According to Quinlan, they returned that evening all wearing sprigs of shamrock, for Shannon and Limerick were preparing for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations.